“We bring best-in-class software products from premier global vendors to the South African market,” said Geoff Hardwick, Business Development Executive, Blue Turtle Technologies. “AmberPoint is clearly the leader in SOA Management solutions. We are seeing a dramatic increase in the adoption of SOA in our region and are pleased to be able to provide our customers with AmberPoint’s award-winning solutions.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Blue Turtle will distribute and support AmberPoint software products. Blue Turtle will deliver AmberPoint solutions to countries within the Southern African Development Community, including Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Blue Turtle currently represents a number of blue chip companies in the region such as Quest, Managed Objects, Infra, webMethods, Sonic Software and now AmberPoint.
“This agreement extends AmberPoint’s global market penetration and gives us a strong presence in Africa,” said John Hubinger, AmberPoint’s CEO. “SOA adoption is continuing its rapid growth. Blue Turtle’s distribution of AmberPoint will provide businesses in the region with the ability to more quickly realize the full benefits of implementing production-ready service-oriented systems.”
AmberPoint is the industry-leading provider of SOA visibility, management and security software. AmberPoint leads the market in the number of software licenses, paid customers and customers in production. Its partnership with Blue Turtle broadens AmberPoint’s market reach to regions not previously supported by an SOA governance vendor.
About Blue Turtle Technologies
Blue Turtle Technologies provides solutions for optimizing, enhancing and leveraging existing IT investment, and supporting the cost effective delivery of new technology initiatives. With experience from mainframe to desktop, Blue Turtle delivers solutions for the effective management of IT infrastructures employing innovative software products, backed by 'best-practice' implementation services. Blue Turtle's strategy leverages 'best-in-class' software products brought together from leading international and South African software providers to deliver compelling and cost effective technology management solutions to customers.
About AmberPoint
AmberPoint is the industry’s leading provider of SOA visibility, management and security solutions. Customers such as British Telecommunications, H&R Block, Motorola and the U.S. Department of Defense have chosen AmberPoint for its comprehensive capabilities, its non-invasive approach and its native support for Java and .NET. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com.
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