“As market adoption of Web services continues to grow in Asia, businesses face new management challenges,” said Min Kyo Chung, general manager of IT Strategy and Planning at Samsung SDS. “AmberPoint addresses these new requirements, enabling organizations to ensure the operational health and maximize the business utility of their distributed, loosely coupled Web services systems. After a lengthy evaluation process, we selected AmberPoint for the breadth of its offering and its ability to seamlessly integrate into any environment.”
Samsung SDS is a complete information technology services company. Employing more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Samsung SDS provides a full complement of enterprise IT software and services, including packaged solutions, consulting, integration, e-training and IT outsourcing services. The company has eight data centers worldwide, a global network across 64 countries, and employs the highest number of personnel with internationally certified IT qualifications of any Korean company.
“Samsung is a recognized leader in delivering enterprise Web services solutions to businesses in Asia,” said John Hubinger, AmberPoint’s CEO. “This agreement will extend AmberPoint’s global market penetration and gives us a strong foothold in that area. The combination of our management solutions with Samsung’s leading software and services presents businesses in Asia with an effective means of realizing the full benefits of enterprise-class Web services systems. Extending our solutions to multiple languages is a significant step forward as we continue to expand the markets we serve.”
AmberPoint is the industry-leading provider of XML and Web services management and security software. AmberPoint leads the market in the number of software licenses, paid customers and customers in production. Its partnership with Samsung SDS broadens AmberPoint’s market reach to regions not previously supported by a Web services management vendor.
About AmberPoint
AmberPoint, Inc., the leading provider of Web services management software, offers the most comprehensive solutions for making Web services production-ready, business-ready and easily manageable. With its modular, distributed architecture, AmberPoint radically simplifies the management and evolution of business solutions built on Web services. Founded in 2001, AmberPoint is privately held with venture backing from Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. AmberPoint corporate headquarters are located in Oakland, California. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510-663-6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com.
About Samsung SDS
Encompassing the collective IT knowledge of the entire Samsung Group, Samsung SDS has been providing leading-edge IT services for Samsung Group affiliates like Samsung Electronics since 1985. In addition to the Samsung Group affiliates, Samsung SDS counts as its customers most of the top 30 companies in Korea, making it the number-one ranked IT services company in South Korea, with more than 1.3 billion USD in sales in 2002, and the fourth largest in the Asia Pacific region. The company’s business areas span the full range of enterprise IT products and services, including packaged software, consulting, business integration, data center operations, and e-training. Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, the company employs over 6,700 IT professionals, including more than 500 in overseas branches.
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