Partnership Matches Award-Winning Technological Expertise With Region's Strongest Distribution Channel
Dubai November 20, 2006. Trendium, Inc., the leading global provider of service assurance and performance management software and services, and NavLink, a world-renowned managed service provider delivering data center managed hosting, enterprise networking and Internet technology solutions, today announced that NavLink will market and deliver services from the Trendium Service Bureau to companies, enterprises and network service providers throughout the Middle East.
The NavLink/Trendium partnership melds technological innovation with a proven, extensive distribution channel. Businesses throughout the Middle East will now have access to Trendium's award-winning technology inherent in InfraSight, BroadSight and SLA Manager, services that comprise the Trendium Service Bureau. NavLink, whose customers include MTC-Vodafone Bahrain, Batelco Bahrain, Qatar Telecom, and Etisalat U.A.E., is extremely well positioned to deliver these services as a result of its deep local presence, reach and reputation.
Also of note, is that this partnership addresses regional demand for managed services. According to industry analysts such as Gartner, IT service markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa returned to growth in 2004, with the latest forecast indicating that IT services in EMEA will grow from 165.4 billion euros in 2004 to 195.8 billion euros in 2009.
"With broadband proliferation increasing throughout the Middle East, coupled with the growing organizational dependence on information technology, it is imperative that companies take every possible step to protect their business, and ensure the highest-level customer experience.
By partnering with a regionally established distribution powerhouse, integrator and service provider such as NavLink, we are able to provide this growing market with the advanced services they need at a fraction of the overall cost of ownership," said Hanafy Meleis, president and CEO Trendium Inc.
"The Trendium Service Bureau represents the natural progression of our business. For years, Fortune 500 companies worldwide have looked to Trendium to optimize and assure service objectives for DSL (and other) providers, monitor the user experience, and meet SLA expectations. Through our Service Bureau, we can offer specific functionality inherent in our existing solutions, in addition to advanced security information monitoring resources, packaged as extremely cost-effective services."
"Trendium's Service Bureau addresses today's business climate, in which spending indicates a growing confidence in managed services' security, reliability and effectiveness," said Laurent Delifer, co-president and COO, NavLink. "With Trendium as our partner, we are able to deliver on the promise of accelerated deployment and potential cost savings; our decision was based on InfraSight's and BroadSight's unique ability to deliver powerful IT infrastructure health and traffic forensics for the enterprise, and enable service providers to achieve maximum service revenue, respectively."
A state-of-the-art management service, InfraSight offers a blend of proven, real-time data collection and trend performance analysis, in addition to security insights, event monitoring and network traffic predictive alerts - solutions critical to maintaining a healthy enterprise. BroadSight is an end-to-end assurance management service for DSL broadband service providers that detects and corrects DSL-related service quality issues impacting every aspect of the customer experience. The SLA Manager will provide a portfolio of business related SLA / SLO service assurance for ethernet, triple play, MPLS, WIMAX and other managed services.
NavLink and Trendium are participating in this year's GULFCOMMS 2006, taking place November 18-22, at the Dubai Convention Center in conjunction with GITEX.
For additional information on Trendium, Trendium Service Bureau, please contact Tom Leh, at tleh@trendium.com/1-954-835-9500, or visit: www.trendium.com. For Information on NavLink, please contact Roger Thodenius at roger.thodenius@navlink.com / +33 4 97 23 22 60 or visit www.navlink.com
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ABOUT NAVLINK
NavLink (www.navlink.com) is a system and network integrator and managed service provider, operating in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Founded in December 1996, NavLink achieved a leadership position in high-end IP consulting, system integration, enterprise networking services, enterprise hosting and managed services serving telecommunications organizations, as well as multinational corporations. NavLink operates a carrier class data center in Nice, France part of AT&T's 30 global data centers. NavLink is a strategic partner of AT&T, and acts as AT&T's service delivery arm for enterprise customers in the Middle East and Africa
ABOUT TRENDIUM, INC.
Founded in 1999, Trendium, Inc., is the leading global provider of service intelligence and performance management software and services currently deployed at Fortune 500 companies and service providers worldwide. Trendium's award-winning solutions portfolio includes its ServicePATH Service Intelligence System and PerforMAX Performance Management System. With Trendium service intelligence, service providers and enterprises are able to create new revenue streams, identify unused service capacity and rapidly prototype and deliver high-margin, quality-assured services. Trendium's Service Bureau is the company's subscription-based "software as a service" line of business. Included in the Service Bureau are BroadSight, InfraSight and SLA Manager, which, through their respective functionalities, optimize and assure service objectives for DSL providers, monitor IT traffic performance management, and meet SLA expectations. Through its Service Bureau, Trendium is able to offer specific functionality inherent in its existing solutions, in addition to advanced security information monitoring innovation, packaged as extremely cost-effective services.
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