Glasgow 10/2/2006 3:35:21 PM
News / Business

CMI Labs plc & Netintelligence announce OEM partnership to secure mobile workers

The agreement gives CMI Labs accredited Netintelligence partner status.

Netintelligence, the web based Security Company, and CMI Labs plc, one of the UK's leading independent IT distributors, has today announced an OEM partnership agreement. The agreement gives CMI Labs accredited Netintelligence partner status and enables the company to offer Netintelligence's award winning web based security products to its reseller customer base.

The agreement gives CMI Labs accredited Netintelligence partner status and enables the company to offer Netintelligence's award winning web based security products to its reseller customer base.

CMI Labs will be offering its customers both Netintelligence's email filtering service and its ground breaking hosted 'all in one' end point service. Deployed onto every endpoint (workstation/laptop) Netintelligence combines key security features and management tools to enable businesses to enforce policies regardless of when, where or how their endpoints connect to the internet, thus reducing their risks, IT overheads and operational management costs. This product will be marketed and offered by CMI Labs as Intelligent Censor.

The Netintelligence portfolio of managed service products includes email filtering, consumer parental controls and enterprise end point security. Open architecture, allows the Netintelligence Managed Service Platform (MSP) to connect to any infrastructure, regardless of network provider, through a set of well-defined APIs (application program interface). The platforms use of industry standard web and database platforms simplifies integration with partners existing systems, including OSS, CRM and billing and customer database systems. Netintelligence provides 360 degree engineering and service support to ensure that partners can integrate the Netintelligence service offerings as seamlessly as possible.

Jamie Gallagher, Netintelligence's Head of Sales, said "We are delighted that CMI Labs has chosen to add Netintelligence's hosted enterprise end point and email filtering products to its portfolio. Both companies strongly believe that the future for the security market lies with web based services, particularly to the SME sector, and we feel that both parties will benefit greatly from this partnership."

Damian Stevens, Channel Manager for CMI Labs stated: " We are excited by this opportunity to offer Netintelligence products to our customers, as we believe that they provide us with an extremely cost effective solution that will address and fill a growing gap in the current mobile security market - protecting and managing remote workers. The fact that we can market the products quickly and effectively as our own brand really sealed the deal for us."