NetIQ Partners with Altran in Norway

HOUSTON, Aug. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NetIQ today announced its partnership with Altran, a global leader in innovation and high-tech engineering consulting. In this new partnership, Altran will offer NetIQ's Identity and Access Management and Security products along with their expertise across these solutions to help companies in Norway better manage organizational risk, meet compliance and respond more quickly to dynamic business demands.

The enforcement of proper access is essential to managing the increasing security threats stemming from inside and outside of the enterprise. The challenge is how to implement identity, access and security controls that accommodate an ever-changing device landscape, cloud, and the myriad of enterprise applications that workers require to be productive. Businesses need a trusted partner with extensive experience across Identity, Access Management and Security solutions to automate and simplify providing secure access to information and to mitigate business risk in an evolving threat landscape.

"Our customers are facing a variety of security challenges stemming from cloud, BYOD, compliance requirements and more and are looking to Altran to help them solve those challenges with the proven methodologies and technologies," said Thomas Ingebretsen, Regional Director, Altran. "NetIQ is a market leader and trusted brand with a proven record of delivering world-class technologies with which we are proud to partner. The combination of our market presence and expertise with NetIQ's technologies uniquely positions us to provide the most comprehensive solutions to market."

Altran has a long-standing history of working with organizations across many industries in which the complexities of managing identity, access and security across cloud-based applications and mobile continues to grow. Their commitment to help businesses successfully implement new technologies and provide ongoing program support helps organizations remain at the forefront by developing new services.

NetIQ offers the identity and access management, and security technology required to manage organizational risk and protect information assets from malicious activities and threats. By managing privileged user activity and monitoring and enforcing access controls, NetIQ solutions enable organizations to quickly analyze security events and respond decisively to threats across local, mobile and cloud environments.   

"Our partners continue to be essential to the success of our business, and we are proud to be collaborating with Altran, who is on the cutting-edge of working with enterprises in Norway where BYOD and cloud are in the mainstream." said Michel van der Laan, Regional Director EMEA North. "Working with an experienced partner like Altran underscores our continued commitment to deliver the best solutions in Identity, Access Management and Security to growth markets like Norway.  Together, we are focused to help businesses manage their IT complexity and reduce their organizational risk."

About Altran
As global leader in innovation and high-tech engineering consulting, Altran accompanies its clients in the creation and development of their new products and services. Altran's Innovation Makers have been providing Employees of the Altran groupservices for thirty years to key players in the Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, Railways, Finance, Healthcare and Telecoms sectors. Covering every stage of project development from strategic planning to manufacturing, Altran's offers capitalise on the Group's technological know-how in four key areas: Lifecycle Experience, Mechanical Engineering, Intelligent Systems and IT Systems. In 2012, the Group generated revenues of €1,456m. Altran now has a staff of 20,000 employees in more than 20 countries.  http://www.altran.com

About NetIQ
NetIQ is a global, enterprise software company with a relentless focus on customer success. Our portfolio includes scalable, automated solutions for Identity, Security, Access, Governance, Systems and Application, Service, and Workload Management that help organizations securely deliver, measure and manage computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. For more information, contact us.

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