PGP Corporation Awarded 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and Five-Star Partner Rating

MENLO PARK, Calif., March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in trusted data protection, today announced it has been recognized for the third year in a row by Everything Channel as one of North America's top information technology (IT) vendors for its PGP® Global Partner Program.  Additionally, the PGP® Global Partner Program was recognized with a five-star rating representative of an exceptional program.

The PGP Corporation partner program was awarded a Five-Star recognition in the small company category in Everything Channel's 16th annual 2010 Partner Program Guide (PPG), acknowledging its commitment and strength of its programs for reseller partners, which include IT integrators, technology solution providers and consultants.

PGP Corporation makes business growth possible through the company's comprehensive partnership approach that combines strategic guidance, business-building resources and targeted services that help grow partners' businesses more quickly and cost effectively. PGP Corporation's comprehensive suite of services enhances and extends partner capabilities with complete data protection solutions and services that give them a competitive edge.

The PGP® Global Partner Program includes Bronze, Silver, Gold and Distribution Partner levels and helps partners:

• Deliver greater customer value through a wide range of technical, educational and training offerings
• Create more opportunity through marketing, sales and lead generation materials
• Close more deals through sales and technical training and resources

Research for the 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and the Five-Star Partner Program rating was conducted by Everything Channel's research department. Everything Channel analyzed 130 vendor programs rating vendors' responses to in-depth questions about their partner programs in the five elements of sales support, partner profitability, partner ecosystem development/management, partner communication/marketing, and demand generation. To ensure fair comparisons, companies were placed in one of four categories based on company size (Enterprise, Midsize, Small and Emerging).  Questions from each section were scored individually and weighted appropriately.  The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes the elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs. The 5-Star rating is bestowed on programs whose overall rating is among the elite based on company size.

"We are pleased to deliver to the Channel an exclusive list of the leading vendor channel programs with details about key technologies, program opportunities, and information on the hottest new program offerings," said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. "The quality of a technology vendor's partner program determines how profitable its partners will be.  For their commitment to their business partners and their efforts to build quality programs, we congratulate those recognized as this year's Five-Star Partner Program winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the channel."

"PGP Corporation has strengthened its commitment to partner resources and profitability, and we are honored to once again earn this year's Five-Star Partner program award rating," said Lee Finck, Vice President, Worldwide Channels, PGP Corporation.  "It is extremely rewarding to see our enablement, demand generation and promotions gain traction with partners and garner the attention of industry influencers like Everything Channel.  We would like to thank our channel partners for their continued focus on PGP® products and services."

The PPG list and those companies recognized as five-star will appear in the March 29 issue of CRN magazine and online at www.Channelweb.com.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology marketing and sales solutions company.  Through its "Complete Technology Channel Solution," Everything Channel offers the right business tools to accelerate technology sales.  From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database.  Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to the sellers of technology to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.

About PGP Corporation

PGP Corporation is a global leader in email and data encryption software. Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the PGP® Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated applications for enterprise data security. PGP® platform-enabled applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging, smartphones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, and backups.

PGP® solutions are used by more than 110,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 87 percent of the Fortune® 100, 73 percent of the Fortune® Global 100, 80 percent of the German DAX index, and 60 percent of the U.K. FTSE 100 Index. As a result, PGP Corporation has earned a global reputation for innovative, standards-based, and trusted solutions. PGP solutions help protect confidential information, secure customer data, achieve regulatory and audit compliance, and safeguard companies' brands and reputations. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com.

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