 Alacris®
Announces Technology Partner Agreement with Gemplus
Technology partnership and interoperability of product
offerings increase client's choice for best-of-breed authentication and identity
assurance solutions.
Ottawa, September 13, 2004 - Alacris® Inc., a developer of
certificate management and identity assurance software products, today announced
a technology partnership with Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294
- GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), one of the world's leading providers of smart card
solutions, that offers customers a powerful turnkey smart card and certificate
management solution for enterprise Windows environments.
The technology partnership integrates Gemplus's GemSAFE smart cards with
idNexusTM for Microsoft, Alacris' flagship
product that provides integrated management of digital certificate and smart
card technologies. The combined product offerings provide a robust smart card
solution that not only brings additional security and convenience to the Windows
networking environment, but also reduces the life-cycle management costs of
supporting integrated smart card and public key infrastructure (PKI) deployments.
"We are pleased to be working with such a leading player in the smart
card industry," said Conrad Bayer, Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer, Alacris. "Extending our idNexus product to support Gemplus's
GemSAFE smart cards reinforces our strategy of delivering best-of-breed
authentication and identity assurance solutions to enterprise Windows
clients."
"The combination of Alacris' idNexus and Gemplus's GemSAFE smart card
product offerings provides a robust identity assurance management system that
enables customers to cost effectively deploy digital certificates and smart
card-based identity solutions," said Dave Ludin, Vice President of
Gemplus's ID & Security business unit in North America. "We are excited
about the opportunities this technology alliance with Alacris presents for our
customers."
The Alacris idNexus for Microsoft product simplifies digital certificate and
smart card deployment specifically for enterprise environments using Windows
2003 Certificate Services, Active Directory (AD) and Internet Information
Services (IIS).
About Alacris
About Alacris Alacris Inc. is a developer of certificate management and identity
assurance software products including idNexus, a certificate and smart card
management product for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Certificate Authority
(CA) and the Entrust CA. Alacris has also developed the Alacris Identity
Validation (OCSP) product that provides real-time certificate status
information. Global industry leaders in industries such as Pharmaceutical,
Health Care, Financial Services and Government have implemented Alacris products.
For more information about Alacris, please visit our web site at www.alacris.com.
Alacris is a registered trademark of Alacris Inc. All other products, logos
or company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
owners.
About Gemplus
Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP)
is the world's leading player in the smart card industry in both revenue and
total shipments (source: Gartner-Dataquest (2003), Frost & Sullivan,
Datamonitor.) It has the largest R&D team, unrivalled experience, and an
outstanding track record of technological innovation.
Gemplus offers an exceptional range of portable, personalized solutions that
bring security and convenience to people's lives. These include Mobile
Telecommunications, Public Telephony, Banking, Retail, Transport, Identity, WLAN,
Pay-TV, e-government, access control, and a wealth of other applications.
Gemplus' revenue in 2003 was 749 million Euros.
www.gemplus.com
For more information
Bill Tompkins
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
Alacris
Tel: (613) 230-9762 x243
Email: btompkins@alacris.com
Kerry Butler
Americas PR Manager
Gemplus
Tel: (215) 390-2840
Email: kerry.butler@gemplus.com
©2004 Gemplus. All rights reserved. Gemplus, the Gemplus logo, and
SafesITe are trademarks and service marks of Gemplus S.A. and are registered in
certain countries. Sun, Java and Java Card are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
All other trademarks and service marks, whether registered or not in specific
countries, are the property of their respective owners.
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