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9STAR expands its reach into Portugal with the appointment of Lisbon based IT Integration Specialist JP.IS

Announcement posted by 9STAR 07 Dec 2018

Partnership sees open-standards based SSO and IAM market leader expanding to PORTUGAL

9STAR, a rapidly growing leading provider of enterprise-grade Identity and Single Sign-On Access Management software solutions, has extended its market reach to Portugal in partnership with JP.IS Pty Limited.


The partnership with JP.IS will increase the local support for Enterprise, Education and Government customers in a rapidly growing Enterprise Identity & SSO market for the vendor. 


Vinay Kumar, Managing Director at 9STAR, said: ‘We are delighted to have appointed JP.IS for the Portgual region which allows us to fully support our customers in the region. It is key for us to ensure our regional customers are supported by a local expert team who can offer our modern, state of the art, ElasticSSO IAM & SSO software solutions as well as provide training, technical support and services in the local region and time zone.


‘Regional, world-class market leaders have been instrumental in our success across all markets, and finding an outstanding partner like JP.IS to support this outreach has been critical to our strategy. We are delighted with the regional market knowledge and outreach that JP.IS will add to our Portgual customer community.’


João Miguel Santos, Cybersecurity Business Unit Manager at JP.IS, said: ‘We are starting to see a lot of enterprises going to the cloud and starting to face the challenge of how to secure and be compliant against the risks of potential unauthorized access to sensitive data and applications. This will certainly increase the demand for solutions around the area of Identity and Access Management and, therefore, after evaluating the available technologies in this market we found 9STAR’s Elastic SSO® software solution to be an ideal new addition to our offering. Not only did we find that 9STAR had the market leading technology but also a clean channel model that invests in partners to enable joint success.’


‘9STAR’s powerful, next-generation, software solutions are Shibboleth, SAML, CAS and ADFS open standards-compliant, and are deployed on-premises or cloud.Their flagship ElasticSSO software solution is leading the industry in terms of cutting-edge innovation in federated identity security and access management. We are delighted to have 9STAR on board,” said João Miguel Santos.



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About JP.IS

JP-IS [Integrated Inspiring Solutions] is a Portuguese IT Integrator focus on the Digital Transformation of any organization by developing combined innovative solutions with value-added services, which can convert our customers’ IT infrastructures into more simplified, automated and profitable, as well as, contribute to a greater user mobility and superior experience. JP.IS, designed since the very beginning to become a reference player in the Portuguese market, is specialized in the areas of Digital Cybersecurity, Digital Communications and Digital Datacentre infrastructures. Part of JP Group, which has already an accumulated experience of more than 28 years in IT market, namely designing and marketing technology solutions to the Education market with presence in more than 70 countries across 5 continents. http://jpis.pt/

 

 

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                  About 9STAR

9STAR is a rapidly growing leading provider of enterprise-grade Identity and Access Management software solutions. The software solutions are designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), and IT Managers to rapidly provision and manage IDaaS (Identity as a Service) in the cloud or on-premises. 9STAR’s software solutions are widely deployed in Education, Non-Profit, Public Sector and mid/large Enterprise markets. The company continues to lead in the marketplace by adopting open-standards in its product offerings, as well as partnering with leading MSPs and Technology Solution Providers around the world for delivering turnkey solutions and support to customers. https://9starinc.com.