Pivotal IT and eZ Systems Create Strategic Partnership
HERNDON, VA, May 11, 2010 -- Pivotal Information Technology (Pivotal IT), a leading technology consulting and service company today announced that it has formalized its agreement with eZ Systems (eZ), the global company that provides solutions for the Content Management Ecosystem. The agreement brings together the world's largest open source Web Content Management companies product of eZ Publish Premium, and Pivotal IT technology consulting and program management services to form a value offering for customers.
eZ Systems, a European company based in Norway, continues to forge its way into North America by offering customers a wide variety of Enterprise CMS solutions that include, e-Commerce, Community Portal, Intranet, and Mobile in the commercial and federal markets. Pivotal, a technology solution provider in web solutions, back office, operations and emerging technology continues to build its client base. In the partnership, Pivotal will manage the requirements, program management and delivery that will help drive new customer opportunities and revenue for their respective clients. Ez Systems offers world class open source products with premium subscriptions for business customers.
Another pillar in the agreement are for Pivotal to assist eZ expand it's footprint in North America, and for eZ to drive business development for Pivotal in Europe. "We couldn't be more excited about how these product and services compliment each other and will drive value to customers" said Darren Feeley, chief executive officer at Pivotal. "eZ and Pivotal have similar philosophies when it comes to customers, our business, and long term goals".
eZ CEO Cristoph Rau said "eZ Systems successful go-to-market strategy is based on a strong international network of partners. We are excited to expand our market presence in the U.S. with a strong and competent partner like Pivotal." Todd McElroy, eZ Managing Director of the Americas, said "The combination of Pivotal and eZ systems is bringing to the market a world class combination of enterprise web content management and the experienced consulting services to maximize the vision to change organization's businesses".
About Pivotal Information Technology
A leader in the technology consulting industry, Pivotal provides solutions sets for internet facing platforms, back office systems, emerging technologies and operations. Delivering superior return on investment to clients since 2007, Pivotal works across verticals in healthcare, education, media, technology, energy and financial services. Pivotal: Where business meets technology.
About eZ Publish
eZ Publish is an award-winning enterprise-grade Open Source Web Content Management platform that help businesses publish any type of information, anywhere by anyone. Powering more than 200 000 websites globally, eZ Publish is used for web publishing, media portals, intranets and e-commerce solutions. The powerful content engine, digital media functionality and ease of use has made eZ Publish the preferred choice of the media industry. A preference shared by thousands of multinational corporations, ministries and top educational institutions around the world. This proven enterprise-grade Web Content Management System comes with both a commercially supported Premium version and a free Open Source version.
About eZ
Founded in 1999, eZ Systems is the world's largest Open Source Content Management software company with offices in the US, Japan, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Norway. eZ Systems is the creators of eZ Publish, the award winning enterprise-grade Open Source Web Content Management Platform, which is used by more than 200 000 websites in more than 160 countries. As the open source alternative for top tier web content management, customers include United States Navy and French Ministry of Defense, Harvard and MIT, Lagardere group, CNBC and Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, Restek, Dairy Farmers of Canada, T-Mobile, France Telecom and Orange, Christian Science Monitor, Neustar and Oslo Stock Exchange.
