ILS Technology News

02/02/2009 ILS Technology Announces New Global-Channel Program, Enabling Partners To Resell deviceWISE Products and Virtual Service Infrastructure Services

Program Designed to Help Companies Improve Equipment Effectiveness,
And Increase Revenue Stream for Channel Partners

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Feb. 2, 2009 - ILS Technology, LLC, an industry leader in enabling intelligence through connectivity, today announced a new global-channel program to allow more partners worldwide to resell its award-winning deviceWISE products as well as the company's new Virtual Service Infrastructure (VSI) remote-services offerings.

The new program builds on the success that large and small resellers and system integrators have demonstrated by solving their customers' device-to-enterprise challenges with deviceWISE, and their remote-management challenges with VSI.
By providing intelligent, secure and vendor-neutral connectivity between the plant floor and enterprise, the deviceWISE software framework enables manufacturers to make business decisions based on real-time data.

The global-channel program, which begins immediately, will benefit end customers around the world and will allow both suppliers and integrators to increase their overall value proposition throughout the entire project lifecycle, including the solution-design, delivery and support phases. ILS Technology will support its channel program partners with training, certification, marketing collateral and remote support.

"Improving overall operational efficiency is a top priority for enterprises, especially in these challenging economic times," said Fred Yentz, president and CEO of ILS Technology. "This initiative will allow them to improve equipment effectiveness and other key business metrics, while creating new revenue streams for our valued channel partners."

The expanded channel-partner network also will extend the company's regional support and services offerings to more customers, while supporting the global rollout of ILS Technology's deviceWISE Enterprise Edition and bringing VSI to more service providers and companies around the world.

"Systems integrators are playing an ever-increasing and important role for manufacturers, many of whom no longer have the in-house expertise to implement new projects," said Craig Resnick, research director, ARC Advisory Group. "Systems integrators have the single-source capability to carry out all stages of a project from planning to start-up, and can support several projects simultaneously and often work as an extension of a manufacturer's staff. That is why ILS Technology's new global-channel program will enable them to maximize the operational efficiency that deviceWISE and VSI deliver to manufacturers, while simultaneously enhancing their own value proposition in an ultra-competitive market during a very turbulent global economy."

VSI, which is among the assets that ILS Technology recently acquired from ComBrio Inc., is the latest addition to the deviceWISE portfolio. It provides simple, secure monitoring and access to a wide variety of information technology devices and systems. It significantly strengthens a company's ability to provide seamless communication between intelligent devices in the plant and enterprise applications. The VSI capability also enhances ILS Technology's ability to provide efficient and secure transport of data between diversely located support centers without requiring dedicated connections or complex VPNs.

System integrators and resellers who are interested in participating in the new ILS Technology global-channel program, can request additional information at http://www.ilstechnology.com/partners.