The two organizations collaborate to strengthen 1E’s local presence

Paris, FRANCE – 14 March 2012 – 1E, the global leader in IT Efficiency software and Osiatis, the leading provider of infrastructure services, today announced their collaboration in France.

Inefficiency and waste in IT represent a major challenge for CIOs today. 1E launched into the French market to help local customers identify waste in IT, help remove it and improve IT efficiency.

“We are proud to partner with Osiatis to help French organizations tackle the problem of IT waste. Osiatis brings a wealth of expertise around Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and its extensive network, which make it an ideal, value-add partner. Our two companies are Microsoft Gold partners, which makes our skill-sets very complementary," says Christian Laloy, Sales Director, France at 1E.

Osiatis now offers 1E’s five IT Efficiency solutions: NightWatchman® Enterprise, the PC power management market leader ; NightWatchman® Server Edition, which maximises server efficiency ; Nomad Enterprise®, the WAN optimization technology ; Shopping™, the app store for the enterprise and AppClarity®, which identifies, quantifies, reclaims and recycles unused software.

"We bring value to our customers by completing our Microsoft System Center service offering with 1E’s solutions. Faced with the current economic climate and the pressure to maximize IT investments, our customers can make significant savings and obtain ROI between six and nine months," says Jean-Luc Dagron, Infrastructure Director, Consulting & Cloud Services at Osiatis. "We are delighted to be able to offer our customers a way to get more from their investments in IT."

"Partnership is at the heart of Microsoft's business model. The success of our products and services relies on our partner ecosystem," said Jean-Philippe Dupuich, Product Manager, System Center at Microsoft France. "Together, Osiatis and 1E improve IT efficiency for our joint customers by strengthening the capabilities of Configuration Manager, including the hotly anticipated System Center 2012. This is a fine example of the best practice collaboration that goes on between two Microsoft Gold Partners. "

About Osiatis
Osiatis, one of the main French IT services companies, is recognised as a leader in infrastructure services: architecture consulting, engineering tools and Cloud transformation, production and work environment outsourcing, critical systems and networks maintenance.  In the application services market, the Group also addresses the specialised segment of infrastructure-related solutions: portals, collaboration, roaming, BI, etc. The Group employs a workforce of more than 3,500 and is established in France, Austria, the Benelux countries, Spain and Brazil. www.osiatis.fr

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