Gemalto Recognizes APAC Partners at Annual Cipher Partner Summit

HONG KONG, May 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Gemalto announced its 2014 APAC Annual Cipher Partner Award winners at an awards ceremony last night in Phuket, Thailand. In recognition of the contributions and support by Gemalto's partners, six awards were presented, including "New Partner of the Year", "Rising Star of the Year", "Solution Partner of the Year", "Top Contributor of the Year", "Cipher Partner of the Year" and "Marketing Excellence Award".

Gemalto strengthened its network of APAC channel partners focused on data security solutions for enterprises. "Through the acquisition of SafeNet, Gemalto has accelerated its portfolio of data security solutions for the enterprises, allowing the customer base to protect its data assets that may reside in hybrid environments of physical and virtualized assets. We now have the opportunity to offer a stronger combined portfolio, enabling more growth opportunities for Gemalto and our partners," said Rana Gupta, Vice President of APAC Sales for Identity and Data Protection at Gemalto.

New Partner of the Year

Spectrum BD (Bangladesh) and eSECURE Technology (Taiwan) received the New Partner of the Year award for the significant projects they brought to Gemalto. Spectrum BD sold a Hardware Security Module (HSM) solution to the Central Bank in Bangladesh for its Real Time Gross Settlement project, and eSECURE Technology brought Gemalto an authentication project for a major bank in Taiwan last year.

Rising Star of the Year

Macnica Networks Corps. (Japan), PRONEW Technologies Co., Ltd. (Taiwan) and Stream I.T. Consulting Ltd. (Thailand) were recognized with the "Rising Star of the Year" award due to the significant increase in revenue contributions by these partners.

Solution Partner of the Year

ADOST (South Korea) and Channel Solutions Inc. (Philippines) were recognized with the "Solution Partner of the Year" award. ADOST was nominated for the best (HSM) application in 2014 and by winning most number of contracts, all with major banks and enterprises. Channel Solutions Inc. was recognized for its pioneering work in the region delivering multi-factor authentication solutions to banks.

Top Contributor of the Year

The "Top Contributor of the Year" award was given to Macnica Networks Corp. (Japan), Transition Systems (India) and Nera Telecommunications Ltd. (Singapore) for generating the most partner revenue in 2014.

Cipher Partner of the Year

The "Cipher Partner of the Year" went to Transition Systems (India), Bangkok Systems & Software Company Limited (Thailand) and Paysecure Technology Co Ltd., (Taiwan) as they showed strong adoption of the partner enablement programs offered through the Cipher Partner Program.

Marketing Excellence Award

Finally, Ascentech K.K. (Japan) and Transition Systems (Indonesia) took home the "Marketing Excellence Award". The former bagged this award by prominently showcasing Gemalto's Identity and Data Protection products at its physical and online estates to help drive the demand generation while the latter actively participated in the lead generation initiatives by running the most number of marketing campaigns in 2014. 

"We value our strategic relationships with our partners enormously for the support they give us in growing our customer relationships. Together, we can deliver a better overall quality of solutions and service and thus improve their data security strategies. Congratulations to all of our partner award winners, and we hope that our successful partnerships continue for a long time to come," added Gupta.

About Gemalto

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security, with 2014 annual revenues of EUR2.5 billion and blue-chip customers in over 180 countries.

Gemalto helps people trust one another in an increasingly connected digital world. Billions of people want better lifestyles, smarter living environments, and the freedom to communicate, shop, travel, bank, entertain and work -- anytime, everywhere -- in ways that are enjoyable and safe. In this fast moving mobile and digital environment, we enable companies and administrations to offer a wide range of trusted and convenient services by securing financial transactions, mobile services, public and private clouds, eHealthcare systems, access to eGovernment services, the Internet and internet-of-things and transport ticketing systems.

Gemalto's unique technology portfolio - from advanced cryptographic software embedded in a variety of familiar objects, to highly robust and scalable back-office platforms for authentication, encryption and digital credential management - is delivered by our world-class service teams. Our 14,000 employees operate out of 99 offices, 34 personalization and data centers, and 24 research and software development centers located in 46 countries.

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