September 27, 2011

SIOS’s “Google Apps Deployment and Migration Support Service’
Selected as “Best Service’ in Public Cloud Deployment Support Service Category of Nikkei BP’s “3rd Cloud Ranking’

SIOS Technology, Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Mr. Nobuo KITA; hereinafter referred to as SIOS; listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index, number 3744) announces that SIOS’s “Google Apps Deployment and Migration Support Service’ and “SFDC/Chatter Deployment Support Service’ were selected today as Best Services in the Public Cloud Deployment Support Service Category of the Nikkei BP (Head Office: Tokyo; President: Kohei Osada) “3rd Cloud Ranking’.

SIOS is actively engaged in providing public cloud deployment support to companies and educational institutions. The “Google Apps Deployment and Migration Support Service’ is a top industry service, with a track record of over 600,000 accounts (*1). Furthermore, the company is also dedicated to its “SFDC/Chatter (*2) Deployment Support Service’, and its “Gluegent Series’ of cloud services, such as the in-house developed Gluegent Workflow, which extend the functionality of Google Apps.

SIOS also offers one-stop system proposals, combining corporate system infrastructure construction and commissioned cloud application development.

The “3rd Cloud Ranking’ Best Services were selected based on investigations of 25 to 39 aspects of 358 cloud-related surveys, performed by administering questionnaires to 270 vendors. Specific criteria were established, with emphases on points such as “cloud identity’, “ease of migration from existing systems’, and “degree of information disclosure’. SIOS services were selected as Best Services in the Public Cloud Deployment Support Service category of the competition.

SIOS will continue to dedicate itself to providing public cloud deployment support service, focused on Google Apps, as well as expanding and newly developing cloud function extension services such as its “Gluegent Series’, as it pursues its goal of offering a wide range of rich deployment support services, responding to the rapidly growing market needs.

Details regarding the 3rd Cloud Ranking:

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20110915/368746/

SIOS holds seminars regarding the deployment and utilization of Google Apps.
(Tokyo seminar: 10/14 at Google Head Office. Kobe seminar: 10/21 at Kobe International House)
https://entry.sios.com/public/seminar?Seminar_D__P__D_seminar_category_master_id=1&start_day_start=

Details regarding the Google Apps Deployment and Migration Support Service:

http://www.sios.com/products/cloud/

*1 Total number of deployed accounts as of end of June, 2011.
*2 SFDC stands for Sales Force Dot Com. Chatter is a corporate SNS provided by SFDC.

About SIOS Technology, Inc.

Since its inception in 1997, SIOS Technology, Inc., centred around the development and application of open source software (OSS) represented by LINUX, has promoted business from OS (base software) involving Web application software and has promoted initiatives for reducing the costs associated with information systems. Furthermore, even in the expanding market of the cloud-computing field, it offers cutting-edge systems by utilizing the OSS.

Pursuing innovative software technologies and creating a presence in the global IT industry as an “influencer,’ it will continue to contribute to the development of society.

Inquiries

Inquiries regarding this article

SIOS Technology, Inc. Public Relations Department
Telephone: 03-6689-4106
E-Mail: info@sios.com

Inquiries regarding Google Apps products

SIOS Technology, Inc. System Solution Sales Division
Telephone: 03-6860-5110
URL: https://www.sios.com/products/cloud/contact/