Nemertes Impact Analysis

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Extending Secure Content Delivery into UC and Business Application 

Privately held Thru, enhances secure content delivery, both on-premise and
cloud-based delivery with Thru Secure 7.5, a web-services based solution. The
need for secure content delivery accelerates as organizations extend stand-alone
applications (email and ftp) to collaboration and business applications, using
SOA as a common framework. This shift is underscored by 58.9% of participants in
the Nemertes' Service Oriented Architectures and Applications benchmark,
planning to leverage collaboration, with business applications, using SOA.

A web-services based secure content delivery platform is in the right spot to
support this shift securely.

Impacts:

Enterprises: Assess early the security implications of extending messaging
and file transfer to collaboration and business applications.

Vendors: Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT),
ShoreTel (NASDAQ:SHOR) and privately held Avaya, should consider secure content
delivery a logical value-add.

Investors: This space borders on two hot areas: DRM and DLP; watch privately
held One-to-One Service, Sigaba, Thru and Tumbleweed.

Ted Ritter, Research Analyst

http://www.nemertes.com/benchmarks/nemertes_benchmark_softwareoriented_architectures_and_applications

http://www.thruinc.com/docs/pr_Thru75.asp