fluid Operations and .eriksterck IT-SERVICE-EXPERTS close sales partnership

Dec. 5, 2013 - PRLog -- Walldorf/Baden, Germany (December 5, 2013) – fluid Operations, leading provider of cloud and data management solutions based on semantic technologies, and .eriksterck IT-SERVICE-EXPERTS, a competent and experienced consulting firm located in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, today announced that they have entered a sales partnership. The partner agreement will see the consulting firm distribute fluid Operations’ product portfolio in the areas of data center and Big Data management effective immediately.

.eriksterck IT-SERVICE-EXPERTS covers the complete value chain for data center solutions, ranging from hardware solutions, to software solutions, to services. The company offers consulting and distribution services for managed services as well as cloud, hosting and outsourcing offerings. Erik Sterck, Managing Director and owner of the company, brings in over 15 years of experience in sales and consulting in the IT market.

“We look forward to a very successful partnership with Mr. Sterck and his company. Mr. Sterck has a vast experience in the IT market and we are convinced that he can very selectively position our solutions, and that he will help us expand our customer base and deliver sustainable and high-quality IT solutions”, said Thomas Grauer, SVP Global Sales & Marketing at fluid Operations.

“The IT industry is very dynamic and we help customers to stay on the cutting edge of technology. Our customers are always asking for innovative and agile solutions for monitoring and managing complex data center environments. fluid Operations provides a comprehensive, customizable platform allowing companies to not only orchestrate their entire IT environment, but also extract value out of the large amounts of data they are faced with. I am convinced that this platform will deliver great benefits to our customers”, added Erik Sterck, Managing Director at .eriksterck IT-SERVICE-EXPERTS.

About fluid Operations

fluid Operations™ (fluidOps), an innovative software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, provides an open platform which allows for the semantic integration of structured and unstructured data across business and IT stacks and delivers the flexibility needed to optimize information management, data integration, self-service IT, IT operations, and IT service management. This basis is leveraged to deliver our cutting-edge infrastructure and cloud monitoring, management and orchestration solution, the eCloudManager™, as well as the Information Workbench™, a cloud-based Linked Data and Big Data management platform. Using a rich Solution Development Kit, partners and customers can extend the platform and build new solutions and apps for different industries and sectors.

Gartner Analysts named fluidOps “Cool Vendor in the SAP Ecosystem” in 2010. In 2012, fluid Operations won the “Best in Cloud” Award in the category “Infrastructure as a Service – Private Cloud”. fluidOps’ Conference Explorer app won the Linked Data-a-Thon at the 2011 International Semantic Web Conference and was placed in the WWW 2012 Metadata Challenge.

For more information about fluidOps and its products and solutions please visit www.fluidOps.com

About .eriksterck IT-SERVICE-EXPERTS

.eriksterck IT-SERVICE-EXPERTS, a consulting firm from Baden-Württemberg, Germany, delivers the following services to its customers:
- Coverage of the entire value chain for data center solutions
- Demand analysis of IT data centers
- Development of customized and unique IT solutions
- Competitive conditions and investment
- Highly professional and timely implementation
- Education / Training / Consulting
- Management of operational services and SLAs
- Integrated consulting and competitive bid proposal management for cloud-based services such as Data Protection as a Service or Infrastructure as a Service

For more information about .eriksterck IT-SERVICE-EXPERTS please visit www.eriksterck.de

Press contact
Irina Schmidt, phone: +49 6227 3580 87-31,  email: press@fluidops.com,
fluid Operations AG, Altrottstr. 31, 69190 Walldorf, Germany
www.fluidOps.com

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