Recently TAIT and Netcore jointly organised an SI forum on the latest in the e-mail security solutions. The forum highlighted the problems of spam, viruses, spyware and other related problems in organisations and how making e-mail secure is a priority for service providers.

There were representatives from 65 companies attending the event. Building channel relationships has been on top of Netcore's business strategy. Netcore is looking at more seminars of these kinds as a move to spread awareness about the offerings that they have. Along with the speakers from Netcore of how to provide the best service model, the forum also saw some prominent customers sharing their experiences.

Godrej Infotech announced its partnership with Netcore, at the event, for providing e-mail security (Anti-Spam / Anti-Virus) solutions to Godrej and Boyce. Kalpit Jain, Business Head, Netcore said, “This relationship is a big boost for Netcore who has been focusing on building channel relationships through organisations like TAIT. Extensive reporting and co-branding features of Emergic Clean Mail (ECM) has been the driving factors in Godrej's evaluation process.”

As a part of the event Netcore, announced free ECM service for all the attending companies for a year with unlimited user licences. ECM is a fully managed security facility that sits between customers trusted networks and other networks monitoring and filtering e-mail traffic to protect organisations from virus attacks, spam and wasted bandwidth.

While explaining the same, Jain emphasised that the channels should try out the service themselves before offering it to clients. Netcore offered zero upfront investment for signing up and projected ECM as a solution that needs no installation or after sales support and has a quicker and easier sales cycle. Netcore offers a profit margin anything above 20 going up to 45 percent and recurring revenue for the resellers. It also provides co-branding options to its partners.

Sushil Raut, Head of Operations and Technology, Godrej Infotech, while speaking at the forum appreciated Netcore's technical support and termed the solution as flexible product and as adaptive to customer needs. “The products and services by Netcore fulfill the need of small and medium size to large enterprises. Godrej Infotech is a software organisation entering into enterprise security solutions We are partnering with various companies for Gateway level security products. Since we were sure that their products and services would fulfill our requirements, we chose Netcore," says Raut.

Netcore has been focusing on strengthening its channel base in India and abroad. With a target set for 400-500 partners in the country by 2005-06, the company is aggressively pushing its product portfolio through associations such as TAIT. Headquartered in Mumbai, it has a sales office in Chennai also. Netcore is looking forward to add more partners from different zones and is planning to come up with a sales and development centre in Pune soon.