Altiris Continues Worldwide Growth with Latin American Expansion to Address Increasing Customer Base.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2002 Altiris Sales, Marketing and Technical Support Now Available to Customers in Mexico, Central America Central America, narrow, southernmost region (c.202,200 sq mi/523,698 sq km) of North America, linked to South America at Colombia. It separates the Caribbean from the Pacific. , South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and the Caribbean Altiris Inc. (Nasdaq:ATRS ATRS Arkansas Teacher Retirement System ATRS Automated Transport and Retrieval System ATRS Aerial Targets Squadron ATRS Automated Trouble Reporting System ATRS Arkansas Therapeutic Recreation Society ATRS Automatic Turbine Run-up System ), a leader in systems management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning information technology, today announced continued worldwide expansion in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and the Caribbean with sales and support operations to serve the local customer base. Altiris(R) IT lifecycle management suites and solutions have been successfully implemented by Latin American customers such as General Motors of Mexico, the Methodist University Methodist University [1], known until 2006 as Methodist College, is a private college that is historically related to the North Carolina Annual Conference [2] of the United Methodist Church [3] and is located in Fayetteville, North Carolina. of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Elektra del Milenio, a retail chain of 953 appliance and furnishing stores in Mexico. Altiris now has over 20 global business partners in Latin America including HP and Unisys in addition to local systems integrators and resellers. Earlier this year, the Methodist University of Sao Paulo implemented Altiris Client Mgmt Suite(TM) to efficiently manage 1600 workstations and 26 servers on four different campuses. "Our IT staff was spending far too much time manually managing our technology park," said Dr. Davi Betts, IT director at the Methodist University of Sao Paulo. With Altiris solutions, Betts and his staff are now able to automate problem resolution, software delivery and upgrades, and asset inventory, saving them time and money. "Due to demand for our solutions, we have quickly established a notable presence in Brazil, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia and Chile, with resources or partners devoted to sales, sales support, and marketing," said Russ Warner Russ Warner was a Democratic Party Congressional candidate in the California's 26th congressional district against incumbent David Dreier. He lost the June 6 primary to Cynthia Matthews, who ran against Dreier in 2004, by almost 10% [1]. , Altiris Latin America director of sales. "Our Latin American customers are asking for increased automation of tasks that were previously handled manually. With Altiris solutions, Windows 2000 and XP migrations and automated hardware and software inventory scans can now be performed from a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. and integrated Web-console." Altiris has also begun the localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. of its IT lifecycle management products for its Latin American customers. Altiris Helpdesk Solution(TM) will soon be available in Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spanish. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner Dataquest research authored by George Shiffler, Latin American IT spending for 2002 is estimated to be $153.1 billion and annual IT spending is forecast to grow 8.7 percent in 2003 and 11.7 percent in 2004.(a) Chad Latimer, Altiris vice president of international sales and operations, said, "Altiris IT lifecycle management solutions are recognized around the world as products that can save IT departments time and money on hardware and software deployment Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use. The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. , migration and asset management. Our entrance into the Latin American market has gone well and we expect continued growth in coming years." Altiris Latin America Contact Information Please visit www.altiris.com/sales/offices/find.asp?oc=latinam for a complete list of Altiris Latin American sales contacts and business partners. About Altiris Altiris Inc. offers a full line of Web-enabled solutions that empower organizations to easily manage desktops, notebooks, handhelds and servers throughout the IT lifecycle. Altiris provides fully integrated, complete systems management solutions including deployment and migration, software operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. , inventory and asset management, and help desk management. Altiris' core technologies greatly reduce the cost and complexity of owning IT resources. For more information, visit www.altiris.com. Note on Forward-Looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. : This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including the statements regarding the localization of Altiris IT lifecycle management products for Latin America customers, the expected availability of the Helpdesk Solution product and the specified foreign language versions of the product and expected growth in the Latin American market. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including, but not limited to, difficulties in product development and localization and delays in the production and delivery of such product releases; the inaccurate assessment of, or adverse changes to, the market opportunity; the timing of product releases by the Company or its competitors; the ability of our channel partners in Latin America to market Altiris products effectively and to be qualified to provide timely and cost-effective support and service; difficulties in recruiting and retaining qualified sales personnel; risks inherent in doing business internationally; and such other risks as identified in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the period ended on June 30, 2002, and from time to time in other reports filed by Altiris with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Altiris is a registered U.S. trademark of Altiris Inc. Client Mgmt Suite and Helpdesk Solution are trademarks of Altiris Inc. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. (a) Gartner Dataquest "Gartner Dataquest Market Databook, August 2002 Update," George Shiffler, August 2002. |
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