WiniGroup wins Safenet’s best partner award

WiniGroup, a foremost Nigerian IT solution company, has bagged the 2014 edition of Safenet’s Best New Partner of the year award. The award, which is an annual event for the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, was held at Vienna, Austria, recently.

At the event, Keyon, a Swiss reseller, also walked away with the “The Best Partner of the year,” while Benelux Distribution received the “Best Distributor of the Year.” Safenet said WiniGroup, because of its committed to the development of best solutions with aggressive strategy on the e-banking sector, had resulted in significant commercial success and healthy pipeline for the current year.

According to the general manager of WiniGroup and the recipient of the award, Sam Adeyemi, “the award was a clear demonstration of SafeNet’s confidence in WiniGroup’s in-house capacity to deploy all their solutions and are currently a top leader to reckon with in the entire EMEA region.”

WiniGroup, a young and vision driven company, is highly committed in offering a wide range of IT business solutions including enterprise process planning to help organisations increase operational efficiencies and maximise growth and profits. Its risk management solutions enable customers to identify exposure to potential and prospective network threats and vulnerabilities through a proactive risk management approach.

Vice president of SafeNet, EMEAs sales and operations, Gary Clark promised that SafeNet will continue to invest in building a strong channel to support its growing customer base and enable them to develop a new protection solution. WiniGroup’s significant investments in technical expertise in year 2013 resulted in advanced capacity to manage proof of concept opportunities as well as solution implementations on behalf of SafeNet contributed to the award.

The award was dedicated to Wini Group’s partners and SafeNet Gartner Magic Quadrant leader solutions (Encryption, Strong-2-Factor Authentication and HSMs), and all those who have implemented SafeNet solutions. In the last 12 months, WiniGroup has become the preferred IT security solution company for banks and telecom companies in Nigeria partly due to the quality of its security solutions and the local technical competence of its staff. WiniGroup has assisted the Nigerian banks in their quest for PCI-DSS certification and WiniGroup’s anti-financial fraud solution has been described as second to one in Nigeria.