{"id":36592,"date":"2019-09-26T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T02:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=36592"},"modified":"2019-09-26T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T02:32:56","slug":"sophos-taps-wordtext-systems-to-strengthen-reach-in-phl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/09\/26\/sophos-taps-wordtext-systems-to-strengthen-reach-in-phl\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos taps Wordtext Systems to strengthen reach in Phl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sophos has appointed Wordtext Systems, Inc., (WSI) as a distributor in the Philippines. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WSI is one of the country\u2019s leading distributors\nof both hardware and software products, with a nationwide base of 2,000 dealers\nin 18 key provinces. WSI\u2019s broad network enables Sophos to expand its reach and\ngives more organizations \u2013 ranging from small- and medium-sized businesses to\nenterprises \u2013 access to its first-class security solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sumit Bansal, managing director, ASEAN, Sophos\nsaid, \u201cThe Philippines is a growing market for Sophos and we need a business\npartner that can help us quickly scale this growth. With WSI\u2019s experience in\nthe local market, excellent technical support group, aggressive sales and\nmarketing, and its professional and experienced management team, we believe it\nwill play a key role in developing our broader channel ecosystem strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oliver Co, special assistant to the president, WSI, said, \u201cSophos is the perfect security partner to supplement our\nexisting product line-up. Sophos offers best-in-class endpoint solutions as\nwell as firewall products for organizations of all sizes, and we\u2019re excited to\noffer existing WSI customers the opportunity to cross-sell and strengthen their\nIT positioning with market-leading security offerings from Sophos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sophos is the only cybersecurity vendor that adopts\na unique channel-first and channel-best business model, which involves channel\npartners in key business decisions, from product development to sales,\nmarketing and support. Sophos provides all the training and information channel\npartners need to sell and deliver Sophos solutions, so they can increase their\nprofitability and deepen their customer loyalty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSI is one of the country\u2019s leading distributors of both hardware and software products, with a nationwide base of 2,000 dealers in 18 key provinces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[206,96,4161],"class_list":["post-36592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-sophos","tag-technology","tag-wsi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}