SMS Management & Technology : & Swan Island Networks announce Australia-first partnership

SMS Management & Technology is excited to announce a joint technology partnership agreement has been recently signed to offer customisable data and security intelligence for customers in an Australian-first partnership.

The partnership between SMS and Swan Island Networks brings to Australia the TX360 Platform and TIES for Microsoft CityNext. It makes available vital technologies for both private and public sector including:

• Customisable dashboards that provide comprehensive visualisation on maps and synthesise critical security, transportation, health and other information from a variety of internal and external sources and assets.
• Social media monitoring services, providing targeted intelligence to leaders and teams about their brands, locations, individuals and topics of interest.
• Smart Alerting, including the ability to segment events to issue notices, alerts and alarms, capable of notifying key personnel in real time with text messages, emails or phone calls whenever a severe event matches the filtering settings they have selected.

The TX360 platform, which also powers TIES for Microsoft CityNext solutions for public sector customers, brings together thousands of unique data sets from disparate sources to provide agile situational intelligence capabilities for management of everyday operations or in times of crisis.

TX360 revolutionises intelligence-led protection and risk management within the enterprise. Never before has enterprise security intelligence been collected and made available on such a global scale, or applied with such precision, just where it is needed most.

The new TX360 platform is optimized to leverage the highly secure and scalable Microsoft Azure cloud and work with a wide variety of mobile devices to support large enterprises with global operations. Public sector solutions utilizing the power and capabilities of the TX360 platform are available as part of TIES for Microsoft CityNext solutions which support government leaders, safe school initiatives, disaster response teams, and other specialised functions.

"SMS is very excited to have signed our exclusive partnership with Swan Island Networks. We look forward to helping our clientele to leverage the situational intelligence tools to deliver the compelling safety and visibility benefits these tools provide", said Jason Ferguson, National Microsoft Practice Manager for SMS Management & Technology.

"TIES for Microsoft CityNext provides government leaders and emergency responders highly secure and reliable solutions to prepare their communities and protect their citizens everyday and during a crisis situation", said Nichole Whyte, Public Safety & National Security Industry Market Development Manager for Microsoft Australia.   "This state-of-the-art solution operating on the Microsoft Azure cloud in Australia can connect new and existing public and private data sources, enables cross-departmental and cross-jurisdictional collaboration, and offers emergency responders the flexibility and agility they need to do new with less-from any device, anytime, anywhere."

"We are actively working with SMS and Microsoft to help cities and enterprises become smarter, more efficient organisations and supply critical real-time information to inform, engage and protect their citizens and staff," said Reed Stager, COO of Swan Island Networks. "TIES for Microsoft CityNext, and our new TX360 platform, leverage  cloud based technology and mobile devices to provide new agile services that aggregate, filter, and share intelligence from thousands of data sources to produce real-time pictures and alerts of what is happening in their environment-reliably and cost-effectively".

TX360 and TIES for Microsoft CityNext solutions are available immediately operating on the Microsoft Azure cloud in Australia.

SMS Management & Technology is a leading professional services firm that specialises in improving operational performance and IT delivery by helping organisations better harness the power of people, processes and technologies. SMS boasts industry expertise in financial services, ICT, government, defence, health, utilities, mining, gaming and infrastructure sectors. SMS employs in excess of 1,800 professionals in offices throughout Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.

Swan Island Networks Inc. is a cloud-based information services provider specialising in agile situational intelligence and risk management solutions. The company provides highly secure SaaS services for capturing, displaying, filtering, and sharing data from thousands of sources, supporting 20% of the Fortune 100 and more than 250 enterprises. TX360 is Swan Island Networks' service optimised for global enterprises and private sector security and TIES for Microsoft CityNext is a new service optimised for the public sector and designed to support, local, state and national government's situational intelligence.