MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & PRETORIA, South Africa--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ESP (Environmental Software Providers) of Mountain View, California, and IST Data, of Pretoria, South Africa, announced today that they have formed a partnership to bring ESP's enterprise environmental information management solutions to Africa. Under the new partnership, IST will market, sell and deploy ESP's industry-leading opsEnvironmental and ecoAsset Manager software suites across Africa. The new arrangement enhances ESP's growing presence in Africa, while giving IST Data the ability to offer its customers a full suite of enterprise sustainability information management solutions.

Under the new partnership, IST will serve as a Value Added Reseller of the ESP product suite and will also provide installation and implementation services as well as local training and ongoing after-sales support in the region.

"ESP is pleased to be joining forces with IST, a company with an impressive track record of delivering best in class enterprise information technology products and services to Africa's energy, manufacturing, and telecommunications sectors," said Frank Geisler, Vice President, EMEA Sales, at ESP. "We believe that under this partnership, our products have enormous potential for adoption in the growing African environmental information management solutions market."

Danie van Vuuren, Business Development Manager for IST Data said, "At IST Data we understand the unique challenges of the African continent and together with ESP we will continue to build on our track record to deliver world-class services and solutions. We are committed to helping clients to meet SHE and Sustainability reporting and goals from the facility to the global organization, in line with government and environmental legislation."

ESP's enterprise environmental information management solutions are deployed by companies all over the world to support internal sustainability goals and regulatory agency requirements, as well as to manage emissions allowance portfolios.

About ESP

ESP provides software solutions for managing environmental performance and risk from the facility level to the global enterprise level. Since 1992, ESP software has been helping companies track compliance, improve financial performance and manage corporate sustainability programs. ESP software is currently used to manage environmental data in more than ten thousand facilities, spanning 39 countries. It is also widely used to address both the compliance and financial aspects of emissions trading programs. For more information about ESP, please visit www.esp-net.com.

About IST Data

IST Data is a leading black empowered Engineering Information company, that has been supplying competitive, innovative engineering information solutions to customers throughout Africa and the Middle East for the past 15 years. Being the leader in Strategic Asset and Service Management to industries and organisations, its expertise includes fixed and mobile telecommunications networks and mobile workforce management solutions. IST Data now also provides software solutions for managing environmental compliance and emissions trading programs. For more information, please visit www.istltd.com

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