Hyderabad-based Pramati Technologies and the US-based Epicentric have formed a strategic technology and marketing partnership to promote Pramati Server as a tested J2EE application server engine for Epicentric Foundation Server (EFS), a cross-platform portal solution. Pramati is the first vendor to get J2EE 1.3 certified.

Under the one-year partnership agreement, Epicentric will certify Pramati Server as a tested and supported application server platform. Epicentric, a business portal solutions provider for Global 2000 companies, is all set to promote and re-sell Pramati Server along with EFS, creating a new channel for Pramati products and services. Epicentric has over 250 customers worldwide.

“Organisations of all sizes are seeking to unify application access and information retrieval—a need that EFS addresses by providing a cost-effective and flexible means to connect end-users to off-the-shelf products, custom and legacy applications, as well as broad internal and external content. But in an environment where every IT line item is competing for dollars, TCO becomes an increasingly important issue. Partnering with Pramati will help Epicentric set a new benchmark for price, performance and TCO, and accordingly move its software even further up on the IT implementation agenda,” said Vijay Pullar, co-founder and CTO, Pramati Technologies.

Pramati has already signed more than 40 partnerships with leading business computing firms in the US and 100 around the world since the beginning of the year.