Protexis Announces Rapid Adoption of Services: Over 3000 Software Titles Signed Up for Services, Showing 300% Year-over-Year Growth
May 16, 2006, Vancouver, BC – Protexis Inc., provider of e-commerce and digital rights management (DRM) hosted services for software publishers, today announced that it has seen a significant increase in the adoption of its services since April 2005. In fact, the number of products signed up for services with Protexis increased by more than 300% year-over-year, to total over 3,000 products today.
Protexis services reduce the complexity that software organizations often face when choosing to participate in online distribution. With integrated product activation, e-commerce, trial enablement and customer registration, Protexis offers a full suite of channel-neutral services to enable publishers of software applications to distribute their products online.
"We see this growth in the adoption of our services as validation that there is a real need in the market for a simple and efficient way to securely distribute software titles online, and Protexis has succeeded in providing the tools necessary to meet this need," said Karl Hirsch, president and chief executive officer of Protexis.
"It's a foregone conclusion that there is a digital transformation underway today in the software industry. We're moving from shipping boxes to shipping bits, using the internet as a primary distribution channel. And Protexis is providing services that are based on our founding and patented product activation technology, offering a swift and secure manner for publishers to sell their products through any channel," Hirsch added.
With traditional barriers to online distribution, such as bandwidth, credit card fraud and suitable copy protection methods, being minimized or eliminated, all software publishers have the opportunity to participate in the online sale and distribution of their products. Further, with recent advancements by Protexis and their channel partners, the full suite of publisher services have become fully web-enabled to further increase the efficiency with which these services can be implemented.
About Protexis
Protexis provides efficient global infrastructure for the protection and sale of software, including product activation technology and integrated e-commerce services. Protexis serves over 1,500 software publisher customers today, including leading publishers such as DivX Networks, Enterbrain, Riverdeep Inc. and Sage Technologies. Protexis holds a total of three issued and 12 pending United States and international patents, and continues to focus on increasing its portfolio of intellectual property. Protexis enables the secure digital sale of millions of copies of software worldwide and is privately-held, with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia and offices in Seattle, Washington. For more information, please visit www.protexis.com.
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Erin Kampf
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Protexis Inc.
