After decades of experience in the direct marketing call center industry, Steven Idelman recognized early the need to protect big data as well as the vital and sensitive information held by large enterprises.
In 2000, he teamed up with then Chief Technology Officer (now President) Mike Hrabik, Chief Operating Officer Sheri Idelman and other partners to form Solutionary Inc., which provides managed security services (MSS) and security consulting services to large and global enterprises as well as to mid-sized from its headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.
Thanks to its patented ActiveGuard security services and analytics platform, among others, Solutionary has won several industry-wide awards and built its reputation as a leading MSS provider.
“For years, IT has been a North American-driven industry. But as the market for security services globalized, Solutionary had a fundamental choice to make as a company. It was time for us to go global,” said chief executive officer Idelman.
With its unmatched global reach and immense research capabilities, Japanese telecom giant NTT successfully edged out other global rivals in acquiring Solutionary in August 2012.
“NTT’s ability to bring advanced analytics and advanced services to the world was very attractive to us. To my knowledge, NTT has more security pieces and parts than any other company in the world” said Idelman.
By becoming part of NTT, Solutionary is helping the company toward unifying its security assets to provide the market with a high-quality, global and seamless customer experience.
Having maintained its identity throughout the integration process, Solutionary is looking forward to leveraging its expertise and further contributing to NTT’s global growth.
“We want to make NTT proud of us and reinforce the wisdom of their decision in acquiring us. We do all of this with a deep sense of appreciation for our Japanese counterparts as they have enabled us to be a part of a great success story moving forward,” Idelman said.
- Originally prepared by Global Media for The Japan Times Special Report on the U.S. Midwest 2014 (Credit: Philippe Le Saux, Angelo Romualdez, Elizabeth Arcega and Brian Banta)
