Automated Software Entitlement Reconciliation a Reality - Eracent, Inc. Announces Entitlements Management System

Eracent Incorporated announced today that it has completed development and testing of a fully automated system to reconcile software license purchases and establish license entitlements, and will fulfill commercial orders . The new product Entitlements Management System (EMS) is offered as a stand-alone enterprise solution or one that integrates with Eracents flagship product, EnterpriseAM.

Glen Gardner, NJ (PRWEB) March 3, 2004 --- Eracent Incorporated announced today that it has completed development and testing of a fully automated system to reconcile software license purchases and establish license entitlements, and will fulfill commercial orders . The new product Entitlements Management System (EMS) is offered as a stand-alone enterprise solution or one that integrates with Eracents flagship product, EnterpriseAM.

Designed by software licensing professionals , EMS was built to automatically processes corporate purchasing records, normalizing the data to adjust for variations in product naming conventions and software versions, and creating management reports detailing precisely the software the enterprise is entitled to use. The process uses the normalized data to reconcile purchasing records with actual installed software on a corporate IT network.

"In light of the severe penalties imposed in those situations where corporations were out of software license compliance, and the vigorous prosecution often launched by organizations such as the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST), we feel that the Entitlements Management System satisfies a crucial need which has to date been left unfulfilled. EMS automates a process which has been extremely difficult to perform manually. This process will save our customers millions of dollars in cost and effort" said Walter (Walt) Szablowski, Eracents President.

Commenting on the new product, Keith Kupferschmid, Vice President of Intellectual Property Policy and Enforcement of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) noted that SIIA has always been a strong proponent of a companys maintaining an accurate and complete record of their software inventory. We feel that these kinds of software aid the record keeping and reconciliation process."

Eracents Unique Technology

Eracents EMS technology draws heavily from Eracents expertise in developing extremely accurate software inventory products and its ability to develop systems that seamlessly interface with other enterprise applications.

The traditional, and often painstaking, process of determining software license entitlements from purchasing records can often cause critical gaps in the information collected. Because of difficulties in performing a true software entitlements assessment, consulting groups or the companys IT service providers have often been tasked with the responsibility of completing a software entitlements analysis.

Eracent recognized the need for corporations to be able to easily and accurately determine their software license entitlements on an ongoing basis and addressed that need with EMS. Like EnterpriseAM, EMS was designed for large-scale enterprises and requires no significant infrastructure to implement this solution, for even the largest of organizations.

The rules based software intelligence within EMS analyzes purchasing data throughout the enterprise, creating an accurate assessment of the companys software license entitlements. Using an extensive software product title knowledgebase, EMS also provides data normalization and analysis capabilities to establish standard naming conventions for software products. The result is an automated, easy to use solution for Licensing and Asset Managers that addresses the painful question: "I bought software, upgrades, value packs, competitive upgrades, but what am I really entitled to use?" Now, with EMS, they can perform accurate and dependable software entitlements analysis with their own internal resources on a regular basis, saving months of effort and investments in outsourced consulting fees.

About Eracent

Eracent Inc. is a provider of IT asset management solutions for enterprise level organizations. Serving all industries in both domestic and international markets, Eracents core business strategy has been, and continues to be, to develop technologies that provide a rapid return, ease of use and full access to highly accurate data needed by IT managers in large organizations. To learn more about Eracent, visit www.eracent.com, or call 1-631-271-3335.

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