Eracent EnterpriseAM Named Codie Finalist EnterpriseAM Named One of Best Systems Management Solutions

Eracent Incorporated announced today that its flagship product, EnterpriseAM, was nominated as a finalist in the Codie Awards, sponsored by the Software & Information Industry Association. EnterpriseAM is designed for the largest of enterprises and requires no adaptation or significant infrastructure build-outs to inventory even networks of hundreds of thousands of computers.The efficient collection server architecture can discover and identify unknown software and hardware configurations over any network. Codie Awards showcase the software and information industry's finest products and services and remain the standard-bearer for celebrating outstanding achievement and vision in the software industry.

Glenn Gardner, NJ (PRWEB) January 15, 2004

Eracent Incorporated announced today that its flagship product, EnterpriseAM, was nominated as a finalist in the Codie Awards, sponsored by the Software & Information Industry Association. The Codie Awards showcase the software and information industry's finest products and services and remain the standard-bearer for celebrating outstanding achievement and vision in the software industry. The Codie Awards provide the only peer recognition program in the software and information industry.

"In light of the intense competition this year, to be named a Codie Awards finalist is a tremendous honor and an important achievement. SIIA is proud to recognize these companies as true leaders in their fields." says Ken Wasch, SIIA President.

Commenting on the company’s achievement, Walt Szablowski, Eracent’s CEO said "We have always felt that EnterpriseAM is world class technology. Being nominated as Codie Finalist is both an honor and an affirmation by the industry of the quality and value of our product . With so many well-respected products and companies nominated for the 2004 Codie Awards we are particularly excited about what this says about EnterpriseAM.”

Eracent’s Unique Technology

Eracent’s patented technology, which allows the product to achieve an extraordinarily high degree of accuracy for discovered network inventory while facilitating true ease-of-deployment, has been the basis for EnterpriseAM’s evolution. The efficient collection server architecture can discover and identify unknown software and hardware configurations over any network. EnterpriseAM is designed for the largest of enterprises and requires no adaptation or significant infrastructure build-outs to inventory even networks of hundreds of thousands of computers. Data collected by EnterpriseAM is easily integrated and shared with most major enterprise applications such as Microsoft’s SMS (MSFT), IBM’s Tivoili (IBM), and Peregrine’s asset management products.

Additional New Features of EnterpriseAM

Eracent consistently incorporates product enhancements that address the current and evolving needs of its enterprise customers. Based on their input Version 7.11, the most recent release of the software, has been enhanced to include:

·    Multi-Language Enhanced web-based reporting capabilities, providing multi-national users a user friendly data access and reporting capabilities .

·    The ability to inventory every system running Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, AS400 along with the new versions of Apple Computers.

·    New graphical user interfaces, making use of the technology even more ergonomic and efficient, especially in international locations.

·    A new Software Licensing Management service, which will help enterprise level organizations gain better control of, and information on, their Software purchasing and their level of software license compliance.

·    Enhanced data security capabilities.

·    Advanced server based algorithms for even greater software detection accuracy.

·    Significant bandwidth reduction

“Our customers help us plan the roadmap for EnterpriseAM development”, said Szablowski. “Our goal is to improve the technology in concert with our customers’ growing needs, and to design future releases of EnterpriseAM with the requirements of the enterprise level users in mind. We feel this attention to the needs of our customers was a key factor in producing a product that has earned us the recognition we received today.”

About EnterpriseAM

Eracent’s EnterpriseAM technology enables large enterprises and government organizations to effectively manage their IT assets quickly and efficiently from a single location. Using patented technology, EnterpriseAM can be deployed in days and can begin to provide accurate and easy to use information almost immediately. Identifying software to the title, version, patch, hot-fix and language level, and hardware to the component level, EnterpriseAM sets a new threshold for IT asset inventory accuracy. Major corporations and government agencies rely on EnterpriseAM to provide up-to-date software and hardware data, as well as information on their software license compliance. Data from EnterpriseAM inventories was recently accepted by the SIIA as for purposes of demonstrating software license compliance. Eracent is also a member of SIIA , an SIIA CASP partner and a member of FAST and participate sin the FAST Asset Management Group.

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, Eracent’s 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 http://www.eracent.com, or call 1-631-271-3335.

About the Codie Awards

In 1986, the Codie Awards were established by the Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), so that the pioneers of the up-and-coming software industry could evaluate and honor each other's work.

Since its inauguration, the Codie Awards program has carried forward the same vision-to showcase the software and information industry's finest products and services and to honor excellence for corporate achievement and philanthropic efforts. Today, that industry is comprised of hundreds of software, information and education technology companies changing the way people work, learn, communicate and access valuable information.

The Codie Awards hold the distinction of being the only peer-recognition awards program of its kind in the industry, providing a unique opportunity for companies to vie for the praise of their competitors.

As SIIA evolves to serve the needs of our members, the Codie Awards program, now in its eighteenth year, remain the standard bearer for celebrating outstanding achievement and vision in our industry.

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