Eracent Announces Automated Discovery for Wireless PDA Devices

Eracent, Inc., a worldwide provider of automated IT asset management technologies, today announced the capability of its EnterpriseAM software to discover and inventory wirelessly connected Personal Data Assistants or PDAs. In keeping with its practice of providing as much value to the IT manager as possible, Eracents PDA discovery tools are compatible with Research In Motions Blackberry devices, and all devices running either PalmOS or Windows Pocket PC operating systems. Identification of PDA-based viruses will also become a standard feature of the Eracent software knowledge base.

(PRWEB) August 27, 2004 -- Eracent, Inc., a worldwide provider of automated IT asset management technologies, today announced the capability of its EnterpriseAM software to discover and inventory wirelessly connected Personal Data Assistants or PDAs. In keeping with its practice of providing as much value to the IT manager as possible, Eracents PDA discovery tools are compatible with Research In Motions Blackberry devices, and all devices running either PalmOS or Windows Pocket PC operating systems. Identification of PDA-based viruses will also become a standard feature of the Eracent software knowledge base.

With Gartner reporting that over 23.5 million PDAs shipped over the last two years, we recognized the critical role that PDAs and related devices will play in the enterprise", commented Ed Cartier, Eracents Marketing VP. At the same time, IT managers need to know how these devices are configured, if they are corporate assets or private property and what software and data files they carry. EnterpriseAMs new functionality gives them the ability to that and more."

Scanning the PDA
The PDA scanning features of EnterpriseAM are designed to work through a wired or wireless connection, and will operate with any mix of the major PDA operating environments. The enhances EnterpriseAM allows IT managers to know exactly how many and what models of PDAs are in use within the enterprise, what operating system configurations are deployed, the frequency of use for each device, the hardware configuration of each PDA, who the users are and what applications are installed. In addition the system allows the manager to, through use of Eracents constantly updated audit files, determine exactly what is running on each PDA and to reconcile licensing information for corporate-supplied applications.

In an era where wireless handheld devices are being targeted by virus writers as a backdoor to the network, we feel it is critical to provide IT managers with the best tools available to scan and inventory PDAs", Cartier commented. We have extended the extraordinary accuracy of the EnterpriseAM solution to the handheld device, extending the level of control and security that IT managers are demanding today".

About EnterpriseAM
Eracents 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, file-type, 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 software license compliance information and notification of the existence of unauthorized or malicious code. Data from EnterpriseAM inventories is accepted by the SIIA as for purposes of demonstrating software license compliance. Eracent is a member of SIIA , is an SIIA CASP partner and a member of FAST and participates in the FAST Asset Management Group. EnterpriseAM has is Microsoft Certified and was named as a Codie Award Finalist for the 2004 Codie Award.

About Eracent
Eracent Inc. is a provider of IT asset and software 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 a suite of 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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