Eracent Announces Enterprise Lifecycle Managerment Software

Eracent, Inc., a worldwide provider of automated IT asset management technologies, today announced the availability of the newest addition to its suite of products designed to fully automate IT asset management processes. The Eracent Enterprise Lifecycle Manager enables organizations to track details about their IT assets, from the time of acquisition until they are retired. Enterprise Lifecycle Manager provides centralized tracking of very granular asset information, including procurement data, costs and payments, contract terms, hardware asset data for leased and purchased machines, software licensing information, asset assignments and usage, vendor information, warranty and maintenance details, and disposal records.

(PRWEB) September 15, 2004 -- Eracent, Inc., a worldwide provider of automated IT asset management technologies, today announced the availability of the newest addition to its suite of products designed to fully automate IT asset management processes. The Eracent Enterprise Lifecycle Manager enables organizations to track details about their IT assets, from the time of acquisition until they are retired. Enterprise Lifecycle Manager provides centralized tracking of very granular asset information, including procurement data, costs and payments, contract terms, hardware asset data for leased and purchased machines, software licensing information, asset assignments and usage, vendor information, warranty and maintenance details, and disposal records.

The systems comprehensive reporting and querying capabilities allow users to retrieve the exact information that they need to make informed business decisions. IT managers can realize significant cost savings by using and re-deploying existing assets more effectively, gaining leverage with suppliers, and avoiding unnecessary expenditures for hardware, software and services.

A number of Eracents clients were looking for a lifecycle management solution to complement the highly accurate inventory data that they were getting from EnterpriseAM", said Terry Divelbliss, Product Manager for the lifecycle management application. Most wanted to ensure compliance with their software licenses, and some were also looking for more control over their leased hardware so that they would not incur unexpected charges at the end of the lease. Some of these clients had prior generation repository applications, but had never fully deployed them due to extreme complexity or found them to be constrained by older architectures that did not lend themselves to full web-based functionality. We were able to start with a clean slate and develop the application based on what our clients required to manage their IT processes."

Key Features of the Enterprise Lifecycle Manager

The Eracent Enterprise Lifecycle Manager provides IT asset managers with key benefits including:

·   A facility to automatically send notifications via email, pager, etc. when certain user-specified conditions occur
·   An open architecture designed for use with Oracle or MS SQL, allowing data to be imported from and exported to existing electronic sources, reducing or eliminating manual data entry. When both EnterpriseAM and Enterprise Lifecycle Manager are resident in the same network, the systems can search and retrieve asset data from each primary application into consolidated reports.
·   Role-based security, enabling data to be accessed based on a users role, functional organization, or other parameters established by IT management.
·   A customizable, fully web-based interface for system administration, entering and viewing data, and reporting.
·   Linking of electronic or scanned documents to specific files or records.

The Enterprise Lifecycle Manager was designed for ease-of-use, and also to simplify implementation of the application. Many similar products can require many months for installation and integration", said Eracents President, Walt Szablowski. Our approach in designing the product was to insure that our customers achieved the lowest total cost of operation and the shortest time to value. Like our other products, EnterpriseAM and the Entitlements Management System, the Enterprise Lifecycle Manager provides IT managers with critical information they need in a cost efficient and time saving manner."

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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