Tangram (SFE company) Joins Dell Openmanage Alliance Program
CARY, N.C. (April 12) BUSINESS WIRE -April 12, 1999--
Asset Insight(R) To Deliver Asset Tracking
Solutions to Enterprise Customers
As part of its long-term commitment to increasing desktop manageability
and lowering the cost of PC ownership, Tangram Enterprise Solutions,
Inc. (NASDAQ:TESI) announced today that it has joined the Dell(R)
OpenManage(tm) Alliance.
Launched in 1997, the Dell OpenManage Alliance is designed to help Dell
customers save time, resources, and money by providing them with
industry-standard applications that address systems management and
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) needs enterprise-wide.
As an OpenManage member, Tangram officials say its enterprise-wide
asset tracking solution, Asset Insight, will be marketed to Dell's
extensive customer base through Dell's OpenManage Alliance Web site at
dell.com. Moreover, by joining the program,
Tangram officials say it will gain access to new and emerging Dell
technology, which Tangram can incorporate into Asset Insight's
automated discovery process and reporting capabilities. Dell customers
can also realize several important benefits. For instance, Dell
customers will be able to tie Dell's procurement information, such as
workstation components and associated costs, to the inventory data
discovered by Asset Insight. As a result, customers will be able to
verify the installation and costs of purchased and leased assets, and
assign these costs to the appropriate business units.
As a market leader in enterprise-wide asset tracking, Asset Insight is
used by organizations worldwide to make informed business decisions,
address desktop Year 2000 issues, plan technology migrations, deploy
and manage enterprise systems management suites, and reduce the costs
associated with owning, installing, purchasing and managing IT
resources. Using a sophisticated discovery process, Asset Insight
automatically tracks and audits current and historical information
about workstations, servers and infrastructure devices, including
installed software, hardware components, operating systems and
configuration files. Specifically, on a scheduled or ad hoc basis, an
active desktop agent discovers asset configuration information, and
transfers this information to a central repository. Once in the
repository, organizations can use Asset Insight's graphical interface
to generate reports and analyses that support lifecycle asset
management and TCO initiatives.
"We are pleased to have Tangram as a member of the OpenManage
Alliance," said Bill Peterson, director of OptiPlex(R) desktop
marketing for Dell Computer Corporation. "As a premier asset tracking
solution, Asset Insight can provide our customers with a solid solution
to address desktop manageability in the enterprise, as well as
outstanding support for our industry standard instrumentation."
According to Steve Kuekes, Tangram's chief technology officer,
Tangram's participation in the Dell program illustrates the critical
nature of asset tracking and the unique set of features that Asset
Insight brings to the Dell systems management equation. "Whether Dell's
customers are addressing Y2K desktop problems or planning technology
migrations, they must know what assets they have and how those assets
are changing," Kuekes stated. "With Asset Insight, Dell's customers can
have this information at their fingertips."
Availability
Presently, Asset Insight can be pre-installed on Dell systems,
including OptiPlex(R) desktops, Latitude(R) notebooks, Dell
Precision(tm) workstations and PowerEdge(R) servers, through the
DellPlus Custom Factory Integration service or purchased through
DellWare(R). For information on Asset Insight and the Dell OpenManage
Alliance Program, customers can call 1-888-866-8202 or visit
dell.com. For additional information on Tangram
and Asset Insight, customers can contact Richard Bloom, Tangram's sales
development manager at 800-426-5831, or browse Tangram's Web site at
tangram.com.
About Tangram Enterprise Solutions
For 15 years, Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc. has been developing
enterprise-wide business solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. To date,
Tangram's asset tracking and electronic software distribution solutions
have been installed on more than a million workstations and servers
throughout the world.
Tangram is a partnership company of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.
(NYSE:SFE). Headquartered in Wayne, PA., Safeguard
(http://www.safeguard.com) develops and operates rapidly growing
information technology businesses.
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