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Nortel (Northern Telecom) Selects Tangram's Asset Insight(TM) to Track Its Distributed IT Assets Globally
PR Newswire - October 22, 1997 17:55
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CARY, N.C., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
(Nasdaq: TESI) the leading provider of business software for tracking
Information Technology (IT) assets in the distributed enterprise, announced
today that Nortel (Northern Telecom) has purchased Asset Insight, its asset
tracking business solution, to deploy worldwide to track the organization's
client/server IT assets. Financial details of the agreement were not
disclosed.
Nortel is planning to deploy the asset tracking system globally to
inventory, track and manage hardware and software assets, as well as
configuration changes, in its desktop computing environment. Once installed,
Nortel senior managers will be able to make informed business decisions about
software licenses, hardware and software upgrades, IT thefts, and help desk
support, in addition to reducing the costs associated with owning, installing,
purchasing and managing IT assets.
Ken Hollingshead, Nortel's director of desktop technology and management,
said the selection of Asset Insight is in line with the company's strategic
decision to reduce the overall costs of its desktop computing. "With the
deployment of Asset Insight, Nortel will be able to track its multi-platform
desktop hardware and software assets with minimal impact to its internal
networks, end users, and technical support staff.
James V. Taggart, Tangram's director of VAR channel operations said
Nortel's decision to integrate Asset Insight into its desktop-computing
environment worldwide confirms the tremendous return on investment and unique
advantages offered by Asset Insight. "With information technology costs rising
dramatically each year, industry leaders like Nortel are beginning to
recognize that they need to know what IT assets they have in order to manage
them," Taggart stated. "By implementing Asset Insight, Nortel will have the
comprehensive information they need to proactively manage their enterprise-
wide assets to support critical business decisions."
Al Cipollone, director of asset management strategies for CompuCom agreed.
"Asset Insight is a highly effective and accurate software solution for
tracking personal computer assets on an enterprise-wide basis," Cipollone
stated. "Not only does it offer exceptional reporting capabilities, Asset
Insight is truly a superior product when it comes to providing the information
executives need to track and manage total cost of ownership issues."
The agreement was coordinated through Texas-based CompuCom Systems, Inc.,
a value-added reseller under contract with Tangram.
About Asset Insight
Asset Insight is an automated and robust asset tracking system that
associates and tracks current and historical hardware, software and
configuration information with desktop users and departments throughout the
enterprise, with no interruption to the end user. With Asset Insight, decision
makers can: pinpoint where departmental and/or company-wide Year 2000
hardware/software risks reside, cost-out the fixes, and proactively manage
them; forecast future IT assets based on trending analyses; determine the true
cost of upgrades before they commit to them; determine how many applications
are deployed in an organization; spotlight suspicious activities by
highlighting declines in hardware assets; identify non-standard desktop
configurations; conduct automated inventories; get a handle on IT assets
during mergers, acquisitions and centralizations, and resolve held desk issues
quickly and efficiently.
Studies conducted by industry analysts have shown that asset tracking
software solutions like Asset Insight can save corporations upwards of 20
percent annually off their IT budgets. Tangram, which pioneered enterprise-
wide asset tracking, says the industry is reported to be worth $2 billion.
About Tangram
For more than a decade, Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc. has provided
state-of-the-art IT asset tracking and electronic software distribution
solutions to major organizations throughout the world. Tangram's product
lines, including Asset Insight and the Internet Subsystem, support the leading
industry-standard client/server and local area network environments, including
Sun Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, SCO Open Server, AIX, OS/2, Macintosh, DOS,
Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95 and NetWare. In addition, Tangram's products
support all major connectivity options, including the Internet and other
TCP/IP communications protocols. Asset Insight is certified by Novell as an
NLM Client Server with NetWare v4.10, NetWare v4.11 and NetWare v3.12.
Based in Cary, N.C., Tangram is a member of the Safeguard Scientifics,
Inc. partnership of companies headquartered in Wayne, PA. Safeguard
Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE) is a strategic information systems company that
develops and supports technology-driven growth companies with an emphasis on
information systems markets. For more information on Tangram or its products,
call 1-800-4TANGRAM, or visit our World Wide Web site at tesi.com
About Nortel
Nortel works with customers worldwide to design, build and integrate
digital networks - for information, entertainment, education and business -
offering one of the broadest choices of network solutions in the industry.
Nortel had 1996 revenues of $US 12.8 billion and has approximately 68,000
employees worldwide.
About CompuCom
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, CompuCom Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMP) is a
leading provider of distributed desktop products and network integration
services for large corporate customers worldwide.
Asset Insight is a trademark and Tangram and the Tangram puzzle are
registered trademarks of Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc. Other brands or
products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
companies.
SOURCE Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
/CONTACT: Lori Schwind Murray, APR, PR Mgr., Tangram Enterprise Solutions,
Inc., 208-939-5588 or 800-426-5831/
/Web site: tesi.com
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