Express Metrix Improves Corporate IT Asset Management with Release of Express Software Manager Professional

Company adds enhanced application control, license allocation, custom hardware fields and web-based reporting capabilities to flagship product

SEATTLE - May 3, 2005 - Express Metrix today announced the availability of Express Software Manager®, the company's powerful IT asset management software that integrates software license inventory, application usage data, application control, hardware inventory and comprehensive reporting (both web-based and Crystal-generated reports) into a single interface. Express Software Manager Professional takes advantage of the latest Microsoft .NET framework technology to provide business customers with an easy-to-deploy discovery tool that enables them to more effectively manage their IT assets.

Available immediately through Express Metrix, Express Software Manager Professional is designed to lower IT costs and make IT administrators' jobs easier by providing the basis for strategic management of IT assets. The new version underscores the critical role of complete and accurate licensing and usage data in IT decision-making by offering the industry's most comprehensive and customizable reporting features.

With Express Software Manager Professional, IT administrators can:

  • Discover — Discover all software installations and usage patterns, PC hardware configurations, and file types in an organization — saving time, ensuring accuracy and guaranteeing completeness.
  • Recognize — Recognize over 50,000 software applications and associated support files installed and used in an organization's environment quickly and accurately.
  • Report — Report data needed to make well-informed investment, compliance and usage decisions through customizable, comprehensive and intuitive reports.

"Express Software Manager Professional provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use, automated solution to help organizations regularly monitor the breadth of their PC assets. It provides access to corporate software usage statistics, which can help to drive more efficient purchasing and business decisions," said Kris Barker, Express Metrix CEO. "With the growth of technology, IT asset management has become a critical application to help organizations better understand their overall hardware and software consumption, software licensing exposure, and plan hardware and software upgrades. It is also an important component in an overall desktop security strategy. Express Software Manager Professional is based on feedback from the thousands of Express customers around the world, and is now a complete software asset management solution that can improve security by locking down the desktop, manage software upgrades, reduce time and cost for helpdesk support, and ensure licensing compliance to reduce legal and financial risk."

The following features have been added to Express Software Manager Professional:

Application Control — IT administrators can prevent applications from launching based on authorized users/machines or licenses available for concurrent applications.

License Allocation — Organizations can allocate software licenses to specific departments or organizations depending on user need or for managing concurrent licensed applications.

Custom Hardware Information — IT administrators can create custom machine attributes to associate specific hardware data such as lease information, computer location, employee identification number, etc. to each machine.

Custom Hardware Information Import — IT administrators can import into Express Software Manager Professional Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that contain custom machine attribute information.

Web Report Filters — IT managers and purchasing managers can now generate Web or Crystal-based reports using any filter created in the Express Software Manager Reports Console.

"With Express Metrix Software Manager Professional, we've saved $30,000 to $40,000 just by not having to buy software we don't need," added Keith Phillips of Attorney's Title Insurance. "Express paid for itself within a year with the reduction of software costs."

Using state of the art technologies, Express Software Manager Professional has been architected to simplify deployment and administration and to improve performance and flexibility in a variety of network environments. Express Software Manager Professional was developed using Microsoft's .NET framework providing a web services interface to facilitate data transfer between client and database. The Administrative Console provides a flexible, easy to use interface to administer PC assets and to help IT professionals manage their overall software and hardware asset management program.

Express Software Manager Professional includes several integrated components for data collection, consolidation, administration and reporting. These components reside on the system administrator's workstation, server and user workstations. The software components can be installed on one server or each component can be installed on separate computers. Express Software Manager Professional is compatible with Windows NT or newer operating systems. For a complete list of Express Software Manager Professional components and functionality, please visit http://www.expressmetrix.com.

Pricing and Availability

Express Software Manager Professional is available today through Express Metrix and its international distribution network. Entry-level pricing for Express Software Manager Professional is $45, which includes a 20 percent first-year maintenance fee for future product upgrades, updates to the Express Software Identification Database, and ongoing access to the company's superior technical support. Existing Express Software Manager customers who have current maintenance agreements receive the upgrade to Express Software Manager Professional at no charge.

About Express Metrix

Express Metrix, a veteran in the IT asset management space for over a decade, focuses on serving organizations whose needs for accurate, comprehensive IT asset reporting and trouble-free management aren't met by enterprise-oriented framework products or less sophisticated inventory tools. Express Metrix recently welcomed its 5,000th customer, having earned a reputation for delivering superior IT asset reporting, ease of deployment and use, and outstanding customer support. Winner of the SIIA's 2008 CODiE Award for "Best Asset Management Solution," Express Metrix is a Microsoft Certified partner and is certified Citrix Ready. More information on Express Metrix can be found at www.expressmetrix.com.

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Express Metrix, Express Software Manager, and Express Software Manager for SCCM are registered trademarks or trademarks of Express Metrix, LLC. All other trademarks, trade names or company names referenced herein are used for identification only and are the property of their respective owners.

Contact for Press Inquiries:

Debra Brandt

Express Metrix
dbrandt@expressmetrix.com