Attest Announces Availability of GASP 6 Suites; New Hardware Profiler Provides Complete IT Asset Discovery and Management.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NOVATO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2001

Attest Systems, Inc, the recognized leader for IT asset discovery and management, announced the availability of the new GASP 6 suites. With the release of GASP 6, IT managers gain a new level of control over their hardware-related assets allowing for even more accurate and complete IT auditing and asset management. Widely recognized as the most accurate asset identification and management tools on the market today, the new GASP 6 suites, with enhanced hardware tools allow customers to conduct a broader and more complete accounting of both their software and hardware IT assets.

"GASP 6 represents a significant new level in IT asset management and reporting," said Herbert M. Gottlieb, CEO and Founder of Attest. "GASP has the most accurate and largest software identification database in the industry, and with the new Enhanced Hardware Component (EHC) and Hardware Profiler(TM) found in GASP 6 our customers can conduct more complete and accurate IT audits faster and easier than before. GASP 6 helps the IT manager to transform their software and hardware data into critical information needed to support due diligence for M&A and other activities, disaster recovery planning and financial control." With an installed base of more than 2,000,000 seats, GASP is the industry standard and audit tool of choice used by the BSA (Business Software Alliance), SIIA (Software & Industry Information Association), software publishers and thousands of IT professionals worldwide.

"The new features and functions found in GASP 6 will allow us to formulate and analyze a more complete accounting of our customers' IT assets, both software and hardware," said Robert Coleman, Product Manager, Asset Inventory Services for TEKsystems, a leading provider of managed services and strategic staffing for information technology and communications. "With the broad capabilities of the new Hardware Profiler we can move beyond the desktop and include peripherals in our total IT asset discovery and management services."

New features in GASP 6 include the ability to collect DMI II data and produce summary reports quickly and accurately. A new Hardware Change Report allows the user to monitor changes between audits such as CPU speed, CPU count, total RAM, drive size, video card model and network card model, allowing for more continuous tracking of hardware and network information. The Hardware Profiler(TM) provides for the collection and modification of additional hardware related information (such as manufacturer, model, serial number, asset tag number, etc) for any number of hardware devices during an audit. The Hardware Profiler also includes new fields to track and distinguish between purchase and lease information to help customers better manage both their owned and non-owned hardware assets and reduce total cost of ownership.

New Features/Functions of GASP 6 Include

1. Enhanced Hardware Component(TM)(EHC) in addition to the current hardware information collected EHC will collect:

-- Vendor/Lessor

-- Purchase/Inception Date

-- Warranty/Lease Expiration

-- Reference

2. Hardware Change Report showing changes between audits in:

-- CPU Speed

-- CPU Count

-- Total RAM

-- Drive Size

-- Video Card Model

-- Network Card Model

3. Hardware Profiler(TM) which provides for the collection and/or modification of additional hardware related information (such as manufacturer, model, serial number asset tag number, etc.) during an audit. Default items include those listed below. Any number of additional items may be added.

    --  Computer             --  BIOS

    --  Platform             --  CPU

    --  Memory               --  Drives

    --  Video                --  Monitor

    --  Network              --  Modem

    --  Default Printer      --  Mouse

    --  Keyboard

Hardware Profiler also includes fields to track purchase/lease information including:

-- Vendor/Lessor

-- Purchase/Inception Date

-- Warranty/Lease Expiration

-- Reference

About Attest Systems, Inc

Attest Systems, Inc is a leading provider of PC asset and software management products and services delivered to organizations worldwide via the Internet. Founded in 1993, the company was recognized as the fifth fastest-growing ISV by Microsoft for the Winning on Windows campaign. Their flagship product GASP sparked the rapid growth and set the precedence for accuracy, ease of use and comprehensive reporting for software management. For more information or a free download, visit the Web site at www.attest.com or call 800/471-4277.