Configuresoft Launches ECM Management Extensions for Assets.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- New Module Extends Configuresoft's Reach and Flexibility to Manage Assets across the Enterprise

Configuresoft, an innovator in systems management technology, today launched a new module for its award-winning Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM). ECM Management Extensions for Assets (ECMMX for Assets) offers ECM users a simple, flexible method for extending and customizing ECM to manage the heterogeneous enterprise.

Atlanta Postal Credit Union is integrating ECMMX for Assets to centralize and correlate data from different areas that were previously resource intensive and time consuming to manage. "With Configuresoft's ECM Management Extensions for Assets, we can ensure that all of our assets are protected and managed properly, not just the PCs," said Terrence M. Griffin, vice president of Information Services for Atlanta Postal Credit Union. "By relating the data directly back to our purchasing information, we make better business decisions and reduce our IT operational and compliance costs."

ECMMX for Assets is designed to tailor ECM's data repository to an organization's unique asset management and reporting requirements. The new module provides a quick, wizard-driven approach for adding attributes to ECM-discovered hardware and software assets, such as "asset tag" and "cost center," as well as non-ECM-discovered assets, such as printers and fax machines.

ECMMX for Assets expedites decision making and improves accuracy of asset management and data discovery because all relevant information gets assembled into a single report. The module automates the time-intensive task of locating, correlating and reporting on key decision support information stored across the organization in disparate applications, databases, spreadsheets, documents and email. Early ECMMX for Assets adopters are using the new module to:

--Track system location, responsible administrator, cost, asset tag and maintenance contact details;

--Assure compliance by verifying that auto-discovered software installations don't exceed organizational purchases;

--Receive alerts about upcoming hardware maintenance and lease expirations for deployed systems; and

--Audit security policy adherence to business critical machines managed by outsourcers.

"Our customers want to drive the complexity and cost out of managing their assets across the enterprise," said Andrew Bird, vice president, Configuresoft. "The flexibility provided by this compelling new module answers customer demand for consolidating data from disparate but related sources under the ECM umbrella. Initial customers are reporting that fast deployment and CMDB population are delivering significant reduction in operational, compliance and audit costs."

With additional modules for Exchange and Active Directory, ECMMX for Assets further extends ECM's abilities to bring operational integrity to business critical applications.

About Enterprise Configuration Manager

By standardizing and monitoring server and client configurations by role, ECM ensures continuous operational compliance with regulatory, industry and corporate standards throughout a computing infrastructure. Sustained by a proven and scalable architecture, ECM collects tens of thousands of detailed asset, security and configuration settings from each Windows, UNIX and Linux server and workstation--storing that information in a centralized configuration management database (CMDB) for immediate access, analysis and reporting. ECM can enforce security policies by automatically resetting configurations to their desired state when an unauthorized change (or deviation) occurs. These capabilities help IT organizations keep their mission critical systems properly configured, while ensuring security compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS and FISMA.

About Configuresoft

Configuresoft is an innovator in systems management technology, ensuring continuous compliance with internal policies and external regulations across today's heterogeneous computing infrastructures. Spanning both security and operations, the Company's configuration management, compliance and remediation products are used by 11 of the world's 25 largest companies to keep their critical systems properly configured, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, GLBA, Basel II, HIPAA and DISA, and industry standards such as ISO 17799, PCI DSS and Microsoft Security Hardening Guides. To contact Configuresoft, please call (888) U-CONFIG or visit www.configuresoft.com.