Asset Point Releases Version 5.0 IT Asset Management Software

NEW YORK - June 25, 2009 - Asset Point, the only IT asset management software providing complete management of capacity, process, change, and financial information from data center to desktop -- announced the release of Asset Point 5.0 today.

The latest version delivers the most advanced IT transformation tools, and allows organizations the ability to visualize, plan, track and manage change events from the Data Center to the Desktop. The Asset Point ITAM library consolidates typically federated information to provide a single view into dynamic IT environments. The advanced functionality in 5.0 is especially effective for organizations consolidating, merging, or divesting IT assets.

"We listened to both the marketplace and our users to enhance Asset Point 5.0. We are extremely pleased that this newest release provides greater value to organizations as well as the pricing flexibility to support their requirements during trying economic conditions," said Bruce Gansler, Director of Asset Point. "IT change is an expensive and risky proposition - and with 5.0, we're helping organizations reduce cost while offering process controls necessary to assure success."

Asset Point 5.0 brings advanced functionality with new capabilities to meet changing IT demands:

Visualization and Documentation
A graphic rendering of IT infrastructure from the physical perspective provides the logistical requirements necessary to understand both where assets are located and the impacts of recent or planned changes. Net Benefit: Assures that IT changes are carried out effectively, accurately, on-budget and on-time.  Enhanced Modeling and Planning
The 5.0 release brings extensive enhancements to Server Migration, Move Plan, and Finance functionality - providing users a comprehensive view into the status, process, planning, impacts and financial state of all IT changes. For data centers, power, cooling, and space capacities related to changes are completely modeled. Net Benefit: With this advanced insight, organizations can dramatically reduce business risk prior to move, add, and change (MAC) events.

Information Portal
The newly designed Information Portal offers user-configurable dashboards, allowing reporting for current conditions, modeled changes, trends, risks and redundancies. Net Benefit: Users can gather information "on demand", viewing data the way they want, when they want.

Scalable, Hosted Solutions
Using our new scalable, Hosted Solution, Asset Point 5.0 delivers all the features of our enterprise application - without having to install, load or maintain software. Net Benefit: Asset Point 5.0 is the first IT Asset Management software that is scalable and cost-flexible - allowing you only pay for what you need, when you need it.  

Improved Access, Usability and Performance
Asset Point's new release takes advantage of the Microsoft?? .NET architecture to deliver improved access, usability and performance. Every user gains secure access to their unique user experience from any computer with a Web browser at the speed of the internet. Net Benefit: A true Web-based application with easy access anywhere.

Administration
A complete renovation of the Administration module delivers a more intuitive interface and robust features, including the ability to interface to disparate systems such as service desk, monitoring, and enterprise management systems. Net Benefit: Resources across every level of the enterprise can access the system with the appropriate restrictions in place.About Asset Point
Asset Point (www.asset-point.com) is a global IT Software and Services company that has spent more than 20 years helping firms proactively manage change in their IT environments.

The Asset Point software suite provides the most cost-effective and comprehensive solution for managing physical capacity in facilities, modeling IT changes, and managing processes for IT transformations from the data center to the desktop - thereby lowering the cost and complexities of IT changes and mitigating risk for the business.

Our blue-chip client list includes financial services, banking, healthcare, government, and technology companies. Asset Point has offices in NY, Chicago, London, and Toronto. Please contact us at [email protected] for more information.