Alloy Software Named a Winner in 2011 Golden Bridge Awards

Nutley, NJ – August 25, 2011 – Alloy Software, Inc., a leading provider of service and asset management solutions, today announced that its Alloy Navigator 6 Enterprise Suite was named the winner in the “Asset Management” category, under Innovations in Information Technology, for the prestigious Golden Bridge Awards. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, and more.

More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices around the world participated and their average scores determined the winners of the 2011 Golden Bridge Business Awards. The winners were announced during the awards dinner and presentation on August 10 in New York which was attended by finalists, industry leaders and judges. “It is an honor for our flagship solution, Alloy Navigator, to be recognized as a winner for this valued industry and peer business award,” explained Vladimir Vinogradsky, President and CEO at Alloy Software.

Alloy Navigator is an enterprise-level solution that helps companies manage all aspects of the IT infrastructure. Designed with industry best practices and real-world customers in mind, the solution integrates service desk, asset management and network inventory. The solution’s Asset Management module helps companies manage the full lifecycle of laptop and desktop computers, servers, networking hardware such as printers and other equipment, software licenses, and the complex interrelationships and dependencies among them. From procurement through to retirement, Alloy Navigator tracks asset ownership, purchasing, warranty and contracts, related tasks and incidents, and provides a clear view of financials by tracking the current value of assets with a number of depreciation methods.

About Alloy Software

Established in 2002, Alloy Software is a leading provider of service management, asset management and network inventory software solutions that help organizations of all sizes automate IT operations. Today, still under original management, Alloy Software has been named one of the fastest-growing private companies in America, and received numerous accolades such as Software 500 and Product of the Year from industry publications.

Alloy Software Named a Finalist in 2011 American Business Awards

9th Annual Stevie Awards to be Presented on June 20 in New York City

Nutley, NJ – June 14, 2011, – Alloy Software, Inc., a leading provider of service and asset management solutions, today announced was named a finalist in the Support Department of the Year – Computer Software category in the 2011 American Business Awards (The Stevies).

The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. This year’s Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 20 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. More than six-hundred executives from across the U.S.A. are expected to attend.

“We are honored to be named as a finalist for the Support Department of the Year category,” explained Vladimir Vinogradsky, President and CEO at Alloy Software. “We are always expanding our technical support offerings in order to ensure our customers are maximizing the use of our solutions. Our dedicated support team is well-versed in IT and Alloy products, and has a quick turnaround time, providing a positive and personalized customer experience.”

More than 2,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in more than 40 categories, including Most Innovative Company of the Year, Management Team of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year and Executive of the Year.

For more details on The American Business Awards and the full list of finalists, please visit www.stevieawards.com/aba.

About the Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

About Alloy Software

Established in 2002, Alloy Software is a leading provider of service management, asset management and network inventory software solutions that help organizations of all sizes automate IT operations. Today, still under original management, Alloy Software has been named one of the fastest-growing private companies in America and received numerous accolades such as Software 500 and Product of the Year from industry publications.

Alloy Software Achieves High Marks in Education Market with IT Service Desk Solution

Nutley, NJ – Apr 20, 2011 – Alloy Software, Inc., a leading provider of service and asset management software, today announced a 15 percent increase of educational organizations upgrading to or implementing Alloy Navigator 6 for the first time within the past year. K-12 institutions, universities, colleges and school districts are optimizing Alloy Navigator as a centralized service desk platform to proactively administer all aspects of IT service management. Alloy Software is committed to providing reliable solutions to support the IT needs of students, faculty, staff and administrators with their product, Alloy Navigator, which demonstrates a growing success within the education market.

Leveraged by hundreds of education institutions, Alloy Navigator is a comprehensive, integrated IT Infrastructure Management solution offering an intuitive, easy-to-use approach to managing the service desk, IT assets, task assignments, and other routine activities in modern IT departments. Leveraging industry best practices, Alloy Software’s flagship product improves and organizes end-to-end service processes, and delivers an enhanced user experience, at a highly competitive price.

Saint Edward’s School, a user of Alloy Navigator since 2007, recently upgraded to the latest version in order to take advantage of the new Action-based Workflow System, which allows them to more easily automate their daily tasks and reduce training overhead. In addition, the school utilizes the Asset Management module to manage the full lifecycle of hardware equipment, network inventory and software licenses.

“Alloy Navigator was the most logical solution for our growing IT needs,” stated Quen Voyles, Director of IT at Saint Edward’s School. “The product’s ease-of-use and the company’s helpful support staff enabled us to reach all our IT service management goals. With the added and improved features of the latest version, we are able to get a lot more out of the product and easily integrate with our existing third-party applications.”

Alloy Software found that all educational institutions need an easy-to-use and cost-effective service desk solution with the ability to track and manage assets, all accessible from a single interface. The most important features desired by educational institutions include workflow functionality to automate and drive all activities within the IT, starting with simple tasks (such as password resets) to managing increasingly sophisticated IT projects, a Self-Service Web portal that supports end-users including staff and students, announcements to keep everyone informed, a library to track the check in/out of assets, and much more. All of this is available in Alloy Navigator 6.

Alloy Software has a significant presence in the education sector, providing service desk solutions to numerous schools, universities and colleges worldwide. Customers utilizing Alloy Navigator include: University of Central Florida, University of Pittsburgh, The British School of Brussels, The Juilliard School, Singapore American School, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tel Aviv University, Mt. Pleasant Central School District, Southern California College of Optometry, Wallkill Central School District, Nord Anglia Education Ltd, Reaseheath College, University of Otago – Department of Physiology and Anderson Center for Autism.

“We’re honored that so many colleges and universities have chosen Alloy Navigator as their service desk solution,” said Vladimir Vinogradsky, president and CEO of Alloy Software. “Our goal is to provide customers with solutions that are affordable, scalable and easy to use – elements that are important to any educational institution.”

Pricing and Availability

Alloy Navigator is priced per technician and computer node. Educational pricing for a three-agent license supporting 100 computers is about $5600, which includes one year of support and maintenance. Discounts are also available for non-profit and government organizations. Upgrade paths are available for customers of previous versions and companies switching from a competitor’s solution.

About Alloy Software:

Established in 2002, Alloy Software is a leading provider of service management, asset management and network inventory software solutions that help organizations of all sizes automate IT operations. Today, still under original management, Alloy Software has been named one of the fastest- growing private companies in America, and received numerous accolades such as Software 500 and Product of the Year from industry publications.

Alloy Navigator 6.1.1 Released

Today Alloy Software announces the latest release of its Alloy Navigator 6 Enterprise Suite.

Version 6.1.1 is a maintenance release, and it provides several enhancements and fixes for the issues identified in the previous 6.1.0 version. Here is a list of some of the changes in version 6.1.1:

  • Spellchecking in Various Languages
    Both Alloy Navigator 6 and Alloy Discovery 6 enable you to supplement the predefined American English dictionary with custom spell checking dictionaries for other languages.
  • Standalone Reporting Module for Alloy Discovery 6
    Alloy Discovery 6 includes the Standalone Reporting Module for generating reports from the command line or in a background job, which allows you to automatically generate your inventory reports without starting the Alloy Discovery Main Console.
  • Encrypted Connection Information
    The database connections strings for the Technician Web Portal and Self-Service Portal are now stored in an encrypted form for improved security.
  • Enhanced Web Portal Performance
    Version 6.1.1 improves the overall performance of the Technician Web Portal and Self-Service Portal.
  • Many Other Enhancements
    Version 6.1.1 features numeruous performance improvements and fixes affecting Software Asset Management, Recurrent Tickets, E-mail Notifications, Self-Service Portal, and other product areas.

Customers with a current Software Maintenance plan can download the update from the Alloy Support Portal.

 

Alloy Software Launches Enterprise Version of Alloy Discovery Solution

Targeting Medium and Enterprise Business Environments, Alloy Discovery 6 Offers a Unique Auditing Technology with Best-in-Class Features, Usability and Scalability

Nutley, NJ – Feb 1, 2011 – Alloy Software, Inc., a leading provider of service and asset management software, today announced the latest version of its comprehensive network discovery and inventory solution – Alloy Discovery 6. Targeting medium and enterprise business environments, Alloy Discovery 6 offers a unique auditing technology with a compelling menu of best-in-class features, usability and scalability – delivering accurate, up-to-date audit information for any organization.

Alloy Discovery is the clear choice for centralized tracking of IT assets, even in large organizations with complex topology and organizational structure. The flexible and powerful combination of agentless and agent-based audit tools collects and delivers accurate hardware and software inventory data for: single- and multi-domain networks, remote (WAN) sites, isolated networks and standalone computers.

Alloy Discovery 6 includes new and enhanced features. Starting with version 6.0, Alloy Discovery provides:

  • The Agentless On-Demand Audit (supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS computers);
  • Administrative Alerts to notify technicians of critical issues based on specific system, hardware and software conditions;
  • External Tools which allow organizations to integrate with third-party solutions in order to diagnose, manage and control computers, servers and various devices on a network;
  • SNMP Discovery which detects and identifies networked printers, scanners, switches, hubs, routers, and other devices;
  • Hardware and software change history;
  • Data Analysis and Data Export via Crystal Reports (integrated), Dashboard and Data Views with flexible data filtering, grouping and sorting;
  • User-defined fields for maintaining additional information about your assets;
  • Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008

“Alloy Discovery 6 provides a comprehensive network discovery and inventory solution that detects, audits and continually tracks physical and virtual computers, servers, printers, switches, routers and other equipment,” explained Vladimir Vinogradsky, President and CEO of Alloy Software. “The powerful enhancements of version 6.0 will allow Alloy Software to provide medium-sized and enterprise businesses with a flexible tool that will allow them to collect and deliver accurate hardware details and software inventory data.”

Alloy Discovery 6’s flexible deployment is a key benefit over many competitive products. Additional benefits of the product include complete visibility of hardware/software inventory; a combination of agentless and agent-based audit methods; the ability to easily audit and track IT assets across diverse network infrastructures and distributed offices; ability to plan effectively for OS migrations, hardware and software upgrades; improve IT planning and facilitate budgeting; manage inventory changes proactively; streamline inventory reporting; integrate inventory data with existing systems and processes; and much more.

Pricing and Availability

Alloy Discovery 6 is priced per technician and computer node. Pricing for a three-agent license supporting 100 computers is $1,415, which includes 1 year of support and maintenance. From today until March 1, 2011 customers will receive 20% off their entire order. Further discounts are available for education, non-profit and government institutions, and customers replacing competitor software.

About Alloy Software:

Established in 2002, Alloy Software is a leading provider of service management, asset management and network inventory software solutions that help organizations of all sizes automate IT operations. Today, still under original management, Alloy Software has been named one of the fastest-growing private companies in America, and received numerous accolades such as Software 500 and Product of the Year from industry publications.