At CMS we believe that a fundamental problem exists today in the IT asset management business.  Companies seeking to contain the escalating costs of IT by controlling their assets and securing their networks are relying instead on management of information about their assets.

Recorded information about an asset does not remain current with the movement of the asset around an enterprise, regardless of the manual processes or software tools in place.   Decisions concerning the deployment, utilization, maintenance and replacement of IT assets are made daily based on outdated or incomplete data about the current IT infrastructure.  This inaccuracy leads to waste in all activities surrounding IT asset management, including purchasing, support and upgrades.

Therefore a gap exists for most organizations between the physical tracking of their desktop assets and the tracking of configuration statistics for those assets within a corporate database.  But with the introduction of the EtherLock^TM platform, CMS Technologies fills this gap.  The EtherLock^TM solution automates the physical inventory process to provide a 100% accurate, real-time synchronization between what you own and where it is in your enterprise.

EtherLock^TM builds from a base of asset control and network security to track assets and instill discipline for all asset activities.  Organizations of any size can be assured that their desktop inventories occur in real-time with greater accuracy than ever before possible in asset management.  Resellers of computers, network solutions and network management products can easily add EtherLock^TM as one of their basic product offerings.  IT outsourcing vendors and asset management service companies can integrate EtherLock^TM as their platform for control and efficiency in order to concentrate on value-added revenue generating activities.