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Announcing SURVEYOR 5.0!

GreenInnovation is proud to announce the availability of Verdiem SURVEYOR 5.0, the exciting new version of the industry's leading enterprise PC power management software.

The upgraded version includes expanded reporting capabilities and improved centralized management for IT managers, building upon an already comprehensive solution that helps businesses cut IT energy waste by reducing PC energy consumption as much as 60 percent. It also offers a fast and easy way to demonstrate social and environmental responsibility without impacting end-user productivity.

Benefits of SURVEYOR 5.0 include:

Maximize energy savings with increased reliability
A common occurrence in some environments is a condition where PCs do not transition to the lower power state. This is often called Insomnia and can be caused by rogue applications, spurious network, CPU or disk activity. This problem can be hard to resolve since the concept of idle time cannot be configured at the OS-level. SURVEYOR implements a complementary idle timer that can be defined at a granular level with threshold settings for CPU, disk and network activity. SURVEYOR Idle Timer can then be set to supplement the Windows Idle Timer and enforce sleep or hibernate. The result is that PCs reliably comply with power policies and maximizing of energy savings.

Minimize administration
With centralized configuration of OS-level power management settings, administrators can configure PCs for the appropriate Wake-on-LAN, Wake-on-Keyboard and Wake-on-Mouse functionality. These can be configured for all machines from a centralized console with just a few checkboxes.

Optimize power management and centrally administer
Significantly reduce administration and maintenance with consolidated views of client configuration and exception summary across groups of machines. Also included are reports that highlight specific periods of machine activity and inactivity, periods of highest and lowest power consumption, and details of power profile settings across all power groups.

Gracefully manage applications
A new centralized facility - Power State Transition Manager - enables the definition of any script-based action to be performed prior to PC transitioning into a lower power state. An easy to use scripting facility allows administrators to save data in open applications, backup applications or gracefully shut them down.

Also, computers can be prevented from shutting down if certain applications are active on the machine. In addition to out-of-the-box scripts for common office applications, administrators can augment their library with custom scripts written in either JavaScript or VBScript.

An important security feature in the scripting function is a secure, signed certificate infrastructure. Administrators can either use the built in Verdiem certificates or assign their own corporate certificates to ensure that each client/PC only runs authorized scripts.

Manage laptop computers differently
Auto-grouping rules can be used to setup groups and associated power profiles specific to laptop computers. Together with SURVEYOR's configurable facility that allows end-users to override a power management scheme, administrators can easily accommodate the nuances of mobile usage patterns.

Support for all Vista power settings
All new power settings in Windows Vista are available for use in defining the smart profile scheme. These enhanced power settings can now be used in SURVEYOR's central management interface to administer Vista specific machines.

Seamless remote desktop access
With SURVEYOR's Wake-on-Web product, users can easily wakeup their machine for unfettered access regardless of the enforced power policies.

Reliable patch management
Environments with SMS/SCCM can benefit from SURVEYOR Wake-Up for SMS. This product allows administrators to synchronously wakeup machines that have pending advertisements. Administrators can also schedule machines for wakeup even though they are not Wake-on-LAN capable. In addition, policy refreshes can be triggered after wakeup to accelerate the software update.

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PCs Set To Go Green Down Under with Verdiems SURVEYOR

Verdiem SURVEYOR Energy Efficiency Software launches in Australia and New Zealand. Verdiem, the leader in power management software for PC networks, today announced GreenInnovation will distribute Verdiem SURVEYOR Energy Efficiency Software in Australia and New Zealand. SURVEYOR is the ideal first step for companies to reduce their IT carbon footprint, address rising energy bills and meet expectations from shareholders, employees and consumers to address climate change. Download Entire Article .

GreenInnovation announces GreenPrint Xerox Team Up to Help Customers Reduce Wasteful Printing

GreenInnovation Australia today announced GreenPrint Technologies is teaming up with Xerox Corporation to bundle GreenPrint Enterprise software with Xerox's Phaser 8560 and Phaser 8860 solid ink color printers. With the purchase of a solid ink printer, Xerox customers will have the opportunity to download a full version of GreenPrint Enterprise software at no cost. This effort further promotes the missions of GreenPrint and Xerox to provide environmental and cost-saving benefits to their customers. The collaboration allows Xerox US customers to save over 15,000 trees and 50,000 tons of greenhouse gases annually. Download Entire Article

Green business challenges

How green are Australian businesses? How ready are they for the introduction of emissions trading? Nor very, according to a report from Ernst & Young reported here. The report finds that most companies are struggling to measure greenhouse gases that come from a variety of sources, from factory emissions to waste and vehicle exhausts. Read More.

GreenInnovation launches GreenPrint in Australasia - click here to download PDF.

"Melbourne, Australia — September 4, 2007— GreenPrint Technologies of Portland, Oregon, USA announced today that GreenInnovation had been appointed to sell GreenPrint solutions in Australia and New Zealand. GreenPrint software is designed to eliminate wasteful printing in both homes and businesses." Read More.

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