Press Release
April 18, 2001
Peregrine Systems® Leverages Aether Fusion To Facilitate Management of Mobile and Wireless Assets Anytime and Anywhere
Mobilize.It! and InfraTools' remote technology and facility infrastructure management capabilities reduce total cost of wireless assets
San Diego, CA - Peregrine Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRGN), one of the world's leading software companies, today announced that it will support Aether Fusion™, Aether Systems, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AETH) new wireless technology infrastructure, in its Mobilize.It! and InfraTools products. The combined technologies give companies the tools to reduce the total cost of wireless assets, while arming employees with the ability to manage infrastructure anytime and anywhere.
By supporting Aether Fusion, Peregrine is making it easier for companies to address the rising cost and challenges of managing mobile and wireless assets. Businesses can use Peregrine's InfraTools solution to track and manage their inventory of mobile and wireless assets. Mobilize.It! empowers employees to manage technology and facility assets using PDAs that use PalmOS, WindowsCE, PocketPC as well as RIM BlackBerry handhelds and smart phones. Aether Fusion is an integrated, modular wireless platform that enables businesses to access and distribute essential data and applications in a wireless environment quickly, reliably and cost effectively. Aether is one of Peregrine's Technology Connections Alliance™ partners.
"As companies increase their use of mobile and wireless devices, there is a resulting increase in the cost of supporting and managing those devices," said Bill Keyworth, Peregrine vice president of product marketing. "Peregrine is committed to frictionless business, and we fully support the integration of Aether Fusion into our InfraTools and Mobilize.It! products, which will help companies reduce total cost of ownership and manage their assets for greater productivity."
"Peregrine - with its focus on reducing the cost of ownership of technology - is an excellent partner for Aether as we introduce Aether Fusion to the marketplace," said Larry Roshfeld, Aether senior vice president, software products. "The combination of the efficiency and flexibility of wireless data services that Aether Fusion brings, along with the value of Peregrine's infrastructure management software, will equate to a greater return on investment for the customer."
"Wireless devices are becoming an essential part of many business applications today. With their proliferation, our view of the wireless space suggests a double digit growth rate through at least 2004. Organizations need to exploit this technology to accelerate their supply chain and their competitive position," said Bob Egan, vice president and research director, Gartner, Inc. "However, this also introduces complexity that necessitates better management of the devices and the wireless infrastructure. Coupling applications to manage the devices along with the infrastructure is a key element to their successful use and should generate substantial value to the enterprise."
Peregrine's InfraTools provides full-scale tracking of mobile IT assets, including those outside the firewall, so that businesses can effectively manage inventory with up-to-date information. Embedded with Aether ScoutWare's advanced PDA data synchronization and device management functionality, Mobilize.It! provides remote access to Peregrine's suite of infrastructure management solutions, which include AssetCenter™, ServiceCenter®, FacilityCenter™, and Get.Resources™, which is part of the Get.It! suite of Employee Relationship Management solutions.
With mobile access to Peregrine's infrastructure management solutions:
- Businesses can use ServiceCenter to improve their customer service levels and manage costs with accurate and up-to-date field data.
- Facility managers can update, create and close work orders and synchronize them with FacilityCenter from remote locations
- Asset managers can verify their company's inventory in the field and synchronize this information with data held in AssetCenter at any time
About Peregrine
Founded in 1981, Peregrine has matured into one of the largest software companies worldwide. Peregrine supports companies with solutions that remove friction points in managing infrastructure assets, empowering employees and enabling collaborative electronic commerce. Peregrine's Infrastructure Management Group (IMG) provides solutions to manage the entire life cycle of an organization's assets, from IT equipment and fleets of vehicles to a company's intangible knowledge assets. Peregrine's Employee Relationship Management solutions give employees real-time tools to secure knowledge, services and resources from a portal accessed at a desktop computer or an array of mobile devices. Peregrine's E-Markets Group (EMG) takes to market a digital business offering -- B2B Relationship Management -- that provides a full range of software products and managed Internet services using Peregrine's Get2ConnectSM global trading network. Peregrine EMG processes nearly 1.2 million e-Commerce transactions every business day and annually transacts $280 billion. Peregrine is headquartered in San Diego, California and has offices throughout the world. For more information on Peregrine, visit http://www.peregrine.com.
About Aether Systems, Inc.
Aether Systems helps enterprise customers improve efficiency and profitability by providing the services, software and support necessary to extend existing and future business applications from the desktop to any wireless device. Through Aether Fusion™, Aether's wireless enabling technology foundation, Aether develops, deploys and manages wireless solutions built on industry standard technology and backed by Aether's expertise in wireless hosting, software and services. Aether provides the business world with a single source for reliable, scalable and cost effective wireless solutions.
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