1E
Encyclopedia
1E is a privately owned
software company based in the United Kingdom
. 1E has offices in London
, New York
, Frankfurt
, Paris
, and Noida
. The company develops automated software solutions to address complexity, management costs and power consumption. 1E has developed products to reduce the energy consumption of IT hardware, such as personal computer
s, monitors and servers
.
contractors, Sumir Karayi, Phil Wilcock, and Mark Blackburn, who each contributed £500 to start the company. Karayi now owns most of the shares of the company after he bought out Wilcock and Blackburn.. Today the company has more than 16 million licenses deployed worldwide, across 1,400 organizations in 42 countries. Its customers are drawn from public and private sectors across the world and include AT&T
, Dell
, HSBC
, Arup
, and Ford Motor Company
.
The company's name is derived from a computer error. When some Microsoft Windows
computers crash, a blue screen containing 1E appears. This name was chosen because the founders wished that 1E could prevent this from happening to big companies.
and Linux
operating systems:
commissioned independent research into the awareness and behavior of PC users and server administrators in the world's largest companies.
The PC Energy report revealed that nearly half of all corporate PCs in the US are not regularly switched off at night. This adds up to approximately 108 million work PCs being left switched on overnight costing US businesses in the region of $2.8 billion in energy costs. In terms of carbon emissions this equates to approximately 20 million tons, roughly the equivalent impact of 4 million cars.
In 2010 1E commissioned Vanson Bourne to conduct research into Help Desk Efficiency. The resulting report highlighted a number of challenges for IT departments. More than a third of users perceive little or no value from the money their IT department spends on them each year. More than 50% of users have to chase every request they make at least one to make sure they receive the software they ask for and more than two thirds (68%) of users feel it would be quicker and easier to find and install software themsleves. Rather than contacting their IT help desk.
The Software Efficiency report published in 2011 with Fast IiS, Opinion Matters and IAITAM found extensive waste in unused software and shelfware, accounting for £1.7 billion in the UK alone. Responses found that 47% of enterprises still use spreadsheets to record software licenses with 6% still using a paper-based filing system and a staggering 16% using nothing whatsoever.
software products. These include Data Synergy PowerMAN (Software)
, Verdiem
SURVEYOR and Faronics
Power Save.
Privately held company
A privately held company or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the...
software company based in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. 1E has offices in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, and Noida
Noida
Noida , short for the New Okhla Industrial Development Area, is an area in India under the management of the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority . Noida came into administrative existence on 17 April 1976 and celebrates 17 April as "Noida Day". It was set up as part of an urbanization...
. The company develops automated software solutions to address complexity, management costs and power consumption. 1E has developed products to reduce the energy consumption of IT hardware, such as personal computer
Personal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
s, monitors and servers
Server (computing)
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...
.
History
1E was founded in 1997 by three former MicrosoftMicrosoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
contractors, Sumir Karayi, Phil Wilcock, and Mark Blackburn, who each contributed £500 to start the company. Karayi now owns most of the shares of the company after he bought out Wilcock and Blackburn.. Today the company has more than 16 million licenses deployed worldwide, across 1,400 organizations in 42 countries. Its customers are drawn from public and private sectors across the world and include AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
, Dell
Dell
Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...
, HSBC
HSBC
HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...
, Arup
Arup
Arup is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the...
, and Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...
.
The company's name is derived from a computer error. When some Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
computers crash, a blue screen containing 1E appears. This name was chosen because the founders wished that 1E could prevent this from happening to big companies.
Products
1E develops the following software products which run on Windows, Mac OS XMac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
and Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
operating systems:
- NightWatchman Server Edition measures how much power is being used by servers and identifies which are being inefficient. It monitors the amount of useful activity across physical and virtual servers enabling unused ones to be decommissioned with confidence.
- NightWatchman® Enterprise – is a market-leading, comprehensive PC power management solution which combats the 50% of PCs that are left on, draining power unnecessarily, overnight and on weekends.
- WakeUp is Wake-on-LAN product used to power on PCs remotely for software updating. NightWatchman and WakeUp are often sold together as a Power and Patch Management Pack. WakeUp includes a software component for the iPad and iPhone to manage WakeUps remotely.
- Nomad Enterprise uses spare network bandwidth to deliver operating system upgrades, software deployments and patches safely and securely to thousands of PCs and servers, day or night, with zero disruption. It enables OS releases, software applications and updates to be distributed to remote server-less branch offices and bandwidth-challenged environments and reduces server footprint and administrative overhead.
- Shopping is the app store for the enterprise which enables software self-service and automates the request, approval and delivery process, meaning that users can download the software and services they need at any time and within minutes. This minimizes software requests to the helpdesk and delivering savings of €28 on average per request.
- AppClarity, Software Asset Management software seeks out unused software in an enterprise, financially quantifies the waste caused by that unused software, reclaims and reuses the unused licenses and eliminates unnecessary license liability making it possible for enterprises to only use – and pay for – the software and licenses they need.
Research
In 2009 1E and the Alliance to Save EnergyAlliance to Save Energy
The Alliance to Save Energy is a coalition consisting largely of industrial, technological, and energy corporations. The Alliance states that its mission is to "support energy efficiency as a cost-effective energy resource under existing market conditions and advocate energy-efficiency policies...
commissioned independent research into the awareness and behavior of PC users and server administrators in the world's largest companies.
The PC Energy report revealed that nearly half of all corporate PCs in the US are not regularly switched off at night. This adds up to approximately 108 million work PCs being left switched on overnight costing US businesses in the region of $2.8 billion in energy costs. In terms of carbon emissions this equates to approximately 20 million tons, roughly the equivalent impact of 4 million cars.
In 2010 1E commissioned Vanson Bourne to conduct research into Help Desk Efficiency. The resulting report highlighted a number of challenges for IT departments. More than a third of users perceive little or no value from the money their IT department spends on them each year. More than 50% of users have to chase every request they make at least one to make sure they receive the software they ask for and more than two thirds (68%) of users feel it would be quicker and easier to find and install software themsleves. Rather than contacting their IT help desk.
The Software Efficiency report published in 2011 with Fast IiS, Opinion Matters and IAITAM found extensive waste in unused software and shelfware, accounting for £1.7 billion in the UK alone. Responses found that 47% of enterprises still use spreadsheets to record software licenses with 6% still using a paper-based filing system and a staggering 16% using nothing whatsoever.
Competitors
1E has a number of competitors offering similar PC Power ManagementPC power management
PC power management refers to the mechanism for controlling the power use of personal computer hardware. This is typically through the use of software that puts the hardware into the lowest power demand state available...
software products. These include Data Synergy PowerMAN (Software)
PowerMAN (Software)
PowerMAN is a computer software program that allows PC power management to be centrally monitored and managed. The software allows an enterprise-wide power management strategy to be implemented. The product is used by many public sector organisations in both the US and UK. It is also used by...
, Verdiem
Verdiem
Verdiem is a software corporation based in Seattle, WA. The company is privately owned and backed by venture capital. . Verdiem produces the Surveyor enterprise-class PC power management software and the free Edison home-use solution. The company has OEM agreements with Hewlett-Packard and Cisco...
SURVEYOR and Faronics
Faronics
- Company Profile :Faronics Corporation is a privately held software company with offices in Vancouver, BC, Canada, San Ramon, CA, USA, and Bracknell, UK. Faronics develops computer software for multi-user IT environments...
Power Save.
Awards
- NightWatchman Server Edition wins Product of the Year in the Green IT 2011 awards
- NightWatchman won the "Enterprise Software Product of the Year" award at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards in 2007.
- NightWatchman Enterprise named runner-up in the Minister of Energy Category at the Green IT 2011 awards.
- 1E ranks among Sunday Times 2010 International Track 100 league table of top private companies.
- 1E honored in the 2010 Microsoft Partner Awards as ISV/Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year.
- 1E received the Green Supplier Award at Green IT Expo 2008.