Certero PowerStudio 3.0 selected by Renfrewshire Council following competitive tender

June 28, 2011 - PRLog -- Certero PowerStudio 3.0 selected by Renfrewshire Council following competitive tender

Local authority is Certero’s first customer in Scotland since establishing a local presence this year

28 June 2011, London, UK – Certero has announced that Renfrewshire Council has selected PowerStudio 3.0® – Certero’s PC Power Management solution - to help the council achieve its PC-related cost and energy savings targets. The Council selected PowerStudio following a formal tender process, and it represents Certero’s first Scottish Council win since the company established a presence in Scotland in March this year.

With carbon and energy cost reduction targets to meet, Renfrewshire Council chose to assess the power management solutions available. After evaluating solutions on the market, it selected PowerStudio for its carbon and cost saving potential, competitive pricing, rich functionality, and the presence of local market technical support available from Certero. The council has purchased 8,000 PowerStudio licences, which will be divided between corporate licences, and education licences.

Commenting on Renfrewshire Council’s selection of PowerStudio 3.0®, John Lunt, Managing Director of Certero, said: “It is testimony to the capabilities of PowerStudio and Certero’s local market support that one of Scotland’s leading authorities has selected it to enable the council to realise its cost and energy saving goals. That this win comes so soon after Certero established a presence in Scotland, also demonstrates that Certero understands the needs of Scottish public and private sector businesses, and is well placed to work with them to achieve their energy and cost saving targets.”

With a government target of a 50% reduction in carbon and energy cost by 2025, other councils and local authorities across the UK that have already saved money and lowered their energy consumption by using PowerStudio, include Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Darlington Borough Council and North Lincolnshire Council. The value of PC power management software is illustrated in a recent report by Pike Research. It stated that using “PC power management software alone, could save almost 47 metric tons of C02 emissions by 2015, about the same as taking nearly eight million cars off the road.” The company forecasts that the PC and server power management software market will grow “...from £102m in 2010 to £476m annually by 2015, with the largest market sector for PC power management segment solutions over the next five years will be public sector.”

To help private and public sector organisations to achieve their targets, Certero offers PowerStudio® 3.0, the latest version of its backward compatible web-based management application that enables organisations to easily apply power policies and profiles across all their desktops. These include setting alerts to place all office PCs into hibernation, standby and shutdown as well as automatic start-up for maintenance during out of office hours. Critically, PowerStudio® 3.0 saves documents before running the automatic policies to prevent the frustrating loss of work many organisations fall victim to. It also has the ability to wake up remote PCs via web browser, mobile device and email.

PowerStudio® 3.0 enables global organisations to define finely-tuned parameters specific to the local market characteristics of their business. By making it easier to identify and set local conversion factor C0₂ values specific to a territory, organisations can gather back information that more accurately reflects their global energy consumption levels.

PowerStudio® 3.0 simplifies this task dramatically with location-based tariff costs. To further hone the precision of energy costs and usage rate information, PowerStudio® 3.0 also features an information bank prepopulated with data about the energy consumption rates of the most popular business PCs. This enables organisations to refine the parameters of their energy consumption queries, according to the type and make of PCs used within those locations and in conjunction with local tariffs.

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About Certero Limited
Certero is a specialist software vendor of PC Power Management and Software Asset Management solutions. Headquartered in the UK with offices in Australia and South Africa, Certero delivers innovative solutions to help organisations remove complex processes to drive efficiencies in their IT investments. Certero clients are drawn from across the public and private sectors and our solutions have enabled organisations to cut C0₂ emissions and save thousands on licensing expenditure.
Working closely with many of the world's leading names in IT, including Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Sophos, Certero offers simple yet powerful solutions with high-end functionality at affordable prices.

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