1E is the market leader in power management solutions. We focus on reducing PC and server operational costs by saving energy,
reducing infrastructure and intelligent automation. Our solutions have saved over 3 million metric tonnes of CO2 globally and reduced
infrastructure requirements by over 75,000 servers.
Read our customer success stories below to find out how companies around the world benefit from 1E solutions.
Atkins chose SMS 2003 for software licensing compliance, patch management and application distribution. Brad Smith,
a Windows Architect at Atkins comments:
"Our system maintenance costs have gone down significantly because we patch much more rapidly. We’ve automated application
distribution, and the SMS reporting console has enabled a medium sized team of around 3 people to actually analyze the info
rather than spending their time collecting the data.".
Sustainability is a guiding principle at Bovis Lend Lease, one of the world’s leading project management and construction
companies. As part of a wider commitment to becoming a more sustainable organisation, Bovis Lend Lease in the UK is committed
to continually minimising the adverse impact of its carbon emissions by adopting industry best practices to create high quality,
sustainable property assets. Its goal is to design, construct and own net zero carbon buildings and dramatically reduce energy use.
British Sugar chose Windows 2003 and Microsoft Active Directory. As a result of the standard collaboration with 1E's
consultants over the course of the project, British Sugar's IT staff gained significant new skill sets, allowing them to
manage and maintain the Windows infrastructure for British Sugar's future business requirements.
A need to reduce energy consumption without compromising service, safety or flexibility drove Dell’s energy conservation plan -
implemented with 1E technology. By deploying NightWatchman and 1E WakeUp across approximately 50,000 client computers, Dell has
achieved a 40 percent reduction in energy costs, which translates into US$1.8 million.
Dell is firmly committed to meeting energy conservation benchmarks in manufacturing its products. The company is also determined
to conserve energy within the corporation by improving the power management of approximately 50,000 in-house computers. “We want
to take an industry-leading approach to energy conservation,” says Jay Taylor, senior engineer global strategist at Dell.
“The technology is now available to make significant improvements in conservation, and we set out to deploy that technology
to both conserve energy and cut costs.”
The UK government’s Department for Children, Schools and Families found that many of its PCs were being left on unnecessarily
overnight and at weekends. As part of the target for all government offices to be carbon neutral by 2012, the Department is
committed to reducing its carbon footprint and setting an example to others to advocate emission savings.
Deployed by 1E as part of a Devon and Cornwall Police and SunGard Public Sector Facilities Management ICT project, a
more robust IT infrastructure plus reduced power consumption proved a winning combination for Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.
A diverse user population at East Berkshire College made PC utilisation hard to predict, but Patch Management Pack from 1E
has added control and transparency to energy consumption and patch management.
Grupo Banco Popular’s many branch locations were served by a PC-based network that could be affected by heavy network traffic.
With 1E’s SMSNomad Branch, the bank’s cost-effective network now provides a highly efficient system for distributing, updating
and managing software, with high levels of reliability and security.
National Instruments
National Instruments, a Texas-based hardware and software developer, worked with Climate Savers Computing through the Power
Management Incentive Program to implement a pilot project to reduce energy consumption by computers. NightWatchman from 1E,
empowered National Instruments to achieve a projected 33 percent energy savings with laptops and 50 percent energy savings
with desktops, which subsequently reduced operational expenses. For an overview about how National Instruments (NI) implemented
power management, please have a listen to Alan Russi, director of IT Infrastructure at NI and Heidi Baschnagel, director of
marketing and communications at NI.
View National Instruments video
Less intrusive desktop maintenance and lower bills - a greener solution from 1E is given the green light at Norfolk and
Waveney MHFT.
The Oldham Integrated Care Centre (ICC), which opened in November 2009, is one of the largest primary care facilities
delivered by the Local Improvement Finance Trust initiative in the UK. The centre opened in November 2009 and is enabling
NHS Oldham to make a step-change in the way healthcare is delivered in the borough. One key challenge was to put technology
at the heart of the project.
NHS Oldham will be able to reduce energy costs by £41,000 in the first year and reduce its carbon footprint by around
800 tonnes per year by deploying NightWatchman from 1E across 350 desktops.
Oxon Health Informatics Service (OHIS) needed to plan IT upgrades cost-effectively and deploy them quickly -
but multiple sites and an ageing IT infrastructure made this a huge challenge. 1E skills and solutions solved both problems at once.
View Oxon Health Informatics Service video
As part of an enterprise-wide systems management initiative, Parker Hannifin partnered with 1E to eliminate the need for
458 servers, reduce help desk demands and cut power costs. Parker Hannifin immediately saved an estimated $2 million in
server costs and annually saves $600,000 in energy costs alone.
Peterborough City Council estimated that 30% of its PCs were being left on unnecessarily. In conjunction with 1E,
Peterborough City Council looked at a simple, cost-effective and immediate solution. The NightWatchman® software
solution enables the automatic, centralized power management of PCs across the ICT infrastructure. The benefits quickly
achieved by the authority in its goal of reducing its carbon footprint and providing an example to others to advocate
emission savings included a reduction of £50k on electricity costs and 250 metric tonnes of CO2
emissions per annum.
The Princess Alexandra NHS Trust, based in Harlow Essex, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1995. It is a District
General Hospital providing a range of services including intensive care and neonatal cots, plus community paediatric and
midwifery services to the local communities.
The Trust is in close proximity to the M11 and operates from a number of different locations including the main site in
Harlow, together with outpatient and diagnostic services throughout the region. The Trust provides care and treatment to
a population of nearly 258,000 people, employs 2,887 staff and has a turnover of £143million.
Working collaboratively with Microsoft and Reed Elsevier personnel, 1E was the first UK organization to deliver a
Vista migration infrastructure and images to production machines in the UK. Utilising BDD 2007 (for its first deployment
globally for Vista) 1E successfully helped Reed Elsevier migrate their Head Quarter PCs onto the new Microsoft platform.
SABMiller required a single reporting solution for servers, desktop PCs and laptops for status information, security
patches and antivirus software. SAB Miller chose SMS 2003 for its reporting and deployment capabilities, and 1E for its design,
development and implementation skills. Additionally it selected 1E’s RightClick Deployment™, SMS WakeUp and NightWatchman Solutions
to further enhance SMS, delivering a 30-40% reduction in support calls.
Rapid growth across Europe meant law firm, SJ Berwin LLP, needed a single, coherent operating platform and the tools to
manage its IT assets cost-effectively. 1E delivered SMS 2003, plus its own specialist tools, to let the firm take control
of the corporate desktop.
The University of Southern Denmark has cut its energy bills and improved the quality of the working day with the aid of
the 1E Patch Management Pack. It can now switch on computers remotely overnight for a brief time in order to apply patches,
eliminating disruptions to users during the day and saving an estimated $180,000 on electricity each year.
With a commitment to driving down its energy costs, Verizon Wireless deployed a range of technologies, including SMS
Patch Management Pack (now known as Power & Patch Management Pack) from 1E, across 63,000 managed machines within an infrastructure
of 88,000 PCs for its USA call centers. The result is better power management, savings of $1.3 million per year and no compromise
on performance.
SMS Wakeup and NightWatchman not only saved VSP significant expenditure of energy costs and C02
emissions, but have provided the further benefit of enabling controlled and successful software and patch distribution.
These tasks can now occur overnight or during weekends, and only require the machines to be powered on for less than an hour.
Previously, PCs had to be left on for the entire weekend.
Wolverhampton City Council required a solution that would complement the systems management features of SMS while ensuring
the successful patching of 3500 workstations out-of-hours. They chose SMSWakeUp for the following reasons: to complement
Microsoft's SMS for systems management; to guarantee patching success; to significantly reduce patch deployment time; and
to avoid any user interaction.
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