Hornbill Announces Out-Of-The-Box Integration with Centennial Discovery

September 29th, 2004 -- Hornbill Systems, a leading provider of IT support and service management solutions today announced its range of Supportworks helpdesk solutions, including its ITIL compatible ITSM and IT Helpdesk templates are now available with out-of-the-box integration with Centennial Discovery, the software and hardware asset tracking solution.

Hornbill's Connector to Centennial Discovery 4.5x is a pre-fabricated integration module that provides seamless integration between Supportworks and Centennial Discovery standard and web editions. The integration provides real-time access to the data collected by Centennial Discovery through the Supportworks user interface as well as providing automated synchronisation of data collected by Centennial Discovery with the Supportworks Asset Database and/or CMDB, giving customers immediate access to the latest up-to-date information on all hardware and software assets deployed across the organisation.

The integration Connector has been developed by Hornbill with the full support of Centennial Software. Glenn Stephens, Executive Vice President, Centennial Software Limited said "Creating a robust integration between Supportworks and Centennial Discovery offers customers of both solutions the opportunity to realise significant business benefits in terms of "joined up" IT operations, where audit data is used to speed up help desk performance and help deliver a better quality of service to end users."

Hornbill’s strategy for Supportworks development mandates an “Open Integration Policy” which ensures that Supportworks customers can choose best of breed systems that best suit their infrastructure. "Supportworks ESP is a flexible application platform and development environment that enables integration with any system that is built around open standards, said Gerry Sweeney, Managing Director for Hornbill Systems. "Many product alternatives to Supportworks are only designed to integrate with one or two complementary products, which may force customers to make a compromise decision when choosing a new or replacement service management solution. Hornbill has provided Supportworks solutions that integrate with most of the complementary desktop, server, mobile device, and network management systems in common use today. We have provided ad-hoc integration and data synchronisation between Supportworks and a diverse range of complementary systems for many years. The Connector to Centennial Discovery 4.5x is one of many pre-fabricated integration connectors made available
under our Open Integration Policy, which offers our customers the flexibility to choose from a range of best of breed solutions." concluded Sweeney.

About Centennial Software


With over four million licenses sold, Centennial Software is a leading supplier of network discovery solutions to global organizations. Centennial products proactively identify and monitor all hardware and software deployed throughout an organization, creating a clear and accurate
global view of corporate IT resources and usage. Information provided by Centennial solutions is crucial to supporting informed IT management decisions in business-critical areas such as licence compliance, network planning and usage tracking. Centennial also offers seamless integration with complementary business applications such as helpdesk and software distribution systems.

Headquartered in the UK with offices and resellers in all major regional markets, Centennial was founded in 1997 and secured significant investment from venture capitalists, b-business partners, in 2004. For more information, visit http://www.centennial-software.com/

About Hornbill

Hornbill develops and markets Supportworks: platform technology and applications for IT Service Management and business helpdesks. Supportworks' service desk software is designed for rapid deployment within any IT or business support environment, including ITIL-compatible IT Service Management (ITSM), IT Helpdesk, Customer Service & Support, Human Resources and Facilities Management with the flexibility to build additional service desks at minimal extra cost.

Customers including Atos Origin, Toyota Motorsport, Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Kent County Council, Greggs, London School of Economics, Natural History Museum, Knight Frank, Comet, The National Archives, and Camelot benefit from Hornbill's unique 'Human Touch' approach to Service Management.

Hornbill was founded in 1995 and has offices in London, UK and Dallas, Texas. For more information about Hornbill's solutions please visit www.hornbill.com

Public Relations Contacts

Hornbill Service Management Limited
Catherine Staite
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E. catherine.staite@hornbill.com
Spark Communications
Satyen Dayal
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E. satyen@sparkcomms.co.uk