June 14, 2002—MRO Software, Inc., a provider of e-Business solutions for strategic asset management, has acquired Main Control, Inc., a provider of IT-asset management solutions. Main Control’s software helps customers manage assets throughout their lifecycle—allowing efficient planning, procurement, deployment, tracking, maintenance, and retirement of these assets, including laptop and desktop computers, servers, software, network equipment and mobile devices.
The addition of IT-asset management expands the MRO’s ability to manage all of the enterprise’s strategic assets, and streamlines integration between asset management and back-office applications. Using MRO Software’s application suite, customers can manage the complete lifecycle of strategic assets and asset-related sourcing and procurement.
MRO states that the acquisition supports its belief that asset management is becoming more important and, in turn, customers are seeking a single asset management suite and not a series of point solutions from multiple vendors. As company leaders look across an organization, many are realizing the true mission-critical nature of certain assets, and the requirement for an enterprise-level management suite-akin to other vital organizational systems.
MRO maintains that its software can broaden the number of asset classes a company can manage because its solutions now can accommodate a complete range of assets from heavy manufacturing to computing and technology.
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