FileWave the technology leader for system lifecycle management tools officially announces the release of their management suite: FileWave version 4.

FileWave™ 4 has been released with significant performance enhancements and greater administrative flexibility and ability to manage computers, users and software within an easy to use and a well arranged framework. The all new FileWave™ includes new features such as LDAP-Integration that allows grouping clients and computers dynamically according to the Active- an/or Open-Directory expressions.

The FileWave team invested almost 2 year of research and development to create the new features within FileWave™ 4.0 all from our own roadmap and in accordance with end user requests.  Using these new technologies within FileWave™ v4, System Administrators are able to manage and deploy software 50% faster than previous versions as well as profit from even more cross-platform functionality. A new user interface, plus filter and grouping functions make FileWave are more intuitive and offer a better overview and organization of every environment.

On our Website, FileWave offers a trial version of the latest release.

About FileWave: FileWave develops, markets and integrates the software management tools FileWave and FileWave Inventory. These products are specialized for software management on the Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux systems for small business, educational institutes as well as globally located enterprises. With our patented solutions we have integrated functions such as: deployment of FileSets (full ready to go applications - not scripted installers), live imaging, LDAP integration as well as real time Inventory reporting. A small sample of our worldwide customer base includes: HBO, Gruner + Jahr, LEGO, Publicis and Viacom. For fuller information about our company, its products and how we can assist you, please visit www.filewave.com <http://www.filewave.com> .

Contact:
Thomas Kaufmann
FileWave (Europe) GmbH
Phone:  +41 71 9143080
Fax:       +41 71 9143081
Email:    press@filewave.com
Web:     www.filewave.com
 
2009 FileWave and the FileWave logo are trademarks of FileWave and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. FileWave is patent pending. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective partners.

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia chooses FileWave as their System Lifecycle Management solution.

Wil, November 2^nd 2009, FileWave the technology leader for system lifecycle management tools announces its latest customer: The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is an international, graduate-level research facility dedicated to inspiring and heralding a new age of scientific achievement within the region.

The University opened their doors in September 2009 and are running degree courses within 11 fields of study. Before the opening KAUST researched deployment and management tools that offer amongst other things: rapid remote deployment, cross-platform support, scalability, load balancing, fault tolerance and sophisticated reporting tools. After tendering their needs to the market place they chose to purchase both FileWave and FileWave Inventory as their System Lifecycle Management solutions.  After deciding FileWave products were the best in class solution for their IT estate they began implementing immediately and are currently on target to be fully functional for their grand opening

"KAUST needed a comprehensive software management system to enable our state of art infrastructure supporting our research, administration, and learning and teaching objectives." says Mr Gurleyen, the IT Service Executive of KAUST, "FileWave is currently being rolled out to more than 3,000 workstations across the campus."

"FileWave is extremely proud to welcome KAUST as our first customer in Saudi Arabia and we are looking forward to working side by side with such an inspiring organization, that will be researching and working at the leading edge of technology in the Middle East Region. This project is being developed jointly by Apple Europe, Agnosys and FileWave. Our goal is to integrate the whole system by 26^th of September 2009 to run on Dual Boot Systems running a fully managed and controlled estate simultaneously on both the Mac OS X and Windows platform.  This is one of the biggest projects presently being rolled out not only in the Middle East but in the world and we are increasing our resources to reflect our commitment to the region; this is best illustrated in our soon to be launched website which has been re-written in Arabic." says Nurdan Eris, CEO FileWave Worldwide.

About FileWave: FileWave develops, markets and integrates the software management tools FileWave and FileWave Inventory. These products are specialized for software management on the Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux systems for small business, educational institutes as well as globally located enterprises. With our patented solutions we have integrated functions such as: deployment of FileSets (full ready to go applications - not scripted installers), live imaging, LDAP integration as well as real time Inventory reporting. A small sample of our worldwide customer base includes: HBO, Gruner + Jahr, LEGO, Publicis and Viacom. For fuller information about our company, its products and how we can assist you, please visit www.filewave.com.

Contact:

Thomas Kaufmann

FileWave (Europe) GmbH

Phone:                 +41 71 9143080

Fax:       +41 71 9143081

Email:    press@filewave.com

Web:     www.filewave.com

2009 FileWave and the FileWave logo are trademarks of FileWave and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. FileWave is patent pending. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective partners.

FileWave Ships FileWave Inventory™ Version 9.0

San Francisco, CA, June 11, 2009

FileWave, a technology leader for software management on the Mac OS X, Windows and Linux platforms, is pleased to announce the release of FileWave Inventory™ version 9. The new version allows customers to meet the ever-growing requirements for asset and inventory management. Major new features include: Purchase Order Management, Maintenance Contract Management as well as a Vendor and Product database.

FileWave Inventory™ is FileWave's IT software and hardware inventory management solution for Mac OS and Windows PCs as well as for all SNMP supported devices. Client computers automatically send all information to the centralized SQL database where reports are run to easily verify license compliance and compute financial values useful in Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) compliance.

FileWave Inventory™ 9 brings you a new and comprehensive way to manage all of the IT assets in your estate. The new solution also offers increased security features such as being able to limit data accessibility by department, OS type, location and other user definable criteria and its improved web based user interface now uses Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to provide a Web 2.0 experience.

With our new features we allow the customer to define both products and vendors and to then directly create a purchase order from this information. By linking the license information and the audits reports you can automatically generate email notifications to administrators or departmental heads to inform them about any installation that causes license violations.

“With the integration of purchase orders and maintenance contract information, FileWave Inventory™ becomes a one stop shop for inventory management”, says Ben Forsyth, Director of Software Development for FileWave (USA), Inc. “The customer is able to record their purchase orders in the database and then, with no effort, be able at a later time in their lifecycle to find those assets and review all of the relevant history about those products or licenses.”

About FileWave

FileWave develops, markets and integrates the software management tools FileWave™ and FileWave Inventory™. These products deploy, monitor, and manage applications in enterprise network environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh systems. Customers of FileWave include HBO, Gruner + Jahr, LEGO, Publicis and Viacom. For additional information, please visit www.filewave.com.

© 2009 FileWave and the FileWave logo are trademarks of FileWave and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. FileWave is patent pending. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective partners.

FileWave Celebrates Tenth Year Anniversary with New Pricing Structure

San Francisco, CA, March 13, 2009

FileWave, a technology leader for software management on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux systems, announces a new lower pricing structure in celebration of the company's tenth year anniversary. In addition to distributing, installing and configuring operating system upgrades, FileWave® permits users to efficiently mass deploy and manage all other types of software, from large ready-to-use applications such as Adobe Creative Suite 4 and Microsoft Office to Vital security patches, both in a single-and multi-platform environment.

The new pricing structure primarily addresses small and medium enterprises limited to 200 client machines. The Entire FileWave® software and inventory management suites will be sold for fixed prices for groups of 20, 50, 100, 150 and 200 clients. For example, an organization with 100 client computers will spend only $8,046.00 for the entire suite. This is a savings of 70% over previous pricing.

Companies with more than 200 clients will also be able to take advantage of the newer pricing. The price structure will allow current and prospective customer to pick and chose the components they would like to purchase giving the customer greater freedom to tailor an offer to their needs and price requirements.

FileWave® customers will receive regular updates, upgrades and technical support for free. Quality is still the most important thing for FileWave, so technical questions will get answered within 24 hours and the customer support is available 18 hours each day.

About FileWave

FileWave develops, sells, and integrates the software management tools FileWave® and Asset Trustee™. These products deploy, monitor, and manage applications in enterprise network environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh systems. Customers of FileWave include Nike, Gruner + Jahr, LEGO, Publicis and Viacom. For additional information, please visit http://www.filewave.com.

© 2009 FileWave and the FileWave logo are trademarks of FileWave and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. FileWave is patent pending. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective partners.

FileWave announces version 3.7 of its software management suite, FileWave™

Wil, Switzerland, January 8, 2009

FileWave, a technology leader for software management on the Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux systems, announces the release of FileWave 3.7 for Mac OS. In addition to distributing, installing and configuring operating system upgrades, FileWave permits users to efficiently mass deploy and manage all other types of software, from large ready-to-use applications such as Adobe Creative Suite 4 and Microsoft Office to vital security patches, both in a single- and a multi-platform environment.

FileWave™ 3.7, with its own significant performance enhancements and greater administrative flexibility, transforms the process of installing a complicated and time-consuming upgrade into a straightforward and hassle-free affair. FileWave™ 3.7 includes a new feature to re-image an entire computer. FileWave had always been able to deliver and remove software but now we've made it easier to duplicate an existing computer and have other computers have exactly the same software installed. To use the FileWave Imager the FileWave Administrator selects a mounted disk volume and creates a new installation from the mounted disk volume. Additionally, the Administrator can control pre and post-installation actions to preserve computer names and user settings.

"We are pleased to announce FileWave 3.7 with the imaging feature for the Mac OS," says Ben Forsyth, Director of Software Development at FileWave (USA), Inc. "We've had many requests from our customer base to provide a more seamless imaging solution and with FileWave 3.7, those features are now available."

About FileWave

FileWave develops, sells, and integrates the software management tools FileWave™ and Asset Trustee™. These products deploy, monitor, and manage applications in enterprise network environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh systems. Customers of FileWave include Nike, Gruner + Jahr, LEGO, Publicis and Viacom. For additional information, please visit http://www.filewave.com.

© 2009 FileWave and the FileWave logo are trademarks of FileWave and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. FileWaveTM is patent pending. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective partners.

FileWave announces version 3.6 of its software management suite, FileWave™

Wil, Switzerland, October 7, 2008

FileWave, a technology leader for software management on the Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux systems, announces the release of FileWave 3.6 for Mac OS, Winodws and Linux. In addition to distributing, installing and configuring operating system upgrades, FileWave permits users to efficiently mass deploy and manage all other types of software, from large ready-to-use applications such as Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Microsoft Office to vital security patches, both in a single- and a multi-platform environment.

FileWave™ 3.6, with its own significant performance enhancements and greater administrative flexibility, transforms the process of installing a complicated and time-consuming upgrade into a straightforward and hassle-free affair. FileWave™ 3.6 includes such new features as an "All Users" folder that allows a system administrator to deliver files to every user account on each computer. The Mac OS has been missing this functionality and FileWave 3.6 gives a needed help to enhance the Mac OS. Additionally, system administrators can chose to re-install Filesets, Patch Installers or Executables with the new Reactivate Filesets feature. While FileWave makes sure that installers and Filesets are run, some administrators need the seamless ability to force a re-installation and FileWave 3.6 gives adminstrators that power over their Mac OS and Windows clients.

"We are pleased to have a FileWave 3.6 shipping with these and many other minor enhancements," says Ben Forsyth, Director of Software Development at FileWave (USA), Inc. "we used this release as an opportunity to add many minor fixes and a few major features that our end user community has been looking for."

About FileWave

FileWave develops, sells, and integrates the software management tools FileWave™ and Asset Trustee™. These products deploy, monitor, and manage applications in enterprise network environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh systems. Customers of FileWave include Nike, Gruner + Jahr, LEGO, Publicis and Viacom. For additional information, please visit http://www.filewave.com.

© 2008 FileWave and the FileWave logo are trademarks of FileWave and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. FileWave™ is patent pending. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective partners.

A totally Windows-based version of FileWave™ that brings powerful yet easy-to-use software management tools to Windows system administrators

Wil, Switzerland, February 25, 2008

FileWave, a technology leader for software management on the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems, unveiled today the latest version of its software management suite, FileWave™ 3.5, for Microsoft Windows. FileWave™ makes the distribution, installation and configuration of software in multi-platform environments fast and uncomplicated, and this new release represents the first time that the FileWave Server, FileWave Admin and FileWave Booster run on the Windows operating system. Previous releases of FileWave for Windows required a FileWave Server and FileWave Admin installed on the Mac OS.

The FileWave WinAdmin allows a system administrator to manage all new software deployments and patches easily. It incorporates the majority of the functionality of the FileWave XAdmin in a brand new development specifically for Windows, and includes all the user interface improvements done on the XAdmin for version 3.5. Additionally, it fully supports the multiple administrator features developed specifically for FileWave 3.5.

"This is unprecedented for our company as this is the first time we are offering a FileWave Windows-only solution," explains Ben Forsyth, CEO and Head of Development at FileWave (USA), Inc. "Previous releases always required the back-end FileWave Server to run on the Mac OS. With FileWave 3.5 for Windows, however, our entire FileWave suite of software runs completely on the Windows operating system."

Here is an overview of the additional FileWave™ 3.5 for Windows features:

• Simultaneous login by multiple administrators
• Audit logging of administrator actions
• Access privileges for each administrator account
• User interface improvements with new icons and other UI improvements
• Performance improvements with login and updating server

About FileWave

FileWave develops, sells, and integrates the software management tools FileWave™ and Asset Trustee™. These products deploy, monitor, and manage applications in enterprise network environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh systems. Customers of FileWave include Nike, Gruner + Jahr, LEGO, Publicis and Viacom. For additional information, please visit http://www.filewave.com.

© 2008 FileWave and the FileWave logo are trademarks of FileWave and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. FileWave™ is patent pending. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective partners.

On 2nd and 4th March 2010, the FileWave team were presenting our FileWave and FileWave Inventory products at CeBIT 2010 alongside other premier manufacturers. Here's an overview of our time at the show:

Main Stage: Twice daily we presented the latest capabilities to the visiting IT specialists and showed them what makes FileWave truly different from other distribution tools that are currently on the market. Naturally our main emphasis was to convey our unique package management and to actually show live building of the "FileWave FileSets". Another new feature that was received particularly well was "FileSet Merge" which decreases the workload for the administrator whilst ensuring that the end user packages are always up-to-date.

Case Study presentation: It's always easy to perform a polished demo in a sanitised environment but to back up our live demo we decided to share the succesful story from one of our FileWave projects. Of course there are many examples we could have used but we felt tha one of the projects where we have made the biggest contributions and impact is the School District of Manatee County, Florida in the USA. The "before and after FileWave" detailed and highlighted how a mammoth project (distributing 30'000 client machines at 50 locations over an area twice the size of Berlin) became achievable.

Unlike many other companies, the fact that we presented a live demonstration of our product and then invited the audience to participate via a Q&A session both at the Main Stage and back in our booth within the OS X Business Park meant that we received a lot of praise and had a lot of positive discussion about our improved user interface and the new and enhanced funtionality within FileWave and FileWave Inventory which made the team both proud and look forward to attending the show next year.

We would like to thank all CeBIT visitors for coming along to support us and for all the helpful feedback we received at the show. We look forward to bringing you even more exciting news and updates in the coming months!

Während zwei Tagen, am 2. und am 4. März 2010, war FileWave im OS X Business Park vertreten und präsentierte dort neben anderen Ausstellern ihre Produkte FileWave und FileWave Inventory. Hier ein kleiner Rückblick auf die Expo:

Zweimal täglich wurden den Besuchern auf der Hauptbühne die neuesten Funktionalitäten unserer Software präsentiert sowie auf die Frage eingegangen, was FileWave von den anderen Software-Verteilungs-Tools unterscheidet, die zur Zeit auf dem Markt angeboten werden. Dabei wurde das Thema der Paket-Erstellung und -Verwaltung, "FileWave FileSets", besonders intensiv behandelt. Vor vollbesetztem Publikum wurde damit auch die neueste Funktion "FileSet Merge" präsentiert, welche mit dem Release von Version 4 den FileWave-Anwendern viel Arbeit abnimmt und dafür sorgt, dass die Pakete immer up-to-date sind.

Ebenfalls im Rahmen des Vortragsprogrammes wurde die Erfolgsgeschichte eines der bisher grössten FileWave-Projekte vorgestellt. Die Präsentation ging auf die Situation "vor und nach FileWave" des Schuldistriktes von Manatee County in Florida (USA) ein. Das Mammut-Projekt mit 30'000 Client-Rechnern auf 50 Standorte verteilt, in einem Areal das zweimal die Grösse von Berlin hat, eignete sich besonders gut, die Zuschauer des Vortrages staunen zu lassen.

Neben den Präsentationen wurden am FileWave-Stand die Software-Lösungen Live gezeigt, was bei den Besuchern grossen Anklang fand. Vor allem die verbesserte Benutzeroberfläche sowie die neuen und erweiterten Funktionalitäten in FileWave und FileWave Inventory haben für sehr viel Lob gesorgt und positive Diskussionen angeregt.

Hiermit möchten wir uns bei allen CeBIT-Besuchern für die sehr interessanten Gespräche und Feedbacks bedanken und freuen uns, Ihnen bald weitere Innovationen präsentieren zu dürfen!

You might have heard the announcement by Business Software Alliance's (BSA) regarding the expansion of its $1 million rewards program to report illegal software over the Internet. In order to stop you falling foul of this program FileWave is now offering our Inventory Software Suite for 60 days for FREE. Our Inventory program offers you the ability to scan, check and manage all software-licenses in every environment. 

The download for your time limited version of FileWave Inventory is accessible at

 www.filewave.com/2010.

 FileWave Inventory is a database built around MySQL. The Client is available across PC, Mac and Linux platforms. It dynamically collects all of the asset information about your hardware and software for both your desktop and mobile computers attached to your network. The Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface allows different applications to access data from the Inventory database or create a report as CSV or an Excel file, so that we can work totally independent or integrate directly into your helpdesk tools. So if you receive an unexpected visit by the BSA, Inventory presents up-to-date information about all IT Assets at the push of a button with no hassle or time loss to your team. You will not only have a clean bill of health but also will be able to provide it in a timely fashion.

Release of FileWave version 4.0

FileWave version 4.0 has been launched to great success, we've already had many customers upgrade from version 3 and we're looking forward to more and more customers updating in the coming weeks and months. The Mac production has been released and we are in the final phase for both the Windows and Linux builds, so look out for those versions on the customer board during February. The Windows release will be compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7 Clients and Windows Servers 2003 and 2007 versions; naturally these will have the same user interface as the Mac version. If you've not downloaded version 4.0 of FileWave, then we recommend that you download it, set up a test environment and start getting familiar with the changes and improvements we have made for you.

New FileWave team members

Almost two years ago, we spoke to our clients and then began development of FileWave 4 based on the ideas we presented at the annual FileWave conference and upon the feedback forums and from customers requests.  Last month, the FileWave team went on the road around Europe to present the version that we've developed from our roadmap and those requests.
We're proud to say that everywhere we showed FileWave 4 and Inventory 9 the attendees reactions were ones of total delight in what they saw and without fail they couldn't wait to get testing the new versions in their own environments.
“We are staggered with the reaction that we've received to the latest upgrades to our products, the new features that FileWave 4 offers for every kind of environment is huge”, says Thomas Kaufmann, Marketing & Communication speaker for the roadshows, “ We received such positive feedback from our presentations and all of the attendees were amazed at what a big step FileWave has made between Versions 3 and 4. The new solution presents itself as a System Lifecycle Management Suite which will redefine the cross platform software market and again reinforce us as the market leader”.
We want to thank all attendees again not only for coming to the roadshow events but also for supporting us by giving us their opinion and new requests over the past two years. Please keep the information coming at us, we love the challenges you set us.

Client:
- Communicates via SSL sockets with the FileWave Server
- Remove non-FileWave Installed files and folders
 
Admin:
- New UI
- Fileset Groups
- Clone Groups
- Smart Groups - automatic associations to Filesets based on LDAP Group   Membership and System Configuration Details
- Fileset Merge
- Remove non-FileWave Installed files and folders
- Control Access to every Filesets , Fileset Groups and Client Groups
- ACL’s Configuration of Folders
 
Booster:
-  Communicates via SSL sockets with FileWave Clients

Server:
- Communicates via SSL sockets with FileWave Clients
- Set Status to Associated at Update Time
- Faster and more reliable
- New Background DB in SQL Lite

During three days in September you can enjoy various talks by computer experts, such as Nurdan Eris  - CEO and founder of FileWave - who will be giving a speech at the congress and present you the latest developments of the products FileWave™ and FileWave Inventory.

Her presentation will take place on Thursday, September 17 2009 starting at 4.45pm in the Burgårdens Konferenscenter, in the heart of Gothenburg, Sweden. 

For further information about the program and highlights of the congress have a look at

 http://www.macsysadmin.se/2009/Home.html and don’t hesitate to sign in, as there is only a limited number of seats.

Thomas Kaufmann is looking forward to seeing you there and catching up with you!

FileWave covers the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) criterion where critical user data have to be protected against unauthorized access by third parties.

We can guarantee a system lock out for a preset time frame (of say two minutes inactivity) with a password re-entry. For that purpose we provide a fileset containing a shell script. In order to make sure the system lock is definitely enabled this script is executed each time a user logs in. There is no need anymore to enable this function via Open Directory user management console.

This script runs on the following systems:

- OSX Tiger PPC and Intel

- OSX Leopard PPC and Intel all kind of hardware.