IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization
Announces a New Program – TagVault.org
Piscataway,
NJ, 13 July 2009 — The IEEE Industry Standards
and Technology Organization (ISTO) announces a new program
focused on revolutionizing software asset management by
effective implementation of standards — TagVault.org.
TagVault.org,
a technical, membership-driven organization has been founded
as the certification authority for ISO/IEC 19770-2 software
identification tags (SWID tags). In addition to being a
certification authority, TagVault.org's mission is to provide
a forum for information sharing resources among software
publishers, tool providers and software asset management (SAM)
entities and to provide a shared library of technical
knowledge and software tools including consistent
cross-vendor, cross-platform APIs.
ISO/IEC
19770-2 is a pending international SAM standard, offering
standardized nomenclature and schema structure for software
identification tags, providing authoritative identifying
information for installed software or other licensable
items.
Founded
by CA, ModusLink OCS and Symantec, TagVault.org was created to
streamline commerce in the software market by providing
accurate and authoritative software identification. Accurate
software identification procedures have not previously been
available for multiple vendors or platforms in any
standardized manner. Lack of accurate software identification
is a problem for the software market because this information
is the basis for software license reconciliation and is
required when determining projected software purchasing
requirements. TagVault.org is making software identification
more accurate and authoritative as well as easier, less
resource intensive and faster for the three major pillars of
the SAM eco-system -- software publishers, software purchasers
and SAM tool providers.
"Interest
in the ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard and TagVault.org has been
phenomenal. Customers are demanding data to automate the
license entitlement reconciliation process, and software
publishers are seeking to provide this information in a
cost-effective, industry-standard manner,” said Steve Klos,
executive director of TagVault.org. "As a trusted and neutral
organization, TagVault.org is uniquely placed to help drive
much needed consistency in the software asset management (SAM)
market."
TagVault.org
is concentrating on three work areas:
- Software Identification Tag Certification -- allowing
software publishers, SAM tool providers and end-user
organizations to reliably count on and use authoritative
software identification information
- Tools and Services -- for standardizing the creation and
management of software identification tags
- Communications Forums -- for information exchange among
software publishers, software tool vendors and software end
user organizations
“TagVault.org
joins ISTO’s expanding federation of standards and technology
consortia, and we are pleased to work with its founders to
launch and support its future activities,” said Peter Lefkin,
marketing and business development executive for IEEE-ISTO.
“TagVault.org will draw benefits from ISTO’s operational,
strategic, and conformity assessment expertise having
supported over thirty (30) diverse programs since its
inception.”
Companies
interested in joining should visit the TagVault.org website here.
About
IEEE-ISTO
IEEE-ISTO
is the premier trusted partner of the global technology
community for the development, adoption, and certification of
industry standards. Its mission is to facilitate the
life-cycle of industry standards development through a
dedicated staff committed to offering vendor neutrality,
quality support and member satisfaction. Fostering the market
acceptance, adoption and implementation of standardized
technologies, ISTO Programs span the spectrum of today’s
information and communications technologies. To learn more
vist the ISTO website here.
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