type private industry computer software founded 1997 headquarters london key people sumir karayi co founder and ceo products appclarity shopping nightwatchman nomad wakeup number of employees 250 website www.1e.com 1e is a privately owned it software and services company based in the united kingdom . 1 1e has offices in london new york city dublin and noida being headquartered in the first . the company develops software for managing and reducing costs in it known as software lifecycle automation . contents 1 history 2 products 3 research 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit 1e was founded in 1997 by three former microsoft contractors sumir karayi phil wilcock and mark blackburn who each contributed 500 to start the company . 2 3 4 karayi is now ceo blackburn is cio whilst wilcock has left the company . 2 today the company has more than 26 million licenses deployed worldwide across 1 700 organizations in 42 countries . its customers are drawn from public and private sectors across the world and include dell arup and ford motor company . the company s name is derived from a computer error . when some microsoft windows computers crash a blue screen containing stop 0x0000001e appears . 2 this name was chosen because the founders had the ambition that 1e could prevent this from happening to big companies . 4 products edit 1e is a software lifecycle automation company . 1e offers a suite of it software products including nightwatchman 5 a pc power management tool which manages power use for servers and pcs . included with nightwatchman is wakeup a wake on lan product used to power on pcs remotely for software updating and patching . 6 nomad 7 is an add on and enhancement to microsoft system centre configuration manager sccm which intelligently uses available network bandwidth to deliver operating system upgrades software deployments and patches . shopping 8 is an app store for the enterprise which replicates the user experience found with consumer app stores . appclarity 9 is a software asset management suite . appclarity base consumes and normalizes inventory data to licensed product names and provides assessments of usage of those products . appclarity reclaim allows users to create policies to automate removal reclaim of software based on usage version etc. appclarity compliance enables customers to track licenses entitlements rights limitations metrics contracts etc. and understand their compliance position . appclarity license demand packs provide accurate license demand calculations for complex metrics like oracle processor licenses or ms sql core licenses by consuming inventory data . research edit in 2009 1e and the alliance to save energy commissioned independent research into the awareness and behavior of pc users and server administrators in the world s largest companies . 10 11 12 13 the pc energy report revealed that nearly half of all corporate pcs in the us are not regularly switched off at night . this adds up to approximately 108 million work pcs being left switched on overnight costing us businesses in the region of 2.8 billion in energy costs . in terms of carbon emissions this equates to approximately 20 million tons roughly the equivalent impact of 4 million cars . 11 14 15 in 2010 1e commissioned vanson bourne to conduct research into help desk efficiency . the resulting report highlighted a number of challenges for it departments . more than a third of users perceive little or no value from the money their it department spends on them each year . more than 50 % of users have to chase every request they make at least once to make sure they receive the software they ask for and more than two thirds 68 % of users feel it would be quicker and easier to find and install software themselves rather than contacting their it help desk . 16 the software efficiency report published in 2011 with fast iis opinion matters and iaitam found extensive waste in unused software and shelfware accounting for 1.7 billion in the uk alone . responses found that 47 % of enterprises still use spreadsheets to record software licenses with 6 % still using a paper based filing system and a staggering 16 % using nothing whatsoever . 17 awards edit 1e s software and solutions have won a number of awards most recently when lloyds banking group won the computer weekly european user award for enterprise software private sector 18 as well as the green it awards 2013 and the sunday times best companies 2013 list . references edit bradbury danny 2007 10 11 . computer firms wake up to problem of always on pcs . businessgreen . archived from the original on 2009 12 03 . retrieved 2009 12 03 . a b c woods catherine 2008 07 16 . entrepreneur watches as web address value skyrockets . real business . archived from the original on 2009 12 03 . retrieved 2009 12 03 . grossman wendy 2003 04 14 . starting out . the daily telegraph . archived from the original on 2009 12 03 . retrieved 2009 12 03 . a b bridge rachel 2007 08 19 . firm was programmed to succeed . how i made it sumir karayi founder of 1e . the times . archived from the original on 2009 12 03 . retrieved 2009 12 03 . https www.1e.com nightwatchman erlanger leon 2008 04 21 . verizon wireless rings in desktop power savings . infoworld . archived from the original on 2009 12 03 . retrieved 2009 12 03 . https www.1e.com nomad https www.1e.com shopping https www.1e.com appclarity pc energy report 2009 uk pdf . 1e . harris interactive . 2009 03 25 . retrieved 2010 01 06 . a b pc energy report 2009 us pdf . 1e . harris interactive . 2009 03 25 . retrieved 2010 01 06 . pc energy report 2009 germany pdf . 1e . harris interactive . 2009 03 25 . retrieved 2010 01 06 . server energy and efficiency report 2009 pdf . 1e . kelton research . 2009 03 25 . retrieved 2010 01 06 . report from 1e and the alliance to save energy finds that organizations waste billions of dollars running idle computers press release . alliance to save energy . 2009 03 25 . study u.s. companies waste 2.8 billion annually to power idle pcs . environmental leader . 2009 03 25 . retrieved 2010 01 06 . helpdesk efficiency report . 1e . vanson bourne . 2010 . retrieved 2010 01 06 . software efficiency report . 1e . fast iis opinion matters iaitam . 2011 . retrieved 2010 01 06 . http mediacenter .1 e.com lloyds banking group and 1e win computer weekly european user award for enterprise software external links edit official website microsoft s best of breed solution retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 1e & oldid 741725934 categories software companies established in 1997software companies of the united kingdom navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page 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