AUSTIN, Texas – February 15, 2008 – Spiceworks™, Inc.., the provider of the industry’s first free ad-supported IT management software, today announced it has signed a deal with CMP’s TechWeb Network to deliver a co-branded version of Spiceworks IT Desktop to bMighty.com site visitors. bMighty (www.bmighty.com) is one of TechWeb Network’s fastest-growing sites delivering business technology news, information, tools, and insight targeted to small and midsize businesses. The Spiceworks IT management software is being offered for free to registered members of the bMighty IT decision-makers community. It is available for download at https://www.bmighty.com/util/download.jhtml?id=169200005&cat=spiceworks.
“The TechWeb Network continues to expand its ability to deliver application-based media – the combination of relevant business technology information with tools that help the 8 million IT and business technology decision-makers that rely on the network to get the maximum return from their innovation and investments,” said Leslie Brand, vice president of product development for the TechWeb Network. “The Spiceworks IT Desktop is a great example of an ideal tool for the bMighty audience of IT decision-makers at smaller organizations looking to better leverage technology with limited staffs and resources.”
Designed for networks with up to 250 networked devices, the Spiceworks application allows IT professionals to automatically discover, inventory, monitor, track and report on the hardware and software running in a network, while having access to an integrated help desk and IT expert community collaboration capabilities. The free Spiceworks software is advertiser-supported – meaning users see relevant ads featuring topics useful to IT decision-makers adjacent to related content rather than paying subscription or software licensing fees.
“The Spiceworks IT Desktop provides an invaluable IT management tool for small and medium sized businesses,” said Jay Hallberg, co-founder and vice president of marketing for Spiceworks. “bMighty and the TechWeb network is a perfect channel to provide this application because its readers are technology-reliant businesses facing these issues every day.”
The Spiceworks IT Desktop is currently being used by more than 200,000 IT professionals in 194 countries at small and medium organizations. They rely on the Spiceworks IT Desktop to manage more than 9 million hardware devices and software applications that together support 6 million employees.
For more information or to download the free Spiceworks IT Desktop software, visit https://download.spiceworks.com/cobrand/bmighty/Spiceworks.exe.
About CMP
CMP is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event, and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as the TechWeb Network, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times, and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developers Conference, and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights, and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to https://www.cmp.com/news.
About TechWeb
The TechWeb Network is a uniquely valuable resource for IT professionals. By contextually linking related news, reviews, analysis, opinion, research, and conference offerings from CMP’s network of industry-leading technology brands, TechWeb Ntwork helps gather the technology information IT desicion-makers need faster. Additional benefits include varied content vehicles, including websites, utilities, email newsletters, peer to peer networking, threaded discussions and moderated roundtables.
TechWeb sites include: InformationWeek.com, IntelligentEnterprise.com, DarkReading.com. ByteandSwitch.com, bMighty.com and Lightreading.com.
For marketers the TechWeb Network offers the #1 online network for reaching IT decision-makers and is the leading online destination for decision making IT professionals with purchasing power. TechWeb is a network of tech sites, providing information and marketing services to the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide.