1E is a
privately owned
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IT software
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At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
and services company based in the
United Kingdom
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. 1E is headquartered in
London
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, with offices in
New York City
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,
Dublin
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, and
Noida
Noida, short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, is a planned city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Noida is a satellite city of Delhi and is a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) o ...
.
History
1E was founded in 1997 by three former
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
contractors, Sumir Karayi, Phil Wilcock, and Mark Blackburn, who each contributed £500 to start the company.
[ ][ ] Karayi is now the CEO, Blackburn is the CIO, whilst Wilcock has left the company.
The company has more than 30 million licenses deployed worldwide, across 1,700 organizations from public and private sectors in 42 countries.
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The company's name is derived from a computer error. When some Microsoft Windows computers crash, a blue screen containing "STOP 0x0000001E" appears.
This name was chosen because the founders had the ambition that 1E could prevent this from happening to big companies.
Research
In 2009 1E and the
Alliance to Save Energy
The Alliance to Save Energy is a bipartisan, nonprofit coalition of business, government, environmental, and consumer groups based in Washington, D.C. The Alliance states that it advocates for "energy-efficiency policies that minimize costs to so ...
commissioned independent research into the awareness and behavior of PC users and server administrators in the world's largest companies.
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.
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In 2016 1E released the Software Usage and Waste Report 2016, which discovered that 38% of enterprise software was going to waste, equating to billions of dollars in waste.
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References
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Software companies established in 1997
Software companies of the United Kingdom