Verdiem was a software corporation based in

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, USA. The company was backed by

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. The company was acquired by Aptean on January 12, 2015. Verdiem produced the ''Surveyor'' enterprise-class PC power management software. Surveyor enabled customers to centrally control and reduce the energy used by PCs, Macs, and network devices running

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EnergyWise without affecting end users.

Surveyor

Surveyor was Verdiem's enterprise class

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software. The product allowed the central administration of power management settings for networked PCs. Later releases included a Sustainability Dashboard.

Case study

A Salix report contrasted similar sized (3,500)

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and Verdiem projects at the

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and the

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with payback periods of 0.5 and 2.5 years respectively.

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