Belarc develops and licenses Internet based products which help make personal computers easier to use and maintain by large enterprises, small businesses and individual consumers. Belarc's products are used for Software Asset Management

Software Asset Management

Software asset management is a business practice that involves managing and optimizing the purchase, deployment, maintenance, utilization, and disposal of software applications within an organization...

, hardware upgrade planning, cyber security status, information assurance

Information Assurance

Information assurance is the practice of managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems and processes used for those purposes...

 audits, IT asset management

IT asset management

IT asset management is the set of business practices that join financial, contractual and inventory functions to support life cycle management and strategic decision making for the IT environment...

, configuration management

Configuration management

Configuration management is a field of management that focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a system or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.For information assurance, CM...

, and more. Belarc's products are in use on well over twenty million computers and are licensed by numerous customers including: AIG, Dana, Kindred Healthcare, NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, Unilever, WebMD/Emdeon.

Belarc Advisor

Belarc also offers the Belarc Advisor as a free download for personal use. The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) and FDCC (Federal Desktop Core Configuration) benchmarks, and displays the results in a Web browser. All of the profile information is kept private on the user's PC and is not sent to any web server. There are over 500,000 downloads of the Belarc Advisor every month.

History

Belarc was founded in 1996 by Gary Newman and Sumin Tchen. Dr. Jack Goldman, creator and visionary behind Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), was an early director of the company. Belarc is owned by its founders and employees.