Equipment manufacturers are constantly being drawn into the software development by customers demanding management solutions for the hardware they provide. With little choice, manufacturers build and maintain these systems to facilitate the sale of the hardware and meet customer demands. Increasingly, these demands require more costly and advanced features than were previously required. By packaging Compass with OEM products, customers get the sexy graphical displays, powerful alarm and event management, trending and historical reporting tools, SNMP and other standards based interfaces, and an easy to use, expandable system. Our Compass Creator Development platform allows OEMs to produce the system at a fraction of what it would cost to build from the ground up. As new features and enhancements are incorporated into the Compass product, OEMs can offer them on to their customer. With Newpoint, OEMs can relieve themselves of costly software develop requirements, offer customers state of the art software (just like they do hardware), and create new revenue opportunities.