New Access Capture Module!

Access Capture Echo

Stop Chasing Versions.

Start Staying Ahead.

Evergreen IT was never really a tooling problem. It is a knowing problem. Vendors ship when they ship, your estate depends on a few hundred things that matter and several thousand that do not, and nobody has the hours to watch all of it.

Capture Echo turns that into a subscription. You curate the device drivers and applications your estate actually depends on. Echo watches the vendor sources, retrieves each new release, and tells you when something you subscribed to changes. With Access Capture behind it, that signal becomes a packaged, tested, ready-to-deploy output.

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Why We Built It

From Evergreen Ambition

to Evergreen Practice

Every organisation we work with has already agreed, in principle, to evergreen. With evergreen, you stay current, supported, and secure, so the principle is not in dispute. Putting it into practice is where it falls apart.

There are three common failures that occur:

  • Somebody finds out about a critical driver three weeks late, typically from a support ticket.
  • Somebody else maintains a heroic spreadsheet of versions that is only accurate on the day it is first written.
  • Teams who solve the watching problem (monitoring all critical app and driver updates) solve it by downloading everything, creating a repository nobody trusts and nobody prunes.

Capture Echo is deliberately not a catch-all repository. It is a short list that you define and that is then kept current on your behalf. It can also be connected to automation tools that turn new releases into deployable packages.

"We make the Complex - Simple"

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How It Works

Built Around Three Steps, In Order

Echo is a sequence where each step only makes sense because of the one before it.

01

Curate

Nothing is tracked because it exists. You decide what matters. 

  • Paste a vendor support URL to onboard a device
  • Subscribe at the device, category, package, or individual file level
  • Track applications from vendor sites, GitHub, GitLab, Winget, or Chocolatey
  • Your curated list is the product

02

Detect

Echo does the around the clock watching and the fetching.

  • Vendor sources are checked continuously
  • New releases are retrieved and held ready with checksums
  • You are notified at the level you subscribed to
  • Version, release date, size, and vendor priority are all surfaced together

03

Deliver

With Access Capture, the notification starts another automated process.

  • Your Echo subscriptions feed straight into Capture Packaging
  • Capture Packaging is compatible with any packaging format and standard
  • Smoke and user acceptance testing take place automatically
  • The packaged and tested output is published to your repository

Access Capture Evergreen

Echo is the Trigger. Access Capture is the Engine

This is the part that makes Echo more than a notification service. Access Capture already automates packaging, testing, and publishing. Echo automatically starts the process.

This closes the evergreen loop: a vendor publishes, Echo notices, Access Capture packages and tests to your standards, and a deployable output lands in your repository. It’s automation without support tickets, manual chasing, or hours spent figuring out what has changed.

Vendor

A new version ships

Vendors decide their own schedules for driver, BIOS, and application updates.

Capture Echo

Notices and retrieves

Files that you are subscribed to are pulled, checksums are recorded, and you are told.

Capture Packaging

Builds the package

Packages can be created in legacy or modern formats and to your packaging standards.

Capture Testing

Smoke testing and UAT

QA, smoke, performance, and user acceptance testing are all automated.

Capture Publishing

Published and ready to deploy

The tested output is prepared for controlled release, including through Intune.

Echo works on its own as a subscription and notification service. The automated packaging and testing steps require an Access Capture licence.

Under the Bonnet

Every Feature Is Built from Real Packaging Experience

Paste a URL to Get a Device

When you paste a vendor support URL, Echo returns the device with its drivers ingested and sorted into categories. It takes about a minute and it works on models it has never seen before.

Four Levels of Subscription

You can subscribe to a whole device, a driver category such as BIOS or audio, a single package, or an individual file. Notifications arrive at the specific level you chose to prevent notification of the same thing twice.

AI Source Identification

When you give Echo a product page, it determines the publisher, the product, and the best way to track it. It then reads the download page to pull out versions and variants without the need for per vendor hand-written scrapers.

Multi-Source Application Tracking

Applications can be tracked wherever they are actually hosted, e.g., a vendor's own download page, GitHub or GitLab releases, Winget, or Chocolatey. One subscription in Echo covers all of them.

Notifications that Respect Your Inbox

You'll receive a digest of what changed, deduplicated and grouped by your subscriptions. Vendor priority, such as critical, is applied to ensure urgency is visible without opening anything.

Verified File Detail

Every release carries its version, release date, file type, size, vendor priority, and checksums. This ensures you get full provenance and integrity.

Built by people who have been there

50+

Years of collective application packaging and migration experience

4

Levels of subscription granularity, from whole device down to a single file

24/7

Vendor watching, so being current does not depend on anyone remembering

Echo exists because our own packaging teams needed it. Now you can access it too.

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How Echo is Delivered

Get Echo Via an Azure Subscription. No Installation Needed

Capture Echo is delivered as an Azure subscription. You sign in with your Microsoft Entra ID tenant, subscribe through the Azure Marketplace, and Echo runs as a managed service. This means there is nothing to deploy, nothing to patch, and no Access IT Automation infrastructure sitting in your subscription.

Transacting through the Azure Marketplace means Microsoft handles the billing and your existing Microsoft vendor onboarding largely covers it. And where the offer is eligible, the spend can be drawn down against an Azure consumption commitment you have already made.

Option One

Access Capture Module 6

Already an Access Capture customer? Echo becomes the sixth module and the front end of your evergreen loop, feeding Packaging, Testing, and Publishing automatically.

Option Two

Standalone Subscription

You can buy Echo on its own for curated tracking, retrieval, and notifications. The Access Capture automation can be added later without changing your driver/application subscriptions.

Option Three

Azure Marketplace

Subscribe through the Azure Marketplace and procure Echo through your existing Azure agreement. Coming soon, alongside Capture Shift.

Who Is It For?

If Staying Current is Somebody's Problem, Echo is for Them

Endpoint and Desktop Teams

Teams responsible for drivers and firmware across a mixed fleet but who often find out about critical updates too late.

Packaging Teams

Teams who have to repackage the same handful of applications every few weeks because of vendor updates.

Spreadsheet Survivors

Teams that are trying to maintain a manual version matrix that is only accurate on the day it is written.

Security and Compliance

Teams that need evidence that current means current, with provenance and checksums.

Echo Pricing

Transparent Subscription Pricing

Subscription

TBC per subscription, per year
  • Unlimited curated devices and applications
  • All four subscription levels
  • Digest notifications to the addresses you choose
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With Access Capture

Included as Module 6 for existing customers
  • Automated packaging from every subscription
  • Automated smoke and acceptance testing
  • Prepared outputs held in your repository
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The Family

Capture Echo is Module 6 of Access Capture

Access Capture automates the ordinary across the whole application lifecycle. Five modules handle everything from discovery to deployment and migration. Echo adds the ability to automatically start the process.

Module 1

Capture Discovery

Consistently & repeatably gather installation details & documentation.

Module 2

Capture Packaging

Create legacy and modern packaging formats at scale without errors.

Module 3

Capture Testing

Automate QA, smoke, UAT, & performance testing.

Module 4

Capture Publishing

Controlled deployment to production, incl. through Intune.

Module 5

Capture Shift

Assess, plan, and execute SCCM-to-Intune migrations from one command center.

Module 6 • New

Capture Echo

Evergreen tracking of the drivers and applications critical to your organisation.

Evergreen Should Not Depend on Someone Remembering

Capture Echo is arriving on the Azure Marketplace shortly. If you would like to shape it before then, we are taking a small number of organisations into early access.

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