Essent can help you climb all sorts of tricky technological mountains. The company provides software, services, and support for information management systems, including products to track information on accounting, customers, inventory, fulfillment and shipping, e-commerce, and customer relationship management activities. Essent's customers come from such fields as financial services, health care, manufacturing, and transportation. The company has strategic partnerships with Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Symantec. Essent was founded in 1981.