CA CLIENT/SERVER MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE SWEEPS RIVAL SAP IN DEFINITIVE NEW SURVEY; Tops Competitor In Both Midrange And Client/Server MRPII In Manufacturing Systems' Readers Choice Awards

Business Wire, Sept 15, 1995

ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1995--CA's manufacturing solutions out-polled rival SAP America in both midrange and client/server systems categories in the 1995 Readers Choice Survey conducted by a leading enterprise manufacturing publication, Manufacturing Systems.

CA was the only vendor to be ranked in the top two in both categories, beating SAP, Oracle and more than a hundred other MRPII vendors. The publication queried corporate, production, IS and other managers from more than 7,000 manufacturers across the nation. The manufacturing professionals were asked to choose the products that "truly make a difference in the quality and productivity of your work."

"Winners of our Readers Choice Awards had to meet some very high expectations," said Kevin Parker, editor of Manufacturing Systems. "Our readers want information technology that gives them real-time visibility to everything happening in their company, that can change as their business does, and that's easy to implement and use."

Manufacturing Systems cited Groth Corporation's use of CA's client/server manufacturing solution, CA-Manman/X, as an award-winning example of using a single system across four company divisions that have substantially different businesses. "The fact that we can tailor the product to meet the needs of each division is, for us, a major victory," said Bob Bacon, chief financial officer of Groth Corp., Houston, Texas.

"Clients are bullish on CA because we provide flexible manufacturing solutions that can be tailored to their business needs, not the other way around," said David Cahn, CA director of product strategy. "In today's fast-paced and competitive manufacturing environment, organizations need to re-engineer their business on-the-fly to meet market demand, not re-work their business to meet the demands of their software."

Computer Associates provides midrange, client/server manufacturing software for the IBM AS/400 and a variety of UNIX platforms. More than 10,000 clients around the world depend on CA manufacturing solutions to automate operations and management, from product planning to customer delivery.

Results of the survey are published in Manufacturing Systems' September 1995 issue.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include systems and database management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has 9,000 people in 130 offices in 36 countries and had revenue of $2.6 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. CA can be reached by visiting its homepage on the worldwide web (http://www.cai.com). -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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