CA'S Unicenter TNG to Manage IT Environment At Microsoft's Business Applications Conference

Business Wire, August 19, 1998

ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 19, 1998--

Industry-Leading Enterprise Management Solution Provides

End-to-End Monitoring, Administration and Security for Showcase

Multi-Vendor Setting

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced that its industry-leading enterprise management solution, Unicenter TNG, has been selected to manage the multi-vendor computing environment at Microsoft's first annual Business Applications Conference. The conference, to be held September 9-11 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, will showcase business solutions from a wide range of developers and integrators built on Microsoft's core technologies, including Windows NT Server 5.0, BackOffice, COM and Visual Studio.

Unicenter TNG will provide complete, end-to-end management of the conference's demonstration environment, delivering maximum availability, performance and security. Through its unique Real World Interface distributed with Windows NT 5.0, Unicenter TNG will correlate and filter a large and diverse range of events from all network and systems resources in the environment. The environment will include hubs and Cisco routers, SQL databases, Windows NT and business applications from multiple vendors.

Attendees will get a first hand-look at how Unicenter TNG can manage SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Internet Information Server, Microsoft Transaction Server, and Windows CE devices, along with ERP applications from leading providers such as SAP and BAAN. Various complementary CA management applications, such as Inoculan for virus protection, will be installed as part of the conference's comprehensive Unicenter TNG-based solution. Also on display will be CA's Jasmine object data base, which is integrated with Microsoft's OLE DB Component Object Model.

"Effective, cost-efficient management is clearly part and parcel of any smart business solution, especially when your company's bottom line depends on having that solution up and running on a continuous basis," said James Utzschneider, director of line of business evangelism at Microsoft. "By making Unicenter TNG part of our demonstration environment, we're showing our customers how they can maintain the performance and uptime they need to ensure maximum return on their business application investments."

"The reliability and security of business applications is just as important to conference attendees as the various particulars of the solutions they'll be seeing," said Ken Farber, CA senior vice president of strategic business alliances. "This event presents IT decision-makers with an excellent opportunity to see Unicenter TNG in action as a fully integrated cross-element command-and-control console for a complex distributed computing environment." In addition to managing the conference's demonstration environment, Unicenter TNG management technology will also be showcased in the keynote presentation and other conference events. Rather than demonstrating specific products, the conference offers corporate developers the opportunity to see how customized business solutions can be built around strategic Microsoft technologies. As an integrated component of Windows NT Server 5.0, the Unicenter TNG Real World Interface is included among those key technologies.

The Microsoft Business Applications Conference is the first time that Microsoft will present ISVs, corporate developers, custom application developers, strategic planners/architects and systems integrators with in-depth, technical information, presented in the form of business scenarios. The goal of the conference is to provide attendees with technical information and scenario tool kits, delivered via five conference tracks designed around technologies and solutions rather than specific products.

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 enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998. CA can be reached by visiting www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com, or calling 1-516-342-5224.

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CONTACT: Computer Associates, Islandia

Pam Leeds, (516) 342-2377

or paml@cai.com