Princeton Softech's Compare for Servers Streamlines eBusiness Application Testing

Business Wire, August 4, 2000

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PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2000

Relational Data Comparison Tool Speeds Time-to-Market, Improves

Quality and Reduces Cost of Testing

Princeton Softech, a subsidiary of Computer Horizons Corp. (NASDAQ: CHRZ) that provides enabling software for developing and deploying high-performance eBusiness solutions, today announced Compare for Servers, the world's only data comparison tool for server environments that understands complex database relationships. Compare for Servers is designed to reduce development cost by streamlining the application testing process and is invaluable for developers, quality assurance testers and database administrators who need to verify and compare data in two or more sets of database tables or types.

According to an early user of Compare for Servers at a state Department of Revenue: "We process all the taxes for our state, and we use Princeton Softech's Compare for Servers to verify that our applications are executing properly. This will be particularly useful during our high volume year-end testing. Compare for Servers dramatically improves the quality of our testing, because it eliminates human error. Compare for Servers identifies changes to relational data, by analyzing before and after images from single or multiple tables. We know what to look for in terms of expected changes, but the value of Compare for Servers is that it automatically shows us the unexpected changes, which significantly improves the accuracy of our testing and reduces the amount of time it takes to deliver a high quality application."

Lauri Pietarinen, Team Leader for the Software Development Team of ATBusiness Communications Oy, an IT and new media company that specializes in systems integration and web-based solutions, states, "We have been using Compare for Servers to verify that changes made to our Web-based application for the Finnish Maritime Administration are correct. The application is based on an Oracle 8-database. With Compare for Servers we have been able to obtain a greater level of confidence when making bug-fixes and adding new features."

"Companies simply cannot afford to deploy a customer-facing eBusiness application if data integrity has not been thoroughly tested. You risk opening up your business to the outside world with an application that may not work as it should and the problem compounds itself rapidly; the risk of financial errors is just one part of the potential confusion," notes Roger Sparks, vice president of marketing, Princeton Softech. "Compare for Servers is designed to understand the complexities of relational data, and can very easily and effectively highlight all the data that changes as the result of a specific group of application functions. No other product on the market today can claim similar capabilities or benefits. Application problems that would otherwise be undetected can be resolved before production turnover occurs, thereby reducing costly trouble tickets or moving them to earlier in the development process. This represents a significant cost savings to the company. Compare for Servers completes a robust set of relational data management tools targeted directly at producing more reliable eBusiness applications."

Compare for Servers is part of Relational Tools for Servers 3.0, a suite of relational data management tools enabling companies to test applications with failsafe quality and deliver mission critical and eBusiness applications on time and within budget. Other products in this suite include Move for Servers, which extracts and moves referentially intact subsets of data between heterogeneous databases and Edit for Servers, which enables users to simultaneously browse and edit related data in multiple tables across different databases. "Using Relational Tools for Servers, our customers can quickly and easily refresh the test database, maintaining consistency during the testing process, which saves an enormous amount of time and improves the overall quality of the resulting application," affirms David Kanof, Development Product Manager. "In this way, our clients are confident that the test data will provide an accurate basis for program logic validation."

Relational Tools for Servers supports interoperability across Oracle, DB2 Universal Database, DB2 Universal Database for OS/390, SQL Server, Informix and Sybase databases. Pricing is based upon the number of seats, beginning at $6,400 for support of one specified enterprise database type.

About Princeton Softech

Princeton Softech (www.princetonsoftech.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Computer Horizons Corp., is a software products and services company that delivers leveraging technologies for enterprise-scale eBusiness solutions. Princeton Softech's component-based development tools enable customers to synchronize IT and business objectives while moving at eSpeed through the application lifecycle. The company's eData distribution and management technologies allow organizations to optimize data availability and deploy application data to the point of best business leverage. Over 2,000 of the world's largest companies in more than 30 countries use Princeton Softech's products and services.