Addressing Emerging Needs for Comprehensive Asset Management, Tangram Is First to Offer an Automated Enterprise-wide Solution.

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 1995--For companies under pressure to leverage IT assets, make better informed purchasing decisions and provide more efficient PC support, Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc. now offers a solution that allows quick and automatic enterprise-wide asset management.

The solution inventories and tracks hardware, software and other assets to provide complete and current information to decision makers across the enterprise.

Tangram's asset management solution, available this month, automatically inventories an organization's IT assets and compiles the asset information in an open database. The inventories for workstations and servers can be scheduled to run as frequently as desired without any human intervention.

Users throughout the organization can query the asset database with an easy-to-use graphical interface or standard SQL query tools to receive up-to-the-minute inventory information whenever needed.

This comprehensive approach to asset management enables multiple departments to leverage a common repository of data. "Now Finance, Operations and the Help Desk can benefit from our centralized approach to asset management," said Steven F. Kuekes, vice president of technology, Tangram. "Our asset management solution allows Finance to generate complete, accurate reports whenever needed, Operations to know what is installed in all departments, and the Help Desk to determine the configuration of any workstation in the network -- automatically."

Companies moving to distributed computing environments are finding that they need to know more about their hardware and software to make decisions regarding retirements, upgrades and migrations. "To effectively determine the potential cost for an application rollout or upgrade in our client/server environment, we must have detailed client information," said Gary Schultz, senior systems specialist, The Progressive Corporation.

"Right now we use a purely manual process, and we think that automating this process will be extremely beneficial. Tangram's new asset management solution would allow us to automatically obtain the information that our application development managers need before they deploy mission-critical applications."

Since assets are constantly changing, Tangram's unique solution features a modular inventory mechanism that can be easily extended to find new asset data as the organization grows and as software and hardware technology evolves. Based on an open, relational Oracle database that automatically accommodates new assets, the common data repository enables users to add custom data to the database and to integrate off-the-shelf database tools easily.

Tangram's enterprise asset management solution will be available Oct. 31, 1995, in standalone and integrated versions. Tangram Enterprise Asset Inventory, the standalone product, starts at $37,500 for 500 clients, and Tangram Enterprise Asset Manager, the integrated product, starts at $75,000 for 500 clients.

For more than a decade, Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (OTC: TESI) has provided distributed resource management and connectivity solutions for major organizations throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Tangram's product lines support the leading, industry-standard client/server and local area network environments, including OS/2, Macintosh, DOS, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95, NetWare, UNIX and MVS, as well as a myriad of connectivity options such as APPC, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBIOS, SDLC, X.25 and asynchronous communications. Tangram is a member of the Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. partnerships of companies. -0- All product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

CONTACT: Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc., Raleigh

Jae Cody, 919/851-6000, ext. 278