Aelita Software Group Partners With Computer Associates to Integrate Aelita Enterprise Suite With Unicenter TNG.

POWELL, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1999--

Aelita Joins CA's Unicenter TNG Development Partner Program

Aelita Software Group, a provider of enterprise-level management solutions for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems, announced today it has joined the Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) Unicenter TNG Development Partner Program. As a Development Partner, the company will integrate its Aelita(TM) Enterprise Suite (AES) products with Unicenter TNG, CA's industry leading end-to-end enterprise management solution.

Aelita Enterprise Suite is an integrated set of systems management and security administration tools for Windows NT/2000-based networks. AES solves pressing management challenges and simplifies the transition to Windows 2000 and Active Directory. Clients can integrate and manage Windows NT, Microsoft Exchange and Windows 2000 Active Directory, reconfigure domains and prepare for migration to Windows 2000. AES also can delegate user management, analyze, audit and clean up a directory structure.

The tight integration of Aelita Enterprise Suite and Unicenter TNG reduces the total cost of ownership and enhances manageability of complex cross-platform networks. Integration with the Unicenter TNG Object Repository and Worldview APIs will provide network administrators with a single unified management platform and the ability to monitor in business context and launch Aelita Enterprise Suite components, along with other enterprise computing assets. By leveraging the Unicenter TNG Business Process Views and Aelita's agents, clients will be able to present information about network management processes inside the Unicenter TNG Real World Interface. In addition, the integration offers improved automation of the standard management procedures and proactive policy-based management.

"Enterprise-wide Windows NT deployments require effective network management," commented Andrei Pozolotin, Aelita Software Group Vice President of Business Development. "Our partnership with Computer Associates and the integration with Unicenter TNG provides our customers with solutions that address today's most pressing IT management challenges arising from the need to centralize and integrate the administration of Windows NT and legacy systems."

The first components of the suite to be integrated with Unicenter TNG are ERDisk(TM) and Aelita Delegation Manager. ERDisk creates an Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) for any number of Windows NT workstations or servers remotely and across an entire network, for all domains, and saves ERDs in a specified location. Aelita Delegation Manager offers advanced user and domain management solutions for Windows NT- and Windows 2000-based enterprise networks, enabling the creation of a Windows 2000-like directory structure and delegation of administrative authority across multi-domain networks.

"Our partnership with Aelita gives clients another choice to help increase network reliability and security while decreasing administration cost," said Mike LaTorraca, vice president of development partner programs at CA. "We are pleased to welcome Aelita as CA's newest partner, and we look forward to working with them to provide solutions that address our mutual customers' most pressing IT needs."

Unicenter TNG

By automatically managing the enterprise computing environment, Unicenter TNG optimizes the availability of business-critical services to help reduce the total cost of ownership. Enterprise assets -- including Internet/intranet and even non-IT equipment, like automated teller machines -- can be managed based on the business processes they support. Comprehensive and integrated out-of-the-box functionality, an intuitive Real World Interface, and self-learning, predictive neural network Neugent technology, make Unicenter TNG easy to deploy and use, resulting in a rapid return on investment that increases over time.

Aelita Software Group

Aelita Software Group is a leading provider of integrated management solutions for Windows NT- and Windows 2000-based enterprise networks. Focusing on the Microsoft enterprise platform, Aelita offers a suite of products that provides simplified, scalable and cost-effective solutions for proactive network directory and user management, security administration, emergency protection and disaster recovery. For more information, contact the company at [phone] or [phone] or visit the Aelita Web site at http://www.aelita.net.