Allen Systems Group Announces Acquisition of French Software Company.

NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1998--Allen Systems Group (ASG) today announced its recent acquisition of IMPACT Software Technologies (IMPACT ST), a software development firm based in Mulhouse, France. The acquired firm has developed a computer program known as DK2, which will join ASG's suite of data center automation products.

Art Allen, President and CEO of ASG, said the acquisition was finalized in late February. "ASG is extremely excited about this acquisition. With the addition of IMPACT ST and DK2, we can offer our customers the ability to see their computing environments in a way never before possible."

According to Mr. Allen, IMPACT Software Technologies was formed in 1997 by Mr. Andre' Karchoud, a French computer scientist and entrepreneur. "Mr. Karchoud created the DK2 analyzer and formed IMPACT ST to develop and market his visionary product," Mr. Allen said. "IMPACT ST and DK2 are already contributing to the success of 40 large corporations located in France, Belgium, and Switzerland. The program is extremely robust and well designed. It is next-generation technology and we envision tremendous success marketing this innovative product."

Mr. Karchoud, IMPACT ST's President and General Director, said, "We are pleased to be joining forces with Allen Systems Group. We have put over 45 man-years into the development of DK2, and this new partnership will bring the product to the international marketplace. DK2's universal data library is based on Oracle's database technology, and is a complete client/server application for any IS organization."

DK2 is a graphical analysis tool that gives businesses a comprehensive view of their information infrastructure. DK2 analyzes software, hardware, and network components, then stores the components in a data library. Users can then browse through the library and explore each component as a graphical object, along with its interrelationship to the entire system. The program runs under Windows 95/NT client/server architecture.

Businesses can use DK2 to manage their information through graphics-based views of their computer systems. "The views are displayed as easy-to-understand flow charts that show all the interrelationships between programs," Mr. Allen said. "As such, information managers can investigate exactly what a program is doing, see which programs are contingent upon other programs, and immediately determine the effect of any change to the system."

In addition to analyzing a wide array of computing environments, such as MVS, VSE, VMS, and UNIX, the newly acquired product can analyze computer languages (including JCL, COBOL, and Assembler), as well as data (DB2, IDMS, DL1, and Oracle).

ASG will christen the new product "ASG-VISTA." The formal unveiling is scheduled for April 25-29 at CA-World, a trade show aimed at the mainframe computer market; however, ASG will begin immediately selling the program from its Paris office.

About Allen Systems Group (ASG)

Formed in 1986 by Art Allen, ASG is a recognized leader in the mainframe computer software industry. ASG offers data center automation tools, job control management tools, CA-IDMS utilities, consolidated service desk software, cross-platform file transfer utilities, and data entry systems. The company is based in Naples, Florida with international offices in Paris, France and Sydney, Australia. For more information, contact ASG at [phone], fax [phone], on the Internet at www.allensysgroup.com, or e-mail [e-mail].

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Allen Systems Group, Inc.

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