Avesta Teams With Computer Associates to Provide Comprehensive Service Management.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 1998--

Clients Benefit From a Combination of Avesta's Proactive Impact Management and Unicenter(R) TNG(TM) End-to-End Enterprise Management

Avesta Technologies, Inc. announced today a technology development partnership with Computer Associates International, Inc. that features the integration of Trinity, Avesta's IT service and impact management solution, IPnetWATCHER, Avesta's web-based realtime network monitoring solution, and CA's Unicenter TNG, the industry leading end-to-end enterprise management solution. Avesta has also joined the Computer Associates Development Partner Program.

With this integration, clients can benefit from Trinity's ability to isolate the root cause and cascading impact of an IT availability problem; IPnetWATCHER(TM)'s ability to monitor IP devices, applications and network services including Web, ftp, and mail; and Unicenter TNG's filtering, correlation, and proactive management of all events forwarded to the Unicenter TNG Event Management Console.

"To remain competitive, today's enterprise must match business requirements to IT service delivery," stated Andy Cooper, vice president of business development at Avesta Technologies. "The synergy between Trinity and Unicenter TNG provides a compelling solution for maximizing service availability. Additionally, the combination of IPnetWATCHER and Unicenter TNG provides additional solutions aimed at maximizing Web availability and integrity - especially for organizations with substantial intranet, extranet or Internet investments. We are pleased to be able to integrate our unique technology with Unicenter TNG - the leader in enterprise management."

Trinity's integration with Unicenter TNG allows users to analyze Trinity's root cause and impact information in the context of Unicenter TNG's enterprise management information to achieve a powerful solution for instantly diagnosing and acting upon IT problems. IPnetWATCHER's integration with Unicenter TNG allows users to manage and monitor Internet and extranet eb servers, and the ability to determine the rortner programs. "The integration of Avesta's Trinity and IPnetWATCHER with Unicenter TNG makes for a powerful combination."

Trinity is an IT Services Management solution designed to help IT organizations manage service requirements in complex distributed computing environments. Trinity uses a unique modeling technique that allows organizations to measure the quality of IT services as well as the business risks associated with IT failures. The combination of a data-driven enterprise model, scaleable object-oriented design, operations workflow orientation and personalized information delivery makes Trinity among the most advanced IT service management solutions in use. Trinity also delivers critical time-sensitive information to the appropriate individuals with Niagara, the Trinity client that uses a publish/subscribe technology, filtering and customized views.

IPnetWATCHER delivers real-time performance, fault monitoring and alerting to managers and users of IP and NT networks. It finds and concurrently tests local and remote NT, IP and SNMP devices, services and applications. It tests IP and NT devices and services and applications for availability and response time. Its website integrity testing allows for web site discovery, identification of broken links and content changes, as well as detailed testing of web-based applications, CGI scripts and databases. With IPnetWATCHER's alert filtering features, only relevant alerts are proactively sent out real-time via e-mail, pager, SNMP trap to any Java-enabled browser desktop and also directly to Unicenter TNG's Event Management console.

Unicenter TNG is an integrated enterprise management solution that enables organizations to manage all IT resources, encompassing heterogeneous networks, systems, applications, and databases. It provides comprehensive end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP, SNA, IPX/SPX and DECnet networks, and 40 platforms including desktops, Windows NT, UNIX, AS/400, NetWare and mainframe environments. Unicenter TNG is the only fully integrated management solution covering network discovery, topology, performance, events and status, security, software distribution, storage, workload, help desk, change management and other functions for traditional and distributed computing environments, as well as for the Internet and intranets. Unicenter TNG's intelligent manager/agent technology delivers highly scaleable management of the entire computing environment, including hardware and software.

About Avesta Technologies, Inc.

Avesta Technologies, Inc. is an information technology services management firm that helps organizations manage complex IT service, availability, impact and risk issues within the business context. Avesta customers include organizations with complex IT environments such as financial institutions, telecommunications carriers, ISPs, and IT service providers. Headquartered in New York City and privately held, the company was founded in late 1996 by executives from the financial services industry. Avesta's current products include IT service and impact management software, personalized IT information delivery software and professional services. Avesta can be reached at [phone], or by E-mail at [e-mail] URL: http://www.avesta.com. -0-

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