CA DELIVERS THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN BUSINESS AND COMPUTING; CA-Unicenter TNG: Real-World Management Of The "Wired Enterprise".

ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 1996--Bringing a business perspective to enterprise computing, Computer Associates announced today the availability of CA-Unicenter TNG (The Next Generation), the first software management application that enables companies to understand how information technology (IT) conditions are affecting the business.

With the dependence of modern businesses on distributed enterprise computing and the Internet, the lack of sophisticated management software for these environments has drastically inhibited companies from using new technology to drive their businesses. Diverging from traditional approaches to management, which focus on individual computing resources, CA-Unicenter TNG revolutionizes the way IT systems are managed.

"Yesterday's IT management tools were useless to a business manager," said Computer Associates Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang. "They answered, 'the network router has a fault' when the manager was asking 'how's payroll?' How many payroll managers have even heard of a network router?"

CA-Unicenter TNG establishes the missing link between IT and the success or failure of business operations. Business Process Views, a unique facility for identifying the collection of computing resources that comprise a business process, visually represent the status of each business process through the striking 3-D interface of CA-Unicenter TNG. This Real World Interface makes it easy to grasp relationships between computing resources, and enables managers to immediately assess the business impact resulting from problems or changes to those resources.

"With CA-Unicenter TNG, the manager can find out exactly how payroll is doing, or any other aspect of their business that relies on computers," said Wang. "It's a unique combination of science and philosophy, enabling technology to serve the business."

CA-Unicenter TNG is the next generation of CA's flagship product CA-Unicenter, the most successful management application for large-scale computing. The new release increases the scope of IT resources addressed by CA-Unicenter, from enterprise networks to personal computers. Even systems that are not traditionally tied to computing management software, such as environmental control systems, building security systems, and telephony systems, can be managed with CA-Unicenter TNG.

Securities analysts have embraced CA's product direction and have forecasted even stronger CA-Unicenter revenue growth.

"CA-Unicenter revenue growth has been phenomenal," said Drew Brosseau, an analyst with Cowan & Company, Boston, MA. "The availability of CA-Unicenter TNG should bolster this growth by broadening the appeal of CA-Unicenter to both customers and partners. CA-Unicenter revenue growth should increase more than 90% in fiscal year 1996, and approach $900 million in fiscal 1997."

IT industry leaders and analysts have also lined up in support of CA-Unicenter TNG, which provides a rich set of management functions and a robust management infrastructure to build complementary management solutions. Platform providers, such as Compaq, Data General, Digital, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, NCR, Netscape, Pyramid, Tandem and Unisys, along with more than a dozen software partners and service providers, are working with CA to help clients adopt a business-centric approach to IT management through CA-Unicenter TNG.

"CA-Unicenter TNG provides the first common ground to bridge the chasm between technology management and business management," said Sue Aldridge, Research Analyst and Senior Consultant with Patricia Seybold Group, Boston, MA. CA-Unicenter TNG has already been delivered to over 100 companies, including Lehman Brothers, MCI, and Tektronix. IT managers are rushing to adopt CA-Unicenter TNG because it uniquely provides end-to-end control, a global and intuitive view of business processes, and extensive customization facilities. "We're using CA-Unicenter TNG because it allows us to embed management controls into business-critical applications to a level not possible with any other technology we found before," said Steve Ruegnitz, First Vice President, Lehman Brothers, Jersey City, NJ.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has 9,000 people in 130 offices in 38 countries and had revenue of $3.2 billion in calendar year 1995. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing [e-mail] or calling 1-516-342-5224.

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