CA-Unicenter helps Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans manage computing processes.

ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December 18, 1996--

CA Enterprise Management Software To Provide Security, Administration

And Software Deployment For More Than 1,500 Workstations And Servers

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) announced today that Rocky Mountain Health Care Corp. (RMHCC), the administrative services company for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, has selected CA-Unicenter to manage the information technology network operations of the company's insurance programs.

As a $720 million health management company, RMHCC serves over one million clients through its managed care, health, dental, life, and worker's compensation managed care programs. In an effort to better control costs, the firm has recently focused on consolidating critical management functions by centralizing IT operations.

"With CA-Unicenter, we are better able to serve our customers while at the same time reducing expenses," said Doug Bach, RMHCC's director of technology support services. "Of all the solutions we evaluated, CA-Unicenter was the only tool on the market that met all our strict requirements, as well our expectations for the future."

CA-Unicenter will help manage RMHCC's extensive Windows NT-based network, which spans three states. "CA-Unicenter's functionality is impressive," said Ken Shirane, senior technical analyst at RMHCC. "CA technology will play an integral role in helping us secure, manage and deploy software on more than 1,500 servers and workstations."

For management of its remote resources, RMHCC is planning to deploy CA-Unicenter TNG (The Next Generation). CA-Unicenter TNG will allow the company's Denver, Colo.-based technicians to identify, monitor and resolve all IT enterprise functions from a convenient, centralized location.

CA-Unicenter provides comprehensive end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP, SNA and DECnet networks, and UNIX, Windows NT, AS/400, NetWare and mainframe platforms. Using scalable manager/agent technology, CA-Unicenter allows organizations to manage production environments through its integrated policy-based management infrastructure, common management applications and consistent graphical user interface. CA-Unicenter is the only fully integrated management solution covering network discovery, topology, performance, events and status, security, software distribution, storage, workload, help desk, and change management for traditional distributed computing environments, as well as the Internet and Intranets.

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 40 countries and had revenue of more than $3.5 billion in fiscal year 1996. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing [e-mail] or calling 1-516-342-5224.

Rocky Mountain Health Care Corp. manages the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, and subsidiaries Rocky Mountain Life, Occupational Healthcare Management Services (OHMS), and HMS, a dental benefit plan. RMHCC reported total combined revenues of $720 million for 1995, with earnings of $10.7 million. The corporation's 1,750 employees serve about 600,000 members in health care plans, 103,000 in dental plans, 151,000 in worker's compensation managed care programs and more than 550,000 beneficiaries of government health care programs. Visit the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado's Web site at http://www.bcbsco.com. -0-

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