Computer Associates Opens Latin American Center for the Development of Unicenter TNG Agents.

SAO PAULO, Brazil--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1998--

Center To House Talent Dedicated To Creating Innovative New Agents For CA's Award-Winning Enterprise Management Software

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), today announced the inauguration of the Latin American Center for the Development of Agents of Unicenter TNG (CDLA -- Center of Development, Latin America). The new CDLA will house researchers, technicians and engineers dedicated to creating special agents for CA's industry-leading enterprise management software.

"As the de facto standard for enterprise management, Unicenter TNG will help address the most pressing IT management challenges in Latin America," said Elizabeth Dambock, CA's senior vice-president for Latin America. "Increasing our presence in markets that have normally been considered non-traditional such as hospitals, food distribution and transportation and environmental control."

With CDLA's structure we will be centralizing information and development agents for all of Latin America, and will be an important reference for the continent."

The Center, located in the city of Sco Paulo, and its satellite offices in Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico will combine their research effort to benefit clients deploying agent technology across Latin America.

"We have many innovative ideas and projects regarding agent technology in Latin America, but we couldn't finalize, organize and catalogue each one of them," said Walters Raszl, CDLA's coordinator. "With the new CDLA we will be able to broaden our technology to increase our presence in new industries and markets throughout the region."

An example of how the CDLA will benefit the end user and contribute to the local community is demonstrated in CA's agent implementation in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in hospitals.

"The use of Unicenter TNG agents in hospitals is vital to managing patients in the critical stage," said Andre Zambrini, Unicenter TNG specialist and product manager, CA-Brazil. "An ICU environment has to be strictly monitored and sterile. With Unicenter TNG, we can control and monitor critical information such as levels of liquids and oxygen, as well as heart rate from remote locations."

In Brazil, several agents are already under development by CA and third parties. For example, NCR, a major international partner of CA, has dedicated itself to the construction of agents to monitor the network of cash-dispensers. A current project includes the creation of agents for several projects involving banking automation.

"A small network of cash-dispensers may not represent major problems to the banks, but the networks spread out geographically can generate tremendous costs and a high rate of unavailability if not supervised," said Artur Camarotto, business manager at NCR. "With Unicenter TNG it will be possible to monitor the machines' conditions and anticipate problems."

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, Frame Relay and ATM 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 scalable management of the entire computing environment, including hardware and software.

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 over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998. CA can be reached by visiting www.cai.com, emailing [e-mail], or calling 1-516-342-5224.

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