Control Data Releases GUA2000 for Unprecedented User Administration Management.

ARDEN HILLS, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1998-- Control Data Systems, Inc. today announced Rialto(TM) Global User Administration 2000 (GUA2000), a high-quality, real-time solution that allows organizations to centralize and manage system access for hundreds of thousands of users from a single web interface.

The directory-enabled GUA2000 allows new users or users changing roles to become productive more quickly, and it enables organizations to quickly remove access to the network in the event that an employee leaves or changes responsibilities.

GUA2000 uses the Rialto(TM) Global Directory/Meta Edition, with its unique LDAP metaconnector technology to access user administration information for multiple environments dynamically, in real-time, while logically joining the information in the Global Directory. The metadirectory provides a field-proven, scalable directory backbone for all of the tools that are being managed by GUA2000. The combination of GUA2000 and Global Directory provides a "two-dimensional" scaling across multiple application types and, using the distributed directory, allows scaling across geographies literally around the world.

Global customers worldwide are currently leading their industries on a path toward enterprise integration, using GUA to save millions of dollars in annual costs by simplifying user administration and reducing opportunities for error.

"Handling some 6,000 user changes each day can be a time

consuming and costly exercise," said Dr. Martin Armitage, head of the Global Infrastructure Organization at Unilever. "But until recently, that's what Unilever had to undertake."

"Even worse, each technology used a different process and tool. With GUA riding on the worldwide directory infrastructure we already have in place, we can simplify this with a common process and browser software used by our Service Desks, improving user service and reducing administration costs. This is a key element in a global program to reduce our total administration costs by 30%," Armitage explained.

"This new release of GUA2000 adds Security Management to the E-mail, Notes and NT resources we already manage through GUA. We look forward to extending this further into the areas of Database and ERP system administration," Armitage said.

GUA2000 features a simple, easy-to-use, customizable user interface based on standard web-based Java technology. In addition to support for Windows NT, Lotus Notes and Control Data's IntraStore, GUA2000 extends its administration capabilities to UNIX, NDS, Microsoft Exchange and the Entrust security management system. The release is available now on UNIX (Sun Solaris(R)) and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX. It will be available on Microsoft Windows NT in the first quarter of 1999. The price for an entry system including integration is in the $50,000 range.

GUA2000 is an extremely cost effective solution, since it centralizes the routine administrative processes of multiple system types without requiring expensive changes to the rest of the infrastructure.

"Instead of spending millions of dollars on a systems management investment that may or may not succeed, GUA2000 allows organizations to achieve substantial ROI at a fraction of the cost," said David Folsom, Chief Technology Officer for Control Data.

GUA2000 is an excellent example of a new breed of directory-enabled applications that are changing the landscape of enterprise computing.

"Directories have evolved from locally available, application-specific tools that synchronize information sources to enterprise-wide tools that provide infrastructure and data sharing capabilities," Folsom added.

GUA2000 supports most popular enterprise systems today, and can be easily extended due to its reliance on emerging industry standard protocols.

Control Data Systems, Inc. delivers E-Commerce solutions that help organizations transform the way they do business through web, messaging, directory and security technologies and services. With its Rialto(TM) brand of directory-enabled software tools and services, the company is focused on the architecture, implementation and lifetime support of digital commerce and enterprise-wide client-server solutions for business and government. For more information, call 1-888-742-5864 in the U.S. (1-651-415-2999 internationally) or visit our Web site at www.cdc.com.