Cybermation's ESP Espresso Included in the Crossroads A-List Awards; UNIX/Windows-based Solution Wins Best 'Enterprise Job Scheduling Product' Category.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2003

Cybermation Inc., a leading developer of enterprise automation solutions, has been named the best "Enterprise Job Scheduling Product" in the Crossroads 2003 A-List Award program for its UNIX/Windows solution, ESP Espresso. The award is an important milestone for Cybermation because it validates the superiority and acceptance of the company's solutions.

The Crossroads A-List program is now in its tenth year and has made a name for itself as the identifier of the best emerging products, technologies, and services that are transforming business today. Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA) grants the award to a provider that has successfully combined the three elements essential to mainstream adoption: strategic focus; a viable product, technology, or service offering; and, most importantly, the delivery of consistent business results.

"Winning a Crossroads A-List Award is an accomplishment for Cybermation because Open Systems Advisors, Inc. has recognized the company as being a major player in the field of job scheduling, demonstrating that our solutions are playing a substantial role in our customers' enterprises," stated Ray Nissan, Cybermation CEO and chief technology architect. "Being validated by our customers is the most gratifying part of the award because it is in keeping with our vision to have our customers enthusiastic about our solutions."

As 2002 proved to be a challenging year for IT enterprises, the Crossroads program is designed to recognize technology solutions that can really help businesses do more with less during this challenging recession. Successful candidates eligible for the Award proved that they were committed to retaining customer loyalty, improving agility and productivity, cutting infrastructure cost, and reducing risk.

According to Nina Lytton, President, Open Systems Advisors, Inc., "In 2003, the Crossroads A-List Award winners have demonstrated they have delivered business results for early adopters in a particularly difficult economy. They are ready for mainstream consideration and poised to flourish in the years ahead."

Part of the due diligence performed by OSA includes interviewing a provider's customers to determine whether their offerings have proven their value in the field. Cybermation's customers have stated that, "Not only is ESP Espresso amply justified by savings on IT staff time and infrastructure costs, but it also provides an invaluable degree of confidence. The business is no longer subject to data-center errors that compromise the brand image with embarrassing service interruptions." According to Lytton, "the larger the data center, the greater the benefit delivered by Cybermation ESP Espresso."

About Cybermation

Cybermation Inc. is recognized by its many Global 2000 customers as a leading developer of automation solutions for job scheduling, workload management and software change management for heterogeneous computing environments. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. Cybermation's customers include Allstate Insurance, CN Rail, Delta Air Lines, Gap Inc., Honda, McDonalds, Nike, The Bay, UPS, and Verizon in North America and T-Mobile UK, Sony, VHV and Janssen Pharmaceutica in Europe.

Cybermation products include ESP Workload Manager(R) and ESP Espresso(TM), enterprise-wide job scheduling and workload management for OS/390(R), UNIX(R), Windows NT(R) and OS/400(R) operating systems and for SAP R/3(R), Oracle(R) and PeopleSoft(R) ERP environments; ESP Workstation(R), a graphical user interface for enterprise scheduling from a single point of control; ESP Encore(R) for automated rerun, restart and recovery; and ESP Alchemist, enterprise software change management for software development and data-center production environments.

About Open Systems Advisors, Inc.

Founded in 1989, Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA) helps organizations understand and align business priorities with technology investments. OSA provides confidential, objective advice to industry leaders making major business decisions about technology investments. This includes marketing services, industry analysis and due diligence, and management summits. OSA helps technology vendors improve sales with short, crisp messages that paying customers understand. OSA works with businesses to understand their best opportunities for technology investment. OSA leads private-label meetings for providers and their partners and customer organizations to recognize the linkages and priorities across organizations and business ecosystems.

OSA conducts research under its Crossroads brand that includes the publication of the Crossroads Decisions, conferring of the Crossroads A-List Awards, and production of the Crossroads Conference.

The company can be reached at 24 West Cedar Street, Boston, MA 02108 Telephone [phone], Fax [phone], www.crossroads-osa.com, [e-mail].

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