Cybermation Announces Release of ESP Alchemist 5.3; New Product Brings Simplicity to Multi-platform Software Change Management Solutions.

BOSTON -- Cybermation, a leading developer of enterprise job scheduling and software change management (SCM) solutions, today announced at the 2005 SHARE conference in Boston the release of ESP Alchemist 5.3, the latest version of its SCM solution. Cybermation's ESP Alchemist 5.3 enables enterprises to consolidate SCM products and simplify management processes.

ESP Alchemist 5.3 brings simplicity to multi-platform SCM systems by supporting popular desktop integrated development environments such as Microsoft Visual Studio and the Eclipse open source toolkit, as well as supporting every major operating system in the marketplace.

ESP Alchemist 5.3 is the ideal single product solution for enterprises as it handles the entire software lifecycle from code development to deployment across all platforms. Through new product features, enterprises will see significant benefits including:

--Automation and acceleration of the entire software lifecycle leading to increased productivity with more control and less staff;

--Reduction of downtime in the production environment required to implement changes or to back-out changes to a previous known release;

--Provides developers a single software product that controls all SCM activities including: Release Management, Version Management, Build Management, Deployment Management, Approval Management, Concurrent Development Management and Lifecycle Management;

--Better historical tracking capabilities at any stage in the lifecycle enabling developers to debug and troubleshoot problems more easily and quickly; and

--Single audit trail and reporting database to determine what has changed or what is scheduled to change on all operating system platforms.

"Increased productivity and efficiency is crucial to all businesses today," said Ray Nissan, CEO of Cybermation. "ESP Alchemist 5.3 ensures and enhances simplicity within the data center environment. Cybermation's commitment has always been to offer solutions that bring simplicity to multi-platform SCM, and with ESP Alchemist 5.3 we continue to be a market leader for single-product solutions."

Companies such as Co-operative Financial Services, Co-operative Bank and Co-operative Insurance Society will be able to see benefits across the entire enterprise through new ESP Alchemist 5.3 features including, but not limited to:

--Enhanced communication with Cybermation's market leading agents;

--Enhanced indexing abilities that will significantly boost end-user performance;

--Direct support for source and executable deployment to Unix and Windows platforms;

--Simplified administration enabling users to quickly set-up the management of entities and their associated build and deployment activities; and

--Better administrative control over all user actions.

"With a view to move towards a simple single product solution to manage our current multi-platform environment, Co-operative Financial Services plans to work with Cybermation to migrate to ESP Alchemist 5.3," said Lee Barry, Operations Control Team Manager, Operations Acceptance, Co-operative Financial Services. "Product simplicity is instrumental to us, and Cybermation continues to be a leader in providing easy-to-use solutions."

About Cybermation

We make the complex, simple. Cybermation develops enterprise job scheduling and software change management solutions for automating mission critical IT processes. Over the last four years, Cybermation has been recognized as one of the fastest growing software vendors in our industry and as the largest vendor focused primarily on job scheduling. Cybermation has a dedicated team of experienced industry professionals to effortlessly install our solutions, train staff and support customers. We have industry-leading customer enthusiasm levels and an enviable list of Global 2000 customers, including Allstate Insurance, CN Rail, Delta Air Lines, Gap Inc., Honda, McDonald's, Nike, Hudson's Bay Company, UPS, and Verizon in North America and T-Systems UK, Sony, GE Capital and Janssen Pharmaceutica in Europe.

Cybermation has global presence, with offices throughout North America and Europe. Our enterprise solutions include ESP Workload Manager and ESP Espresso for job scheduling environments and ESP Alchemist for software change management environments. For more information, visit www.cybermation.com.

Cybermation(R) and ESP Workload Manager(R) are registered trademarks of Cybermation Inc. ESP Espresso(TM), ESP Business Agent(TM) and ESP Alchemist(TM) are trademarks of Cybermation International Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.