Cybermation Announces Strategic Initiatives to Extend Enterprise Job Scheduling Vision.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2003

Significant additions to enterprise job scheduling product line scheduled for last quarter 2003 and early 2004

Cybermation Inc., a leading developer of integrated job scheduling and software change management solutions, announces strategic additions to its comprehensive product line-up to enhance the industry's most complete enterprise job scheduling and automation solutions. These initiatives are the next step in the evolution of Cybermation's unique vision of a true enterprise-wide job scheduling solution that spans all operating platforms and provides users the power to manage and monitor workload from a single point of control. The completion of this vision will help IT operations to further align IT processes with the overall business goals of the enterprise.

The new products, scheduled for release during the last quarter of 2003 and early 2004, include:

-- ESP OneView(TM) - a single graphical display for users who are

scheduling jobs between ESP Workload Manager, Cybermation's

z/OS- based scheduler, and ESP Espresso, Cybermation's UNIX-

and Windows-based scheduler;

-- ESP System Agent(TM) for z/OS - allowing ESP Espresso users to

define, manage, and monitor workload for z/OS environments;

-- ESP Web Services Interface for ESP Workload Manager -

providing easy and seamless integration between Web-service

enabled applications; and finally,

-- ESP System Agent Release 6 - further extending the

capabilities of Cybermation job scheduling across UNIX and

Windows platforms.

"Enterprises are faced with the challenge of rapid change and hence need software that enables them to achieve agility without sacrificing stability. IT operations need to be able to deliver this agility in the job scheduling environment without sacrificing availability and reliability", stated Milind Govekar, VP and Research Director, Gartner. "IT Operations have to look at how to integrate new technologies such as web services and grid computing in their job scheduling environment without increasing complexity and lowering cost of operations. When choosing a job scheduling vendor, enterprises should look at vendors who can support this new technology, provide agility and stability to their operations environment."

ESP OneView is a graphical monitoring tool designed specifically for enterprises that are using Cybermation scheduling solutions, ESP Workload Manager and ESP Espresso simultaneously. Currently, Cybermation's job scheduling solutions provide organizations to with an enterprise view of configurations across mainframe-centric or distributed-centric platforms. With ESP OneView, users of both ESP Workload Manager and ESP Espresso can monitor their entire IT enterprise from a single point for unprecedented enterprise-wide scheduling. ESP OneView allows operators and other users to view the state and progress of IT processes across the enterprise when both Cybermation schedulers are being used simultaneously. Users can also perform real-time operations on jobs before they execute and can monitor multiple ESP Workload Manager or multiple ESP Espresso instances simultaneously from one console. ESP OneView automates processes and applications across hundreds or thousands of platforms and environments throughout the enterprise from a single point of control.

The ESP System Agent for z/OS enables ESP Espresso users to define, manage, control and monitor workload on the z/OS platform. Unlike other job scheduling solutions with mainframe connectivity, the ESP System Agent for z/OS operates without the need to install a separate z/OS scheduler, making it a very powerful addition to the ESP Espresso product family. This new agent allows organizations to run z/OS workload in concert with other distributed platforms across the enterprise through job dependencies, alerts, and email notifications. As with all ESP Agents, the ESP System Agent for z/OS operates concurrently with both ESP Workload Manager and ESP Espresso from a single agent instance.

Cybermation delivers additional integration between enterprise applications with its new ESP Web Services Interface, which allows Web service-enabled applications to execute and monitor IT processes throughout the automation environment using ESP Workload Manager. Organizations that subscribe to Web services standards can extend those applications to create bi-directional communication with enterprise job scheduling solutions. The Web Services Interface allows new Web services enabled applications to initiate processing on legacy systems, joining existing processes with new Web services enabled applications. Organizations that have a Web services interface can integrate ESP Workload Manager with third party applications faster and more easily through a Web service-based API.

ESP System Agent Release 6 extends the reach of Cybermation's job scheduling solution across UNIX and Windows platforms through added functionality. These new features increase the flexibility of both ESP Workload Manager and ESP Espresso by enabling users to reduce customization and scripting, and to extend the capabilities of their ESP job scheduling solutions. ESP System Agent Release 6 contains software that allows users to perform tasks such as file transfer, IP monitoring, and physical resource management through CPU, memory and disk monitoring on any platform in the enterprise. These physical resource management capabilities enable Cybermation's job scheduling technology to manage events and perform workload balancing based on real-world physical resources. This provides the benefit of gaining efficiency by running processes faster, reducing batch windows, and reducing errors. ESP System Agent Release 6 marks the initial stages of incorporating grid computing technologies into Cybermation's job scheduling solution.

"Cybermation has created the most comprehensive enterprise job scheduling solution ever," stated Ray Nissan, Cybermation CEO and chief technology architect. "As technology continues to change, we stay ahead of new business demands to ensure that our products meet the needs of our customers. No other company provides the completeness of vision that we now offer with our job scheduling solution. We are confident that these new products will enable our customers to improve their service levels, save costs, provide more business value and bring IT operations tightly in line with the overall business goals of the organization."

About Cybermation

Cybermation Inc. is recognized by its many Global 2000 customers as a leading developer of enterprise automation solutions for job scheduling and software change management for heterogeneous computing environments. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices throughout the United States and Europe. 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-Systems UK, Sony, VHV and Janssen Pharmaceutica in Europe.

Cybermation products include ESP Workload Manager(R) and ESP Espresso(TM), enterprise-wide job scheduling for z/OS(R), UNIX(R), and Windows(R) (R) operating systems and for SAP R/3(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; ESP Sysplex for cluster technology; and ESP Alchemist(TM), enterprise software change management for software development and data-center production environments.

Cybermation and ESP Workload Manager are registered trademarks of Cybermation Inc.

ESP Espresso is a trademark of Cybermation Inc.

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