Cybermation Enhances Enterprise-Wide Job Scheduling With ESP Espresso R3; Release 3 Accelerates Efficiency in Distributed Environments from a Single Point of Control.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2002

Cybermation Inc., a leading developer of integrated enterprise systems management software, announced the availability of ESP Espresso Release 3, its enterprise job scheduling solution for distributed environments. Featuring a next-generation XML and JAVA(R) architecture, it functions across a wide variety of server and ERP platforms, including UNIX(R), Windows NT/2000, IBM OS/400, Open VMS, Tandem NSK, and SAP R/3.

ESP Espresso is an event-driven, object-oriented, platform-independent job scheduler. It allows users to automate and integrate batch processes across multiple systems through one point of control for notable system-wide improvements in operational and management efficiency. With the release of ESP Espresso R3, Cybermation introduces new high-powered fail-over and calendaring features, logical resource allocation and enhanced reporting capabilities.

"We integrated ESP Espresso in our AIX environment to keep our costs low, improve and further automate our batch processes and provide added value to our end-users," stated Fahrlehrerversicherung Verein auf Gegenseitigkeit, a German-based insurance provider currently using ESP Espresso in their environment.

Cybermation's job scheduling solutions are built on an object-oriented architecture, which allows users to create a job definition only once, and to use it many times over, thus eliminating redundancy. Scheduling definitions can be built to handle all situations including time-based or, file event scenarios. The architecture also eliminates the need for multiple calendars by scheduling all jobs on one calendar, making it unnecessary to group jobs by multiple schedule definitions. The result is extremely efficient job scheduling, running a simplified automated IT environment with minimal resources needed to maintain it.

Milind Govekar, Director of Gartner Research, commented "Most organizations will find that enterprise automation has to keep up with the rapid rate of change of technology in their computing environment. Thus, they will need to consider solutions from vendors who have the ability and track record to deliver additional functionality very rapidly for their dynamic and growing computing environment."

Key Features and Benefits:

-- Multiple systems, one point of control - ESP Espresso can be used in a single application environment to define, monitor and control the total workload across all leading enterprise operating systems and ERP platforms: Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows NT/2000, IBM AIX, HP HP-UX, SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, Oracle Applications, and many others. ESP agent technology provides the ability to integrate new systems and platforms without rewriting scheduling tasks.

-- SNMP Enablement - ESP Espresso sends SNMP traps automatically when a server or an ESP Espresso Agent starts or shuts down. In addition, Alerts can be used to send SNMP traps when a job reaches a specific monitor state.

-- Intuitive interface - With ESP Espresso's graphical user interface, users can drag and drop scheduling objects and simply draw relationships between them to build workflow definitions. Advanced "plain English" terminology makes events, applications and jobs easy to recognize and manage.

-- High performance fail-over - ESP Espresso's resilient automatic fail-over feature is put into action when the primary server fails and a recovery site is needed to pick up where the primary server left off. This feature does not compromise the performance of the primary server, nor does it need the identical hardware, operating system or database of the primary server.

-- Historical reporting - ESP Espresso provides the ability to extract useful processing information from the server, which enables users to build and customize their own statistical reports. These reports allow users to track past workload history and plan their scheduling in a more effective manner

-- Logical resource allocation - ESP Espresso gives users the ability to define jobs that occupy abstract units of work on a system. If a system fails to have a specific amount of resource units available as defined by the user, the system will wait until the logical resource units are available on the system before submitting the job.

"With its new usability features, Espresso Release 3 remains one of the most advanced event-driven job scheduling solutions for distributed environments in the market today," stated Ray Nissan, Cybermation CEO and chief technology architect. "Cybermation continues its 20-year track record of providing unique business advantages to its customers through advanced technology solutions."

ESP Espresso R3 is currently being offered on a Limited Availability basis to selected customers. For more information, contact Cybermation at [phone] or visit our website at http://www.cybermation.com.

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, and VHV 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 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.

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