Cybermation Provides Flexible ERP Scheduling With Agent for SAP/R3.

Business/Technology Editors

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2000

Cybermation Inc., the Canadian supplier of advanced scheduling and automation solutions announced at the Association for Computer Operations Management Conference today that it has started shipping the new ESP Agent for the SAP(R) R/3(R) enterprise resource planning solution. This agent, Version 2.0 - which is certified compliant by SAP -- enhances the R/3 application by offering increased flexibility in the scheduling and monitoring of batch workload run within R/3 systems.

Part of Cybermation's Enterprise Systems Platform (ESP) scheduling and workload management solution, this agent will work with R/3 systems running on AIX(R), HP-UX(R), Solaris(R) and Windows NT(R) operating system servers. Users will be able to monitor R/3 batch workload from the same workstations that they use for all applications.

"Cybermation's ability to manage workload seamlessly, in diverse platforms and across operating systems, is what makes ESP truly unique," explained Cybermation president, John Boyle. "Businesses rely on mission-critical applications like SAP R/3. As an enterprise workload management system, ESP now adds remarkable value to this world- class ERP solution through advanced scheduling functionality."

Cybermation has started shipping this new release which provides SAP users with new advantages in monitoring, security, and in triggering workload based on file activity.

With this ESP Agent, users will be able to monitor R/3 workload, log files and job states from a single point and make changes to scheduled workload within the R/3 system any time up until execution. There is increased system security through the addition of a localized security file on the R/3 system application server and DES encryption of messages. Open systems administrators will be able to apply their security protocols to the execution of workload both within the R/3 environment and outside it. Greater scheduling flexibility is provided by additional file triggering options. Scheduled application execution can now be triggered by changes in file size, file ownership attributes and time since last file modification in addition to the existing presence, creation or deletion of files.

Cybermation anticipates that this ESP Agent release will provide productivity improvements for its customers by facilitating and simplifying scheduling in the SAP R/3 environment.

About Cybermation

Cybermation Inc. is recognised by its many Fortune 500 customers both as the provider of best-of-breed scheduling and workload management software for distributed computing environments, and for its systems management expertise. Cybermation provides integrated business automation solutions for heterogeneous computing environments, including ESP Workload Manager(R) for enterprise-wide job scheduling and workload management (OS/390(R), UNIX(R), Windows NT(R) and OS/400(R) operating systems as well as for SAP R/3, Oracle and PeopleSoft ERP environments), ESP Workstation for enterprise scheduling from a single point of control, ESP Encore(R) for rerun and restart control, ESP Console Manager(R) for console automation, ESP Communication Server(R) for local to remote ESP communications, and DJC(R) for real-time resource control. Cybermation's customers include Hudson's Bay Company, Statistics Canada, McKenaie Financial and CN Rail in Canada, and Allstate Insurance, Nike, 9999Deere & Co. and GTE Data Services.