DYS Analytics Launches Email CONTROL! 4.0 for Microsoft Exchange Networks.

Business/Technology Editors

Microsoft MEC 2002 Conference

WELLESLEY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2002

Messaging Management Software Lowers Costs, Improves Service Levels

and Accelerates Completion of Major IT Projects

DYS Analytics, Inc., the leader in traffic management and optimization solutions, today launched Email CONTROL! for Microsoft Exchange. Debuting at this week's Microsoft MEC 2002 Conference in Anaheim, CA (Booth #239), Email CONTROL! enables IT managers to automate the measuring, analysis, trending and reporting of enterprise messaging traffic on their Exchange network. Email CONTROL! gives organizations the critical intelligence needed to reduce costs, improve service levels and ensure the success of strategic projects. The product is scheduled for release in 30 days.

The increasing complexity of enterprise networks and the exponential growth in volume and size of messages make it extremely difficult to proactively manage messaging traffic without sophisticated traffic management solutions. With the launch of Email CONTROL! 4.0 for Exchange, DYS Analytics brings its market leadership and expertise in managing some of world's largest Lotus Notes networks to the Exchange market.

IT managers use Email CONTROL! to gather ongoing metrics across their entire Exchange network - critical intelligence that allows them to:

1)       Reduce infrastructure and management costs through more
         efficient load balancing and capacity planning, faster
         troubleshooting, email usage policy creation and enforcement
         and cost allocation.

2)       Improve service level performance by defining goals and
         measuring compliance and identifying areas for improvement.

3)       Accelerate planning and successful execution of strategic
         network projects such as server consolidations, platform
         migrations, topology redesigns and network
         mergers/acquisitions.

"Messaging management solutions can play a vital role in optimizing and reducing the cost of Exchange networks," said Matt Cain, senior vice president, Web & collaboration strategies at META Group. "Scalable solutions that provide enterprise-wide analysis on messaging traffic will become must-haves as email volumes and server loads increase, and global network management becomes more complex."

Unique Offering for Exchange Environments

Email CONTROL! offers a competitively superior solution for complex Exchange environments by providing:

--Flexibility - ability to drill down and view metrics quickly and easily with over 100 standard reports and unlimited custom reports using Email CONTROL!'s intuitive report designer wizard. By automatically generating and posting reports to Web-based CONTROL! portals, Email CONTROL! provides the flexibility and customization required to deliver personalized and relevant information to key audiences - whether as an "at-a-glance" summary view for executive management, more detailed reports for enterprise-wide server operations, capacity planning, and load balancing, or user-specific information for audit and security purposes or user policy enforcement.

--Multi-platform support - Email CONTROL! is available for both Exchange and Notes/Domino platforms. It uniquely addresses those organizations who are maintaining a hybrid environment for messaging and collaborative applications or migrating from one messaging platform to another.

--Scalability - the largest organizations in the world are using Email CONTROL! to manage their enterprise-wide messaging systems. With a flexible data collection facility, combined with scheduled and automated collection and processing, DYS can address the needs of large companies without impacting staff or system resources.

"IT organizations always focus on ways to lower operational costs while improving service levels," said Chris Baker, lead product manager for Exchange at Microsoft Corp. "Email CONTROL! provides customers with a scalable, flexible solution to enable the migration, deployment and management of their Exchange environment."

"Our Email CONTROL! product provides ongoing analysis and monitoring information critical to the efficient operation of complex messaging networks," says Marco Farsheed, DYS Analytics CEO. "We are happy to extend its value to the Exchange 5.5 and 2000 platforms. Only DYS provides the scalable and flexible products and professional services that meet the needs of large enterprises looking to best manage their Exchange network."

Technical Highlights

--Exhaustive tracking, reporting and analysis of all messaging components and vital indicators such as server traffic, disk consumption, network bandwidth loads and user activity. Includes powerful new report types for aggregate reporting, multi-column comparisons and more.

--CONTROL! Portals - customized and dynamic Web-based views for "at-a-glance" access to traffic information across the organization.

--CONTROL! Task Manager - automatically runs and distributes reports by email or posts to CONTROL! Portals. Eliminates the need to manually generate recurring reports by setting up tasks to run on a predefined schedule.

--Interactive Report Designer - design custom reports or modify existing reports to quickly and easily address unique network reporting requirements.

--Report Assistant - a plain-language wizard that guides users to the right standard report or helps them build a new report based on predefined templates.

--Centralized or regionalized "one-point" data collection - no server agents to install, maintain or configure.

Pricing and Availability

Email CONTROL! for Exchange will be available in thirty days and is priced on a per seat basis. Email CONTROL! is sold directly by DYS Analytics and through select business partners.

About DYS Analytics

Founded in 1993, DYS Analytics provides traffic management and optimization solutions for messaging and collaboration networks such as Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange. DYS makes these networks more efficient and easier to manage, resulting in a substantial reduction in infrastructure and management costs and improved service levels. DYS also helps customers more effectively plan and execute strategic network projects. The DYS CONTROL! solutions include traffic analysis and optimization, infrastructure resource planning, service level management, application and usage management, audit and security, and traffic monitoring and alerting. DYS customers are major global organizations such as JPMorgan Chase, ABN AMRO, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Novartis, CSC, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and U.S. Navy. For more information, visit www.dysanalytics.com.

DYS Analytics, CONTROL! and the DYS logo are trademarks of DYS Analytics, Inc. Lotus and Lotus Notes are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation and/or IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. All other brand and product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.