DYS Analytics Launches Email CONTROL! Desktop Edition, Embraces New IBM Lotus Platforms.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Lotusphere 2004

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004

Brings Real-Time and Historical Application Performance Management

to Mid-Sized Networks; "Efficiencize" IBM Lotus Workplace and Team

Workplace Platforms

At Lotusphere 2004 today, DYS Analytics, Inc., a leader in application performance management for messaging and collaboration applications, announced Email CONTROL! Desktop Edition, a targeted version of the company's flagship CONTROL! solution for email management for mid-tier organizations. Email CONTROL! Desktop Edition allows organizations with up to 5000 seats achieve greater email operational efficiency resulting in lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and higher quality of service (QoS). This new offering provides underserved email-based communities with both real-time and historical analysis of their collaboration infrastructure for fast problem resolution, improved QoS and deeper insight into their collaboration infrastructure. The new Email CONTROL! Desktop Edition is separately licensed and sold, and will initially be available for the IBM Lotus Domino messaging platform.

DYS also announced CONTROL! solutions for the IBM Lotus Workplace and IBM Team Workplace platforms. By providing critical application management capabilities for these newer IBM applications, DYS provides IT staffs the same TCO-lowering, QoS-increasing and SLA compliance benefits as they have achieved when using DYS CONTROL! with their existing Domino, Exchange and Sametime platforms. CONTROL! for IBM Lotus Workplace and IBM Lotus Team Workplace are separately licensed and sold.

All three new products are built on the new CONTROL! 4.2 Platform, also announced today, and will be available starting in April 2004.

"Efficiencize(TM)" Mid-Tier Email Collaboration

IT operation staffs at mid-tier organizations typically handle help-desk functions. Email CONTROL! Desktop Edition includes added features to better assist this staff in quickly resolving the continual flow of email performance Help Desk calls. By scoping Desktop Edition to mid-sized environments, the product has modest hardware and software requirements that support easy installation on typical desktop-class PCs. The new TrackNOW! feature helps IT immediately diagnose their messaging environment so immediate fixes can be applied. Desktop Edition also provides the same rich diagnostic capabilities as the enterprise edition of the product, with the same set of over 200 standard reports and custom reporting facilities through a drag and drop interface.

With Desktop Edition, IT staffs:

-- Troubleshoot Faster - IT staff can swiftly report, analyze and

take immediate action on email related help-desk calls - for

example, determining if the message is stuck within the

network, the sender never actually sent the message or if the

recipient never actually received it. They can better monitor

user satisfaction and proactively adjust server, bandwidth and

storage resources accordingly.

-- Enhance Security - with facilities to examine suspect usage

patterns, unusually high traffic volumes and message traffic

to/from competitors or suspect domains.

-- Meet Management Demands - to control costs, reduce liability,

and budget / plan accurately for capacity. CONTROL! portals

provide both summary and detailed analysis reports so

management can easily view and understand operational use and

health of their collaboration infrastructure.

-- Improve Performance of Mission-Critical Collaboration Services

- with daily monitoring and reporting on critical information

about mail volumes, senders, and recipients - and

identification of organization-wide usage trends for capacity

planning. With CONTROL, staffs can better assure SLA

compliance, speed application rollouts, and spend more time

planning as they are spending less time reacting to problems.

"IT staffs in mid-tier organizations may operate differently than in large organizations, but they need the same powerful options for maintaining production-grade collaboration," said Stefan Mehlhorn, CEO of DYS Analytics. "With Email CONTROL!, Desktop Edition, TrackNOW! and our expanded range of supported IBM Lotus collaboration solutions, any size of organization now can leverage DYS' decade-long expertise in application performance management to improve the health, performance and cost-efficiency of their IBM Lotus messaging and collaboration applications."

"Efficiencize" Additional IBM Platforms

New CONTROL! solutions for IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging and Team Workplace provide IT staffs with the same powerful management capabilities for their browser-based IBM Lotus applications as they have with their Notes/Domino networks.

-- Email CONTROL! for IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging - provides

enterprise-wide reporting and analysis of IBM Lotus Workplace

Message usage and server utilization. This information helps

IT staff reduce infrastructure and management costs, speed

troubleshooting, perform more accurate load balancing and

capacity planning, and create and enforce email policies. As

adoption of Workplace accelerates, CONTROL! helps IT staffs

assure the production-grade infrastructure their users have

come to expect.

-- Collaboration CONTROL! for IBM Lotus Team Workplace - provides

a streamlined, enterprise-wide view of Team Workplace disk,

storage and network consumption. As Team Workplace is

fundamentally an ad-hoc, self-service product, IT needs

capabilities to centrally manage these distributed Places.

Familiar CONTROL! features help IT identify active versus

inactive Team Workplaces for backup and deletion, balance

loads and optimize Team Workplace disk, network and server

utilization.

With CONTROL!, organizations gain a broad spectrum of application performance management capabilities to dramatically lower application TCO while simultaneously increasing their quality of service (QoS).

About DYS Analytics

Founded in 1993, DYS Analytics is the leading provider of application performance management solutions for messaging and collaboration applications such as IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Lotus Workplace, IBM Lotus Team Workplace, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing, and Microsoft Exchange. The DYS CONTROL! solutions monitor and analyze application usage, traffic and performance across the entire enterprise and help organizations align the application and its supporting infrastructure with the business usage. This results in a substantial reduction in infrastructure and administration costs and improved quality of service. DYS customers are major global organizations such as JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Bank One, ABN AMRO Bank, Zurich Financial Services, IBM, CSC, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Henkel, Bayer, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline. For more information, visit www.dysanalytics.com.

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