DYS Analytics Scores Major Wins in Management Consulting Sector.

WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Helps Five of the Top 10 Benefits Consulting Firms Improve Global IBM Lotus Domino Operations; Maximize Performance While Lowering TCO 

DYS Analytics, Inc., a privately held leader in application performance management solutions for messaging and collaboration applications, announced two major sales in late 2004 to leaders in the management and human capital consulting sector. These organizations deployed DYS CONTROL! to "Efficiencize" their IT networks, so their networks can better cope with the masses of unstructured data that comprise some 80 percent of organizations' online knowledge assets(1).

With these sales, DYS Analytics now assists five of the top 10 US benefit consulting companies(2) "Efficiencize" their global collaboration networks for optimal email, collaborative database, Instant Messaging, and e-Meetings application performance. By using DYS' CONTROL! solutions, consulting firms assure their staff have immediate access to critical knowledge and thereby gain competitive advantage in today's times of quickly changing regulations. Their IT staff can better assure systems operate at peak service levels with lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) - savings that companies can better allocate toward growing the business. DYS is showcasing its latest CONTROL! solutions today at the Lotusphere show in Orlando in its booths #417a/417b.

Management consulting organizations are dependant on unstructured information access and sharing platforms such as email, IM, eMeetings, and collaboration databases. These collaborative tools unite far-flung project team members with their clients and assure in-house experts can be immediately tapped for assistance. Yet firms' networks have typically become so complex and bloated that they no longer deliver the responsiveness they were originally built to provide. IT typically ignores the performance problem or simply throws more software, hardware and bandwidth at it, failing to address the root cause of what is frequently a set of complex, inter-related issues.

Leading management consulting firms who have purchased DYS' CONTROL! have found their IT staff now can:

--Maximize Corporate Asset Use through server consolidations, stale database cleanups, faster and reliable platform upgrades, topology redesigns and streamlined application rollouts. These efforts lower organizational costs, and when done with DYS CONTROL!, minimize or eliminate project risks and organizational impacts.

--Improve Operational Effectiveness - CONTROL! gives IT an enterprise-wide view of their applications while supporting detailed analysis for fast troubleshooting and optimization. IT can uncover previously hidden sources of cost- and time-saving activities.

--Monitor SLA Compliance by providing objective reports to the business units showing end-to-end delivery times, compliancy as well as getting detailed reports to address SLA issues before they impact the contracted terms.

--Budget Accurately by more accurately planning future capacity needs and budgets. IT no longer has to guess or use outdated assumptions as CONTROL! provides accurate and detailed enterprise-wide reports, trends and analysis.

Saved Terabytes In First Months; Implemented Policies When Needed

"Using DYS CONTROL! database usage analytics, we have been able to implement a process where database owners and admins are automatically notified when a database hasn't been used in six weeks," said a manager at one major outsourcing and consulting firm. "In the first couple of months, this effort identified multiple terabytes of space on our servers that we could immediately recover - saving us significantly on the cost of additional server disks and reduced WAN traffic. We rely on CONTROL! reporting and analysis to cleanup our network which, in turn, greatly reduces backup and restore costs and improved overall replication performance."

"Senior management knew we sent a lot of email, but they didn't expect the tally to hit 70 million emails annually," said a manager of collaboration and knowledge management infrastructure at another major global professional services firm. "With DYS CONTROL!, management is now sensitized to our use of email and the load it's putting on our network. They are better informed when it's time to set usage policies to help rein in the growth of email or make infrastructure expenditures to optimize email traffic on our network."

"Management consulting firms are such heavy users of email, IM, eMeetings and databases that it's easy for their networks to become overrun with traffic that exceeds available CPU, storage and bandwidth capacity," said Stefan Mehlhorn, CEO of DYS Analytics. "DYS Analytics helps these firms contain costs, improve performance and better manage their collaboration resources -- just as they help their clients do with human resources."

DYS CONTROL! application performance management solutions let IT managers "Efficiencize" the use of email, instant messaging, e-Meeting and application databases for improved operational efficiencies, higher service levels and reduced TCO. Using CONTROL!, IT analyze, gain health/availability metrics and report on enterprise-wide usage of collaborative applications such as IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing and IBM Team Workplace (formerly QuickPlace). Armed with these metrics, IT professionals accelerate strategic projects like platform upgrades, server consolidations, topology redesigns and merger/acquisition-related network changes. By having a complete picture of their traffic, usage and performance, IT staff can proactively manage their network, dramatically reduce operational costs and improve messaging performance levels.

About DYS Analytics

Founded in 1993, DYS Analytics is a leading provider of application performance management solutions for messaging and collaboration applications such as IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Workplace, IBM 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 large and small, global and local, including such firms as JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Bank One, ABN AMRO Bank, Zurich Financial Services, IBM, CSC, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Henkel, Novartis, Schering, Linde Gas and GlaxoSmithKline. For more information, visit www.dysanalytics.com.

*DYS Analytics, CONTROL!, Efficiencize and the DYS logo are trademarks of DYS Analytics, Inc. IBM, Lotus, and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks. Notes and Domino are trademarks of IBM. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

(1)DMReview Magazine, October 12, 2004.

(2)Business Insurance Magazine, May 31, 2004, as ranked by employee benefit consulting revenues.