ICI Joins the Ranks of CA'S Elite Unicenter TNG Premier Business Partners.

ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1997--

Longtime VAR Foresees Virtually Unlimited Business Opportunities

With CA's End-To-End Enterprise Management Solution

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) announced today that Integrated Concepts, Inc. (ICI), a computer and software integrator specializing in business strategy and design, enterprise management, and Internet/Intranet technologies, has become a Unicenter TNG (The Next Generation) Premier Business Partner.

"As a longtime CA partner, we have been able to provide our customers with a very broad range of industry-leading solutions, from CA-Unicenter, to OpenIngres, to ACCPAC financial applications," said Chris Russell, president of ICI. "With Unicenter TNG, we'll be able to offer the world's most advanced end-to-end IT management solution. We look forward to gaining a great deal of new business from existing clients, as well as new customers looking to gain control of their IT resources."

According to Russell, ICI's clients are rapidly moving to distributed systems, but they are often unprepared to manage the myriad complications that often arise when new systems and mission-critical applications are deployed. Since Unicenter TNG offers an end-to-end solution for managing, monitoring and controlling corporate IT resources across all IT environments, ICI will be able to capitalize on virtually unlimited new business opportunities.

"By offering superior technical support, in-depth training, and end-to-end integration services, ICI has truly earned its reputation as a superior business consulting firm," said Mark Marron, CA senior vice president of business partner programs. "With Unicenter TNG, clients will be able to realize even greater benefits from Integrated Concept's unique approach to business and technology solutions."

ICI develops, markets, and supports systems management, application development and business applications software for a broad range of mainframe, midrange and desktop systems. The company, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, specializes in providing technology-based business consulting services, including needs analysis, system design and implementation, to companies of all sizes. In addition to being a CA business partner, ICI is an Authorized Novell NetWare Reseller, a Microsoft Partner, and a Candle software VAR.

ICI has also agreed to resell CA's Jasmine - the first object-oriented multimedia database software featuring an Internet/Intranet-enabled application development system. Jasmine's object-oriented database engine provides a robust foundation to store, manage, and maintain multimedia and business objects. Jasmine provides a means for businesses to meet all their multimedia, Internet, and distributed systems challenges, and empowers them to enter new markets, increase productivity, lower costs, and boost their bottom line.

"We're looking forward to broadening our already strong relationship with CA, and we plan to take full advantage of all the program benefits made available to us as a Premier Business Partner," said Russell.

As a Unicenter TNG premier business partner, ICI is automatically enrolled in the CA VARsity Club -- a program designed to increase profit margins for VARs specializing in selling and supporting CA software. ICI will also receive additional product discounts, marketing development funds, product rebates and free product training.

Additional program benefits now available to ICI include marketing assistance, development of direct mail, literature, advertising and seminars, and access to a full video production studio for creating and duplicating sales demos and marketing materials. CA Premier Partners are also provided with free access to select database mailing lists from CA.

General information on CA's Business Partner Programs is available by calling 800 Team-VAR (1-800-832-6827) in the U.S. and Canada, or by accessing CA's home page at http://www.cai.com/bpp/varsity.htm. Resellers, consultants and independent software vendors interested in becoming authorized VARsity Club members may also call 800 832-6827.

CA-Unicenter provides comprehensive end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP, SNA and DECnet networks, and UNIX, Windows NT, AS/400, NetWare and mainframe platforms. Using a scalable manager/agent technology, CA-Unicenter allows organizations to manage production environments through its integrated policy-based management infrastructure, common management applications and consistent graphical user interface. CA-Unicenter is the only fully integrated management solution covering network discovery, topology, performance, events and status, security, software distribution, storage, workload, help desk, and change management for traditional distributed computing environments, as well as the Internet and Intranets.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 9,000 people in 130 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of $3.9 billion in calendar year 1996. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing [e-mail] or calling 516/342-5224.

Specializing in business strategy and design, Integrated Concepts, Inc. is a full-service computer and software integrator, as well as a leading supplier of technology based solutions for the medical industry. ICI develops, markets, and supports systems management, application development and business applications for heterogeneous mainframe, midrange and desktop environments. Since its establishment in 1987, ICI has provided advanced LAN/WAN solutions for companies of all sizes. ICI, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, also provides local, national and global communications solutions through Internet access, and offers on-site/dial-in support services through ISDN technology. ICI can be reached at 214/696-9000. -0-

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CONTACT: Integrated Concepts, Inc.

Chris Russell, 214/696-9000

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Computer Associates International, Inc.

Herman Chin, 516/342-2364

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