Subsidiary of Coopers & Lybrand Canada to resell CA's Enterprise Management and Relational Database Products.

ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 28, 1996--

Sages Systems International To Provide Clients With CA-Unicenter and CA-OpenIngres Solutions

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced that Sages Systems International Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coopers & Lybrand Canada, has been named a reseller for CA-Unicenter and CA-OpenIngres.

The selling arm of Big Six accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand, Sages Systems International is also a leading integrator of open systems solutions for customers throughout Canada and the U.S. Among its most notable clients are Hughes Elcan, Berg Electronics, Delphax, and DCI Marketing.

"Our business is to help companies implement enterprise-wide business solutions using the most advanced client/server computing technologies," said Pierre Paquet, president of Sages Systems International. "CA-Unicenter offers superior end-to-end management of heterogeneous enterprises, and CA-OpenIngres is the industry's most advanced technology for mission-critical database management. It's easy to understand why we're aggressively expanding our partnership with CA, and why we are so enthused about this expanded alliance."

In addition to marketing and supporting CA-Unicenter, Sages will continue to develop solutions based on CA's MK (Manufacturing Knowledge) technology, formerly known as CA-Manman/X. CA's comprehensive manufacturing management solution has been used extensively by Sages to provide clients with comprehensive business administration capabilities in planning, forecasting, costing, engineering, project management, inventory management, production, sales, purchasing, service and maintenance.

"As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coopers & Lybrand Canada, Sages has the depth of financial resources, experience and technical expertise that will allow it to become a top provider of CA's enterprise management and RDBMS technologies," said Mark Marron, CA senior vice president of business partner programs. "Sages has proven to be an outstanding CA business partner, and through our expanded relationship, they will now be able to extend an even greater range of essential products, services and support to our mutual clients."

According to Paquet, Sages has already increased its sales, consulting and technical staff to support new CA-Unicenter and CA-OpenIngres clients. The commitment of additional resources significantly increases the company's overall multi-platform systems integration expertise.

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 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.

CA-OpenIngres is the multi-platform relational DBMS designed for mission-critical business processing. Offering the leading capabilities of distributed database technologies, including replication, query optimization and active data management, CA-OpenIngres is ideally suited for advanced data warehousing and mobile computing applications.

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 [phone].

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 9,000 people in 130 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of more than $3.5 billion in fiscal year 1996. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing [e-mail] or calling 1-516-342-5224.

Sages Systems International Inc. specializes in the implementation and support of world class, fully-integrated manufacturing and distribution software solutions. Sages' headquarters are in Boucherville, Quebec, with a branch office in Toronto, Ontario. Sages professionals provide all the services related to the sale, installation, implementation, education and on-going support for both packaged and custom solutions. Founded in 1982, Sages is, since 1995, a division of Coopers & Lybrand Canada. -0-

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Sages Systems International

Richard Paquet, 514/655-6563