Unison is Among First to Win a 1998 Crossroads A-List Award.

SANTA CLARA, Calif--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 1997--Unison Software (Nasdaq:UNSN) today announced that its flagship enterprise scheduling solution, Unison Maestro has won one of the coveted Crossroads '98 A-List Awards. Additionally, Maestro has achieved the Crossroads highest "AA" rating, signifying that the customers interviewed had fully deployed the product at an enterprise level.

The fifth annual Crossroads A-List Awards are the only industry awards based on interviews with customers who are actually deploying the products in mission-critical business situations. "No product testing lab or editorial review is as valuable to an IT executive considering a complex system as the real-world experience of his or her peers," explained Nina Lytton, President of Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA). "That's what the Crossroads A-List Awards do -- they identify products and services with proven track records."

"Products that win a Crossroads A-List Award are newly proven solutions that are ready for deployment during 1998," Lytton added. All products are measured against OSA's select criteria for enterprise-wide computing, including importance in achieving business results, increasing sales, improving customer service, shortening time to market, and interoperability in a multi-vendor environment consisting of PCs, UNIX and traditional systems.

"Unison is very pleased to accept the esteemed Crossroads A-List Award," commented Chuck Stern, vice president, marketing and corporate strategies at Unison. "This award validates Maestro's longstanding contribution to enterprise computing operations and its superiority in workload management. It is also gratifying to know that the criteria for choosing Maestro was was based on the real-world experience of some of the world's most distinguished companies."

Unison Maestro

Unison's award-winning product, Maestro coordinates and automates production scheduling of business applications running on Unix, MVS, MPE and now Windows NT, and ensures consistent operation of the processes that effect service delivery. Maestro has advanced integration with enterprise applications like SAP's R/3 and Oracle Applications, the leading frameworks like CA Unicenter, Tivoli TME 10 and HP OpenView IT/Operations and management applications like BMC PATROL and Candle Command Center.

Maestro 6.0 adds a mid-level management layer that allows administrators to centrally manage of one or more interconnected Maestro domains. The latest version also provides optional Pert and Gannt charts to visually map the flow of jobs based on scheduling dependencies. Administrators can analyze production schedules by displaying graphical comparisons and identify anomalies in the job flow. Maestro 6.0's advanced fault tolerance ensures application availability, enabling jobs to run regardless of network or system failures.

Unison Software

Unison Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: UNSN) is the leader in client/server production automation software. With its roots in client/server computing and expertise in building solutions that coordinate and expedite delivery of business information throughout the enterprise, Unison helps customers yield greater value from their most critical applications. The company's 5,000-plus worldwide customer base includes a roster of blue chip companies such as Ernst & Young LLP, General Electric Co., Hertz Corporation, Home Depot, Mobil Oil Corporation, Motorola, Nestle USA, Phillips Petroleum, Sony Music Entertainment and 3M Corporation.

Unison also maintains strategic partnerships with leading technology providers including BMC Software, Candle Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM/Tivoli, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Sequent. Unison's product line incorporates workload, storage, and output management. For more information, contact Unison Software at 5101 Patrick Henry Dr., Santa Clara, Calif. 95054. Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone], E-mail: [e-mail], World Wide Web: http://www.unison.com .

An awards ceremony will be held in conjunction with the fifth annual Crossroads 98 Conference (March 1-4, 1998), the only industry event exclusively for experienced, business-focused information technology executives who are responsible for getting business results with emerging technology.

A complete list of the Crossroads 98 A-List Award Winners and information on the methodology used to select award winners is available on the OSA web site: http://www.crossroads-osa.com .

Founded in 1989, OSA provides a real-world perspective on using new technology in business. Based on an ongoing, high-quality dialogue with hundreds of successful implementers of leading-edge technology in large and/or rapidly growing enterprises, OSA publishes the Crossroads Decisions report, selects winners of the Crossroads A-List awards, and produces the Crossroads Conference. For additional information, contact the company at: Open Systems Advisors, Inc., 268 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116, 617/859-0859; http://www.crossroads-osa.com . -0-

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