Woolworths Selects TME 10 To Provide Focal Point For Enterprise Management.

SLOUGH U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1997--Tivoli Systems announced today that Woolworths plc, the UK's best known family retailer, has chosen TME 10(tm) (Tivoli Management Environment(tm)) software, the world's leading enterprise systems management solution, to manage the distributed systems environment at its London head office and its distribution centers in Castleton and Swindon. The TME 10 Framework contract includes Distributed Monitoring, Software Distribution, Enterprise Console, Remote Control and Inventory.

Trevor Browning, computer services manager, Woolworths comments: "Our primary need was to centralize control of our production services so we needed a solution that would enable us centrally to manage resources in our distributed environment as well as central services within the datacenter at Castleton. With over 1,200 users, seven AS/400s, a Tandem data warehouse and 12 NT servers - growing as we migrate from Warp server - we also required a solution that could grow with our business and a vendor that shared our vision."

"We have an aggressive schedule to implement Client/Server applications based on an NT infrastructure. To enable us to manage these platforms and deliver to the required service levels, it was recognized that systems management was a vitally important part of the infrastructure," says Browning.

In selecting TME 10, Woolworths carried out an extensive evaluation process. "Six working parties were established, reporting to a central steering committee, to look at specific aspects of enterprise systems management," says Browning. "It was vitally important that we could actually see and experience the solution in operation."

"Tivoli TME 10 was selected because it met our key requirements for the management of the distributed environment as well as the core operational computing systems," says Browning. "Tivoli provided the complete framework and functionality for the first phase of our deployment - software distribution and central event monitoring - and demonstrated the ability to cater for our future systems management needs."

Tivoli is committed to delivering real customer benefits and rapid return on investment. Browning has forecast a payback on the first phase of deployment within 18 months, primarily from software distribution. "However, not all benefits are monetarily quantifiable. We are confident that the benefits that we shall gain from implementing TME 10 will exceed our 18 month forecast," concludes Browning.

Woolworths also considered a point solution but calculated that over a two to three year time scale it would not provide the returns that would be achieved with a framework solution.

Tim Crossley, UK sales director, Tivoli Systems comments, "We are delighted that TME 10 is now an important part of Woolworths' IT strategy. Their detailed evaluation process clearly brought to light the benefits that Tivoli's framework approach can bring to their organization both today and in the future. We are looking forward to working closely with Woolworths in developing further their enterprise management system. Woolworths' decision demonstrates that Tivoli TME 10 is the preferred choice for large-scale management problems."

About TME 10

TME 10, together with TME 10-compatible third party applications, spans the four network computing management disciplines: deployment, availability, security, and operations and administration. Tivoli's object-oriented TME 10 Framework provides a foundation for integrating these disciplines into an overall network computing solution and integrating Tivoli applications with third party solutions. The Framework's applications programming interfaces are openly published, enabling users and vendors to 'snap in' any API-compliant management solution.

TME-10 supports 29 platforms, including OS/390, OS/400, 14 versions of UNIX, Microsoft Windows 3.0, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, NetWare and eight other platforms, as well as the Internet and intranets.

About Tivoli

Tivoli Systems Inc. provides TME10, the industry's leading solution for end-to-end management of distributed computing environments, from mobile computers to mainframes. Thousands of companies throughout the globe use TME10 and compatible third party products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing their networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM Company. Products are distributed worldwide, through a network of domestic and international sales offices, systems, integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit Tivoli's World Wide Web site at http://www.tivoli.com .

Tivoli Management Environment and TME 10 are trademarks of Tivoli Systems Inc., an IBM company. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

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