Gensym's Integrity Platform is Chosen by CSC

Gensym Corporation, a leader in adaptive software products for modeling, simulating and monitoring e-business infrastructure, announced that Computer Sciences Corporation has selected Gensym's Integrity software platform for its global integrated enterprise initiative. CSC's Global Infrastructure Services Group (GIS) purchased Integrity, Gensym's platform for continuous service availability, and G2 Classic, the award-winning platform for monitoring, control and optimization of complex business processes, for deployment in its network-management services program.

CSC provides a full spectrum of outsourcing services, spanning systems integration, network operations, data center services/operations and desktop management. The integrated enterprise initiative will streamline CSC's infrastructure service offerings by deploying common policies for the operation of data centers.

CSC chose Integrity for its industrial-strength performance and ability to integrate tool sets, which will enable CSC to better manage operations and solve problems faster. CSC is deploying Gensym software in its data centers worldwide.

Integrity acts as the inferencing component of CSC's new Integrated Enterprise Management Center (IEMC). Gensym's technology acts as the "manager of managers" and enables more efficient operations, quicker problem resolution and increased automation of procedures. CSC provides day-to-day operations for computer and network platforms, among other services, and with Integrity can minimize the frequency and duration of outages. When outages do occur, CSC can be more proactive in informing customers of outages and their effects on service.

"The flexibility, extensibility and forward-looking component architecture of the Integrity product family made Gensym a clear choice from among the many inferencing product companies in the marketplace," said Jeff Andrew, vice president, CSC GIS Global Production Operations. "With its root-cause analysis and automation capabilities, Integrity will improve the productivity and response of CSC Global Production Operations staff in servicing CSC clients. It alleviates the routine, but necessary, tasks associated with an outage, so that we can focus on fixing the problem."

Integrity helps operate and maintain infrastructure by intelligently managing faults and service levels. Integrity maintains the continuous availability of client business applications by quickly detecting, diagnosing and correcting problems on computers, software applications and communications networks. With Integrity, CSC will lower operating costs, improve service availability, increase system availability and reduce the cost and technical risk associated with accelerated implementation of systems for managing service levels.

About CSC

Computer Sciences Corporation, one of the world's leading consulting and information technology services firms, helps clients in industry and government achieve strategic and operational objectives through the use of technology. Having guided clients through major waves of change in IT for more than 40 years, CSC today is well positioned to develop and apply IT strategies and technologies, particularly in the e-business area, based on its full range of capabilities in management and IT consulting; systems design and integration; applications software; Web and application hosting; and IT and business process outsourcing.

Since its formation in 1959, CSC has been known for its flexibility and customer centric culture. Through numerous agreements with hardware and software firms, the company develops and manages solutions specifically tailored to each client's needs. With more than 60,000 employees in locations worldwide, CSC had revenues of $9.6 billion for the twelve months ended June 30, 2000. It is headquartered in El Segundo, California. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.

About Gensym

Gensym Corporation www.gensym.com is a leading provider of adaptive software products that model, simulate and monitor e-business infrastructure. Since 1986, Gensym has sold more than 13,000 product licenses to organizations in communications, manufacturing, aerospace, transportation, government and other industries. Gensym is making e-business infrastructure work.

Contact Gensym Corporation, Kevin Flanagan, 617-588-3319, kflanagan@gensym.com or Sterling Hager Inc, Debby Oldham, 617-926-6665, doldham@sterlinghager.com.