CA Awarded Patent for Neugents Technology

Computer Associates International Inc (CA), one of the world's leading eBusiness solutions providers, announced it has received a new patent for its advanced, intelligence-based Neugents technology.

The Neugents technology incorporates a number of patented inventions. This new patent recognizes CA's unique and highly sophisticated technique for mapping patterns across large volumes of complex data. The Neugents technology enables the development of intelligent applications that can effectively learn behaviors without explicit knowledge of underlying causes and effects, and extrapolate predictions from those behaviors with heightened accuracy.

The patented Neugents technology is incorporated in CA's diverse eBusiness software portfolio, including the Unicenter TNG eBusiness management solution and the Jasmineii eBusiness platform. The Neugents technology is also in Neugentsii, CA's intelligent eBusiness solution that enables developers to easily build and deploy "self-learning" applications that can dynamically adjust, predict, and respond to changing business needs.

Such predictive capabilities are becoming increasingly important to Internet Age businesses that must respond with ever-greater immediacy to rapidly changing conditions. With the help of the Neugents technology, intelligent applications can quickly detect anomalies and predict potential problems and opportunities in virtually any business process, regardless of subtlety or scale. This enables eBusinesses to rapidly respond and capitalize on changes in customer behaviors, financial markets, manufacturing processes, and other critical phenomena.

"As business becomes more automated, digital managers can become inundated with information and can easily lose touch with what's going on with their business at any given moment," said Carl Hartman, vice president of eBusiness marketing. "CA's eBusiness solutions powered by the Neugents technology overcome this potential problem by intelligently discerning patterns in complex data, and bringing them to the attention of the right decision-makers in real time."

The Neugents technology also enables more effective visualization of such data, further assisting in fast and accurate assessments of complex data. "By enriching our clients' data visualization tools, we're allowing them to more effectively communicate and act on the huge volumes of information now being generated by their eBusiness interactions," said Hartman.

Computer Associates International Inc, one of the world's leading business software companies, delivers the end-to-end infrastructure to enable eBusiness through innovative technology, services and education. CA has 20,000 employees worldwide and had revenue in excess of $6 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. For more information, visit www.ca.com. Computer Associates International Inc, One Computer Associates Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749.

Contact Ilona Mohacsi of Computer Associates International Inc, 631-342-2542 or Ilona.Mohacsi@ca.com.