CONTEXTUAL VISUALIZATION SPEEDS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

interBiz, the eBusiness applications division of Computer Associates International Inc, announced that Advanced Visual Systems (AVS), an international leader in data visualization software has provided highly interactive data visualization techniques for BizWorks interBiz's leading eBusiness Process Management suite. BizWorks is an eBusiness information infrastructure helping "brick and mortar" companies accelerate their integration with the Web.

BizWorks provides an infrastructure for integrating and leveraging a company's information assets from a broad variety of sources including: application programs, devices, collaborating businesses and information from the Web. BizWorks uses a non-invasive wrapping technique to bring information into a common object structure that provides a single global view for command and control across the extended enterprise. Advanced graphics and data presentation capabilities of BizWorks are enabled by the OpenViz development platform from AVS. Examples of OpenViz visualization techniques can be found at www.openviz.com.

AVS' feature-rich OpenViz development platform is designed to bring highly interactive data visualization capabilities to products such as BizWorks by permitting many different types of data to be integrated into 2D and 3D charts and graphs that facilitate rapid understanding of large quantities of complex business information. BizWorks leverages CA's leading technologies including Jasmine, Unicenter and Neugents to help customers consolidate information from all segments of their businesses, collaborate with partners and suppliers and leverage web-based information resources to create a global view of all of the factors affecting the success of the business.

BizWorks Business Intelligent Agents introduce a Web mining technique that allows users to actively monitor and distill the world's greatest information resource -- the World Wide Web -- for competitive information from public or subscription web sites. Once imported into BizWorks, data can be used to create knowledge portals of topically related and contextually visualized information. This Web-sourced information is fully managed by the exception, analysis and visualization policies that each user defines. OpenViz enables the organization and dynamic visualization of mined data and facilitates the use of sophisticated interBiz software agents to set up and monitor thresholds on important devices, databases or processes.

OpenViz visualization capabilities are invoked from BizWorks on-screen "dashboards" that address the specific interests of different levels of an enterprise, as well as compare real-time operational statistics against key performance indicators drawn from enterprise resources, market data and competitive research. These real-time visualizations of a customers' global operation, the operations of partners and suppliers, and external or environmental factors that might strategically impact business success, filter out the "noise" and drive effective decisions.

According to Steve Sukman, CEO of AVS, "interBiz has clearly established a new standard in fully-integrated eBusiness Process Management solutions with BizWorks, and we are extremely honored that OpenViz was called upon to provide many of the advanced graphics and interactive capabilities of the product."

Sukman added, "Like interBiz, we share the belief that business decisions made from a vast collection of real-time data sources, expressed in a highly visual format, accelerate the knowledge and action process. As more and more types of business information are made available to all levels of an enterprise, technologies such as BizWorks and OpenViz will serve to help workers overcome information overload and obtain greater value from data that they have traditionally been unable to access or clearly comprehend."

"As business accelerates to Internet speed, the need to build an adaptive eBusiness that leverages existing physical and intellectual assets is overwhelming many companies," said Mike Connolly, senior vice president and general manager of interBiz. "BizWorks provides an integrated answer to advancing the eBusiness initiatives of our clients, while leveraging their existing information assets and investments in technology. Since OpenViz techniques have been integrated into BizWorks, interBiz customers are able to experience new dimensions of interaction and visual understanding, strengthening the interBiz mission of intelligently analyzing and contextually visualizing the extended enterprise in real time."

About interBiz

interBiz, the eBusiness applications division of Computer Associates International Inc, helps enhance profit from new opportunities in the eBusiness world. interBiz integrates the industry's leading eBusiness process management solution, BizWorks, with core competencies in: Banking, Supply Chain Management, Financial Management, Human Resources and eCommerce. For more information about interBiz, email interBiz@ca.com or visit interBiz on the Internet at interbiz.com.

About Computer Associates

Computer Associates International Inc delivers The Software That Manages eBusiness. CA's world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness process management, information management, and infrastructure management in six focus areas: enterprise management, security, storage, eBusiness transformation and integration, portal and knowledge management, and predictive analysis and visualization. Founded in 1976, CA serves organizations in more than 100 countries, including 99 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. For more information, please visit ca.com.

About Advanced Visual Systems

Advanced Visual Systems (AVS) is an international leader in data visualization software and solutions that enable computer users to experience and interact with all types of business, scientific and engineering data. AVS offers a complete line of products that bring information to life on all major computing platforms using the latest in graphics, Web-based and collaborative technologies. AVS is a wholly owned subsidiary of MUSE Technologies Inc and is dedicated to assisting clients in nearly every industry speed the process of data analysis and decision-making. For more information on AVS or MUSE call 781-890-4300, write to info@avs.com, or visit www.avs.com.

Contact Melissa Archambault of interBiz, 631-342-2075, Melissa.Archambault@ca.com.