CA Announces Breakthrough Jasmine TND, the Ultimate Intelligent Infrastructure For E-Business Applications
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Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) has announced its revolutionary Jasmine TND intelligent information infrastructure. Jasmine TND empowers organizations to build high-value, network-enabled applications that effectively leverage a broad spectrum of enterprise information resources, Web communication facilities and end-user devices -- delivering substantial competitive advantages in the rapidly evolving e-business environment.

CA's revolutionary Neugents neural agent technology, which can detect complex, otherwise unseen patterns in huge volumes of data, has been built directly into Jasmine TND. Neugents enables a new generation of business applications that can not only analyze conditions in business markets and technical environments, but can also predict changes in those conditions. They also can suggest courses of action to proactively capitalize on opportunities and/or avoid potential problems.

"Jasmine TND's unique combination of intelligence, visualization, integration and network enablement makes it an extremely powerful solution for organizations competing in an increasingly information-based economy," said CA Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang during his keynote address at NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas. "Armed with Jasmine TND, organizations can reduce development costs, create value-rich applications and get to market faster."

Jasmine TND users can quickly deploy Neugents anywhere and anytime. For example, Neugents can identify potential customers for new products and services, resulting in faster growth and higher margins. Neugents can also analyze market behaviors, courses of medical treatment and complex manufacturing processes. Most important, because Neugents are self-learning, they can automatically adapt to changing conditions without requiring extensive reconfiguration or recoding.

Flexible Web Deployment

Jasmine TND enables the rapid deployment of Internet, intranet and client/server applications, using Jasmine's Builder environment or popular development tools. Server-side processes developed under Jasmine TND can provide compelling dynamic content to a full range of thin clients. Jasmine TND's support for diverse deployment devices, including palmtops and PDAs, allows corporate developers to fully empower employees, customers and other virtual business partners on an anywhere, anytime basis.

Unparalleled Data Source and Application Integration

Jasmine TND exploits the enormous IT investments in databases, applications and personnel -- directly integrating data from not only traditional data sources residing on mainframes, Unix and Windows systems, but from nontraditional sources such as e-mail, directories, intelligent agents and stock market feeds.

These integration facilities allow existing business logic written in Java, Visual Basic and other popular languages to be reused in new applications. In addition, components built using widely deployed industry standards such as COM and CORBA can be leveraged within the Jasmine environment. Even terminal-based host applications can be wrapped, without change, and reused in new, distributed Internet-enabled applications.

This wide range of integration points helps ensure the ongoing adaptability of Jasmine-developed software to changing business requirements and conditions, and allows customers to capitalize on new data sources as they become available.

Support for Robust Visualization Paradigms

Jasmine TND supports a variety of robust visualization paradigms, including the 3D approach that has been so instrumental in the success of CA's industry-leading Unicenter TNG enterprise management software. The ability to quickly assemble content from diverse sources and present it in a wide range of dynamic and highly intuitive formats -- including ready-to-print brochures and visually compelling Web pages -- further boosts the business value realized from data and development investments.

Jasmine TND shares its underlying infrastructure with Unicenter TND, allowing corporate developers to engineer the complete array of enterprise security and management services into new applications from the ground up.

"As the complexity of technology continues to escalate, customers are looking for more and more ways to streamline technology deployments," said Wang. "The combination of Jasmine and Unicenter TND fit the bill for this objective perfectly."

Praise From Clients and Analysts

Reaction to Jasmine TND from clients and analysts has been extremely positive:

• Marianne Moss, director, systems development and technology, American Hotel Register: "Jasmine TND's intelligent infrastructure enables American Hotel Register to build a customer intimate Web environment. The powerful combination of Neugents and visualization delivers applications that increase sales by suggesting products to buyers based on their interests and our promotional activities. Jasmine TND also provides significant cost savings by better matching our products to customer needs, thereby reducing customer returns."
• Linda Reino, chief information officer, information services, Universal Health Services: "We are excited by the benefits that Jasmine TND will provide UHS. With the ability for our new Jasmine applications to learn from experience, from actual patient data, UHS can better manage critical areas such as insurance claim processing and drug distribution and dispensation. Jasmine's new infrastructure will allow us to widen the reach of our deployment platforms for doctors and nurses, significantly increasing accessibility and productivity."
• Ulma Gonzalez, division director data administration, information technology department, Miami Dade County: "We are very excited by what Jasmine TND offers Miami Dade County. Jasmine's learning capabilities through CA's Neugent technology could significantly enhance the development of our proposed contract monitoring system to manage thousands of complex contracts. This will allow us to prevent contract amount overruns and ensure timely renewals. As a result, Miami Dade County will provide better service for our citizens at a lower cost."
• Tony Picardi, group vice president, worldwide software, International Data Corp.: "Jasmine TND with intelligence everywhere represents a compelling advance in application development, deployment and integration both from the ability to add "smarts" to applications and the development process itself. For the first time, dynamic visual applications can be built on a single infrastructure, which leverages existing investments in information systems, and delivers intelligent services for strategic business initiatives."
• David Kelly, vice president of research services, Hurwitz Group: "We see an urgent business need to deliver intelligent, adaptive applications that turn the vast quantities of accumulated data into business results. These applications must leverage an infrastructure that integrates intelligence with information from across the enterprise."

Computer Associates International, Inc., a world leader in mission-critical business computing, provides software, support and integration services in more than 100 countries around the world. CA has more than 14,000 employees and had revenue of $5.3 billion in fiscal year 1999.

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