COMPUTER ASSOCIATES TO LEVERAGE PLATINUM PRODUCTS TO BUILD NEW GENERATION E-COMMERCE PLATFORM

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) has announced it will leverage the products and technologies acquired in its recent purchase of PLATINUM technology International, inc. (PLATINUM) to build a new generation e-commerce platform.

CA will extend PLATINUM's outstanding portfolio of data mining, data warehouse and knowledge management technologies -- and combine them with CA's industry-leading information visualization, Neugents neural network technology and infrastructure management -- to create the world's most powerful and complete environment for end-to-end e-commerce.

CA will achieve these results through extensive investment in development of PLATINUM products and technologies, while integrating both its software and service resources into CA's strategic vision. These investments will maximize the combined strength of CA's newly-expanded lineup of mission-critical software solutions and worldwide value-added services, which will continue under the CA name. By allocating extensive resources to former PLATINUM products, CA will not only meet the needs of the significant installed base of PLATINUM clients, but extend the benefits of those products to CA's own global clients.

The announcement was made by CA Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang and CA President and COO Sanjay Kumar, who were joined by former PLATINUM President and CEO Andrew "Flip" Filipowski at a press conference in New York City today. CA's $3.5 billion acquisition of PLATINUM was the largest transaction in the history of the software industry.

"Our mission is not only to ensure that PLATINUM's outstanding technology portfolio continues to provide exceptional value to existing clients, but to leverage that technology to completely transform how companies do business globally over the Internet," said Wang. "By melding PLATINUM and CA resources, we will give businesses the ability to radically improve all aspects of e-commerce -- including how they sell, how they buy, how they analyze market behaviors, and how they respond to rapidly-changing market conditions. With our combined strengths, CA and PLATINUM can bring a level of automated intelligence and graphical intuitiveness to these processes that no other vendor can match."

PLATINUM's data warehousing and data mining solutions are key technologies for companies that need to leverage the customer data they have been accumulating for many years on varied systems and platforms. CA's revolutionary Neugents technology adds essential functionality by being able to rapidly derive usable information from this massive amount of unstructured data. CA's visualization technologies make this information accessible to users by presenting it in ways that are highly intuitive to enable quicker, smarter decision-making. CA's Unicenter TNG, in turn, is crucial for managing this infrastructure.

"CA clearly has a vision of how to maximize the value of PLATINUM's technologies and services that goes beyond mere feature/function improvements," said Filipowski. "CA is both protecting the interests of clients who are already using PLATINUM software and re-defining the role that our software can play in the larger context of e-commerce."

CA has organized the new products acquired from PLATINUM into seven broad categories:

• Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management -- CA will offer a comprehensive data warehousing infrastructure based on enterprise metadata, closely integrated with an enterprise intelligence portal, to provide clients with an active, personalized and open solution for information analysis. CA intends to integrate these solutions with its information infrastructure, which includes advanced visualization and Neugents to deliver predictive business information solutions that are extremely easy to use. CA will enhance PLATINUM's DecisionBase, InfoPump, InfoRefiner, and InfoTransport to include other CA technologies, such as data transport and enterprise access. CA will extend support for PLATINUM's leadership in enterprise metadata and repository technology with PLATINUM Repositories PR/MVS and PR/OEE. CA will also further PLATINUM's strategy to extend its leadership in the business intelligence tool market by bringing Forest and Trees, InfoBeacon, InfoReports and PRF together. CA will also create ERP-specific solution knowledge bases for DecisionBase.
• Application Development Solutions -- To improve design and deployment of a new generation of business applications, CA will integrate the ADvantage solutions into the Jasmine TND infrastructure. CA will also extend the ADvantage family of suites for enterprise modeling, enterprise component development, configuration management and process and project management. CA also plans to extend Aion into component-based development.
• Security -- CA will offer solutions based on technologies from CA, PLATINUM and MEMCO that cover the entire spectrum of IT security -- from protecting the hottest Web site to the largest mainframe -- for complete security in today's Internet age. Security solution areas include intrusion detection, firewall, content inspection, virtual private networks, access control, single sign-on, user administration, directory management, anti-virus, auditing, policy compliance and encryption. CA will continue to offer standalone best-of-breed security products, and integrated security solutions within Unicenter TNG.
• DB2 Solutions -- CA will deliver new production releases of DB2 solutions that exploit DB2 Version 6 -- including backup and recovery, database administration, database design, fast utilities and database performance management/analysis -- before the end of this year. CA will also continue to leverage the CA-Insight solution for monitoring the DB2 runtime environment and mainframe agent technology. CA life cycle management solutions will further expand the range of application development solutions for DB2. In addition, DB2 customers will benefit from Unicenter TNG and its DB2 management capabilities.
• Open Database Management -- CA will offer a total open database management solution including schema management, performance monitoring and tuning, offline and online reorganization, fast database loading and unloading, database analysis, backup and recovery, and stored procedure development for Oracle, SQL Server and other popular databases. CA will offer open, best-of breed solutions, integrated database management suites such as ProVision for Oracle, and integrated solutions with Unicenter TNG.
• Workload Scheduling -- CA will support PLATINUM's scheduling products, integrate them with existing CA scheduling products and deliver a single job management console that will consolidate and depict job flows and status of jobs across all environments. CA's scheduling solutions and the enterprise console will also tightly integrate with ERP applications from SAP, PeopleSoft, Baan, Oracle, and other leading ERP vendors. CA will continue to offer best-of-breed, standalone scheduling products, and integrated scheduling solutions within Unicenter TNG.
• Performance Management -- The entire spectrum of performance management solutions will be enabled with CA Business Process Views and informed by Neugents technology. Coverage will include end-to-end, real-time and historical monitoring and management of all resources, including applications, databases, middleware, groupware, systems, networks and non-IT devices. Powerful performance management applications will include automation, correlation, service level management, predictive and root cause analysis, and experience and knowledge-based services. CA will offer best-of-breed standalone performance management products, and performance management integrated with Unicenter TNG.

GPS Synergies

PLATINUM's Global Consulting Organization will strengthen CA's rapidly growing Global Professional Services (GPS), especially in Europe, where PLATINUM has a significant presence. With the integration of PLATINUM solutions and process techniques into current GPS practices, clients can quickly realize greater value from their technology investments in areas such as e-commerce, security assessments and knowledge management.

GPS will incorporate PLATINUM's application development best practices, management approaches and development tools into its Application Services Practice. PLATINUM's data warehousing, data mining and meta-data management products and processes, for example, perfectly complement GPS' unique Enterprise Delivery Centers -- application software factories that deliver mission-critical solutions to clients.

"The synergies between CA and PLATINUM go far beyond a good applications fit," said CA's Kumar. "PLATINUM has also brought CA outstanding people, service offerings and methodologies that will be of vital strategic value in helping our clients meet their most pressing business challenges."

Clients will also have the option of licensing CA/PLATINUM products under CA's innovative licensing plans, which can offer flexibility and savings over traditional licensing agreements.

CA plans to issue detailed product roadmaps at CA-World 1999 and PLATforum, the annual user group meetings that will run concurrently July 18-23 in New Orleans.

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.

For more information about CA, please call 516-342-5224 or email info@cai.com. CA's World Wide Web address is http://www.cai.com.