July 11, 2001
 

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CA Integrates OpenViz Data Visualization Technology From Advanced Visual Systems Into CleverPath eBusiness Process Management Suite

 'Contextual Visualization' Speeds Business Intelligence For Banking, Finance and Supply Chain Management, Delivering Management Attention Where It's Needed-When It's Needed

CA WORLD, ORLANDO, FL, July 11, 2001 Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) announced today that Advanced Visual Systems (AVS), an international leader in data visualization software, has provided highly interactive data visualization techniques for CleverPath, CA's leading eBusiness Process Management suite. CleverPath is an eBusiness information infrastructure helping ìbrick and mortar companies accelerate their integration with the web.

CleverPath provides an infrastructure for integrating and leveraging a companys information assets from a broad variety of sources including application programs, devices, collaborating businesses and information from the web. CleverPath 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 CleverPath are enabled by the OpenViz development platform from AVS. Examples of OpenViz visualization techniques can be found at www.openviz.com.

AVSí feature-rich OpenViz development platform is designed to bring highly interactive data visualization capabilities to products such as CleverPath 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. CleverPath 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.

CleverPath Business Intelligent Agents introduce a web mining technique that allows users to actively monitor and distill the worldís greatest information resourceóthe World Wide Webófor competitive information from public or subscription web sites. Once imported into CleverPath, 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 CA software agents to set up and monitor thresholds on important devices, databases or processes.

OpenViz visualization capabilities are invoked from CleverPath's on-screen ìdashboards, which 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 customersí 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, CA has clearly established a new standard in fully-integrated eBusiness Process Management solutions with CleverPath, 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 CA, 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 CleverPath 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 of CA. CleverPath 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 CleverPath, CA customers are able to experience new dimensions of interaction and visual understanding, strengthening the CA mission of intelligently analyzing and contextually visualizing the extended enterprise in real time.

About Computer Associates

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) delivers the software that manages eBusiness. CAís 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, visit http://ca.com/

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