U.S. Army Selects Telos and Tivoli Systems to Provide Enterprise Management Solution to 435,000 Users Worldwide
ASHBURN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 1999--
Tivoli's Centralized IT Management Increases Army's Data Security,
Operating Readiness, Productivity
Telos(R) Corporation and Tivoli Systems Inc. today announced that
the two companies have teamed to deliver an Enterprise License
Agreement (ELA) to the U.S. Army. The agreement, for up to 435,000
licenses of Tivoli's Enterprise management software, along with
associated services and maintenance, will be fulfilled under the
three-year, blanket purchase agreement (BPA) developed by both Tivoli
and Telos and creates an enterprise management solution team with
Telos as team leader.
According to Yvonne Jackson, project manager for the Army's Small
Computer Program (SCP), the license agreement allows Tivoli and Telos
to deliver technologies that will vastly increase the Army's data
security, operating readiness and productivity on a global scale. "The
Army needs to centrally and securely manage information technology
systems that are geographically dispersed, whether they are spread out
across an Army post or across entire countries or theaters, such as
Europe or Southeast Asia," Jackson said. "By implementing an
Army-wide, enterprise management solution, we can quickly become aware
of IT issues before they affect our security or readiness."
Jan Lindelow, Tivoli chairman and CEO, said the agreement
illustrates Tivoli's strategy of leveraging partners to deliver its
products and services. "Our relationship with Telos and the U.S. Army
underscores the benefits of working closely with partners," Lindelow
said. "By serving as an enabler for its partners, Tivoli is
establishing a consistent global standard of excellence and continuing
to draw on our collective knowledge to help ensure the success of the
U.S. Army and customers worldwide."
John B. Wood, president and CEO for Telos, said that as team
leader on the BPA, Telos is responsible for ensuring that all of the
software is delivered and implemented effectively. "Telos is committed
to supporting the Army's use of Tivoli management software. That means
rapid implementation, configuration and training. Telos is ready to
support this ELA with the enterprise management services needed to
make the Army's Tivoli rollout successful." Wood said that Telos will
also be responsible for license distribution and management.
According to Martin Fredrickson, Tivoli director of government
sales, this license agreement serves as an important step in the Army
attaining its greatest return on investment in managing its diverse
enterprise. "The Army will receive significant benefits from Tivoli
Enterprise's centralized management capabilities both incrementally
and when fully deployed enterprise-wide," he said. "Each deployed
license represents a system that is being managed, which will save the
Army time, money and effort because IT personnel can be reassigned to
other important tasks. This license agreement allows for maximum
flexibility in the Army's dynamic operational environment."
Tivoli Enterprise allows centrally located administrators to
control the operation of heterogeneous networks, systems and
applications to reduce complexity and cost. All products in the
Enterprise management suite are DII COE compliant and include
enterprise-wide host and data security. Tivoli Enterprise allows
administrators to monitor performance from centrally located
management consoles. For example, Tivoli Enterprise can take an
inventory of computer assets, including software versions, hard drive
size and memory capacity; easily update software across distributed
systems; and maintain system and network availability.
Negotiated with the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command
Acquisition Center-Washington (CAC-W), the BPA will be administered by
the Army's Product Manager for Small Computer Program (PM-SCP) at Fort
Monmouth, New Jersey. The BPA was developed under the GSA schedules of
Tivoli and Telos.
About Telos Corporation
Telos delivers e-Solutions for Connected Enterprises. Telos'
e-Solutions help organizations take advantage of changing business
conditions through enabling technologies that link people, data and
ideas. Telos' e-Solutions include order status tracking, asset
visibility, patient record access, security and financial
reconciliation. Organizations from healthcare providers to the U.S.
Department of Defense depend on Telos innovations to improve
effectiveness and control the long-term costs of ownership.
The Company's partners include Tivoli Systems Inc., Verity, Inc.
and Enterworks, Inc. Telos is headquartered in Northern Virginia's
high technology corridor and maintains offices internationally. For
more information on Telos' solutions, visit the Company's Web site at
www.telos.com.
About Tivoli Systems Inc.
Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly
scalable and cross-platform IT management solutions that span
networks, systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce.
Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software and Tivoli
Ready products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing networks,
systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas,
Tivoli is an IBM Company. Tivoli distributes its products worldwide
through a network of global sales offices, systems integrators,
resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit Tivoli's
World Wide Web site at tivoli.com.
Tivoli and Tivoli Enterprise are registered trademarks or
trademarks of Tivoli Systems Inc., an IBM company. Telos is a
registered trademark and e-Solutions for Connected Enterprises is a
trademark of Telos Corporation. All other company and product names
may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are
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