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Hewlett-Packard Wins Grand Prize In Computer Associates' Unicenter TNG Software Achievement Awards Competition
CA's Charles B. Wang Honors 18 Companies From Around The World For Solutions That Impact Business And Society
CA-WORLD, NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 1998-- Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) Tuesday named Hewlett-Packard Company, which integrated its TopTools management software with CA's Unicenter TNG Framework, as the grand prize winner of the Unicenter TNG Software Achievement Awards competition. HP is shipping the Unicenter TNG Framework with the HP L series of NetServers.
Seventeen other companies also won awards for using Unicenter TNG to create high impact solutions for business and society. Hundreds of CA partners, clients, systems integrators and platform providers submitted applications since the contest was announced at CA-World'97.
''Computer Associates is pleased to honor Hewlett-Packard and all the other outstanding semifinalists in the Unicenter TNG Software Achievement Awards competition,'' said CA Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang. ''It was difficult selecting the winners, given the uniformly high quality of the entries we received and the permanent value added to the Unicenter TNG portfolio of solutions.
''The real winners, of course, are the thousands of clients who rely on Unicenter TNG,'' said Wang. ''Thanks to the contributions made by these honorees, enterprises around the world will now have more powerful tools and processes to address their compelling business challenges.''
Wang said HP won the grand prize for its integration of HP TopTools with Unicenter TNG. HP TopTools simplifies and enhances the management of HP hardware by using Unicenter TNG to launch applications and forward hardware events to the Unicenter TNG event management console. With Unicenter TNG and HP TopTools, clients have a cost-effective and efficient solution for managing HP hardware within the enterprise. To promote out-of-box manageability of HP NetServers in the Unicenter TNG environment, HP is shipping the Unicenter TNG Framework with the HP L series of NetServers.
CA also announced the following semifinalist award winners and the categories in which they were evaluated:
Best Use Of Unicenter TNG Internet Technology
Exodus Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet system and network management solutions for enterprises with mission-critical Internet operations. Together with HeadsUp Site Monitor, a Java application developed by Exodus Communications, Inc., Unicenter TNG provides technology managers with one integrated view into a wealth of server metrics, key events and other information that tracks the well being of Internet resources. This integrated application allows customers to securely monitor the health of Internet applications from any location, with the ease of a Web browser.
Advanced Internet Management (AIM) makes the process of managing electronic commerce systems simple and hassle free. Using Unicenter TNG and AIM's Battlestar application management products, the company provides management solutions for the entire e-commerce environment, including credit card processors, databases, host resources, and networks. Unicenter TNG reduced AIM's development time and product price, while ensuring continuous availability of business-critical e-commerce environments.
NCR Corporation is a leading provider of information technology solutions that enable businesses to capture and analyze data. With Unicenter TNG as the backbone, NCR engineers in Denmark and California jointly developed a single consolidation point for managing NCR's High Availability Internet Server solution. Along with delivering a single interface for all diverse systems in the entire enterprise, Unicenter TNG's Auto Discovery, Worldview APIs, and Business Process Views ensure that NCR customers receive highly available critical business applications and more reliable service. NCR supports Unicenter TNG enterprise management solutions and has chosen to bundle the Unicenter TNG Framework with all its systems.
Best IT Intelligent Agent
CityCom B.V. specializes in designing, installing, and upgrading components and monitoring return path and other systems for cable television networks. Unicenter TNG agent technology enabled CityCom to create ccAgent, which monitors, controls, and tracks approximately 2,000 remote non-SNMP managed objects. With Unicenter TNG, CityCom now has a state-of-the-art object monitoring system that delivers availability, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Telexis S.R.L. developed a new agent to manage and control complex telephone PBX networks, which serve approximately 40,000 people. Unicenter TNG helped automate repetitive tasks that were previously performed manually and prone to errors. The Unicenter TNG 3D Real World Interface made management of critical tasks simple and efficient.
Best Non-Computing Agent Developed for Unicenter TNG
West McLaren Mercedes is one of the most successful Formula One racing teams in the world. Unicenter TNG and its Intelligent Agent Technology allowed West McLaren Mercedes engineers to revolutionize the processing of telemetry data from their Formula One race cars. The agent enables engineers to apply thresholding and correlation techniques to critical parameters, such as throttle response, brake pressure, gearing, engine RPM and G-forces. It also enables complex telemetry analysis to be monitored in another unique manner.
RAMA Technologies develops and markets management systems and turnkey solutions for central monitoring and control of mission-critical business equipment. Combined with RAMA's Network Management Gateway, Unicenter TNG agent technology monitors and controls a wide range of non- IT devices, such as PBX, UPS, security, fire and environmental control systems. Unicenter TNG is the common thread that laces the multitude of IT and non-IT devices into a cohesive, seamless framework.
Exide Electronics, Inc. provides strategic power management solutions for the world's most mission-critical applications, including NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, MCI, and the Social Security Administration. Unicenter TNG and Exide's FORESEER management system proactively manages non-traditional devices and critical foundation equipment, such as power systems, air conditioning, and safety and security devices. The integration of Unicenter TNG and FORESEER also provides predictive maintenance and performance analysis tools to support facilities equipment.
Best Application Agent Developed For Unicenter TNG
Lehman Brothers is a leading global investment bank serving the financial needs of corporations, institutions, governments and high net worth investors around the world. Lehman Brothers worked in concert with NetCom Systems, Inc., a custom development and installation service, to implement the management of a global messaging system that serves as the infrastructure for all facets of the investment firm's financial services. NetCom's highly sophisticated and flexible management policies, in combination with Unicenter TNG agent technology, ensures consistent, timely and accurate financial information.
Jacksonville Electric Authority is Florida's largest municipally-owned electric power and water utility company. JEA developed a custom agent that constantly monitors the integrity of process data collected through interfaces to the company's various control systems. Unicenter TNG monitors the health of the distributed data collection system from a single console. This system monitors data related to electric power production and will soon monitor electrical distribution, as well as municipal water and wastewater operations. Now, JEA can proactively manage these production systems to avoid critical outages and maintain its position as the lowest cost utility provider in the state of Florida.
Best Security Agent Developed For Unicenter TNG
The National Registry, Inc. (NRI) is an enterprise-level biometric solutions company focused on the identification and authentication of individuals. The NRI Secure Authentication Facility (SAF) integrates with Unicenter TNG to create finger-image, voice pattern, and facial image user identification that delivers a positive, bulletproof security system. NRI used Unicenter TNG's Single Sign-On solution and enterprise management GUI as the foundation for its imaging technology. With Unicenter TNG, systems administrators and end-users benefit from tremendous productivity gains by simplifying access to multiple network, system and application resources.
RF Ideas, Inc., is a pioneer in radio frequency identification technology for enterprise network applications. In conjunction with Unicenter TNG's Single Sign-On option, the company's proximity activated ID badge, AIR ID, provides a walk-away, hands-free security solution. The integrated solution prevents unauthorized systems access when sanctioned users leave their respective workstation environments. The ability for a user to sign on once for all authorized IT resources, and then automatically secure those assets when leaving the workstation area, provides an invaluable advantage for today's security- conscious enterprises.
Most Creative Application Of Unicenter TNG
Interfacing Technologies Corp. (ITC) provides world-class business process management solutions, object-oriented tools and technologies to a wide variety of organizations throughout the world. ITC uses Unicenter TNG to create a common interface that allows monitoring of all IT resources and provides a central repository for critical business processes. The combination of Unicenter TNG and ITC's FirstSTEP business process model makes it possible for managers to identify performance improvement opportunities and respond to critical events that threaten customer satisfaction.
Groupe Silicomp provides a wide range of services across the majority of industries in the real time network and systems integration marketplace. The company created the CORBA-compliant product APPLI-BUS, that integrates with Unicenter TNG to monitor a production manufacturing environment from anywhere in the world. Using Unicenter TNG management policies, Groupe Silicomp created a completely new way of resolving manufacturing problems --sending information from the shop floor to the desktop-- to monitor the wide variety of devices on a factory floor. Groupe Silicomp has also developed an agent and associated policies that control and manage robotic arms on manufacturing shop floors.
Greatest Competitive Advantage Derived Implementing Unicenter TNG
The European Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children addresses the international challenge of using technology to help locate children missing, abducted, or at risk for sexual abuse. The Center was able to free Its staff to focus on the critical issue of missing children by relying on Unicenter TNG to manage and control network resources. By expanding the meaning of what is normally considered data, for instance, in the Unicenter TNG object repository, new data types were defined so that missing children and police contacts could be more quickly tracked and managed.
Digital Equipment Corp., recognized for product and service excellence, is a leading supplier of high-performance, Web-based computing solutions. For Digital Outsourcing Management Services in France, Unicenter TNG was the glue that solidified its relationship with a major European retail center, replacing its aging computing infrastructure with Digital UNIX platforms, Oracle databases, and Microsoft NT servers. The best solution that could effectively manage these distributed operations was Unicenter TNG. Digital is a preferred service provider of Unicenter TNG solutions and has chosen to bundle the Unicenter TNG Framework with all its systems.
''We continue to be delighted with the almost encyclopedic development that our partners bring to the table, making Unicenter TNG even more responsive to our clients,'' said Wang. ''We applaud the contributions of all third-party developers who, by developing new software agents, adds-ons, and other extensions, help address more of the very real business challenges that confront our clients.''
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA - news), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.5 billion in calendar year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com, or calling 1-516-342-5224.
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