To: Sheldon C. who wrote (3514 ) 5/5/1998 10:11:00 AM From: dwight martin Respond to of 4676
Tuesday May 5, 9:24 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: The National Registry Inc. Computer Associates Honors National Registry With Unicenter TNG Software Achievement Award NRI Named Gold Winner for Best Security Agent Developed for Unicenter TNG TAMPA, Fla., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Registry Inc. (Nasdaq: NRID - news; NRI) today announced that Computer Associates International, Inc., recognized NRI's NRIdentity Secure Authentication Facility for Unicenter TNG (SAF/TNG), a client/server software solution that provides biometric authentication of users, as the Gold Winner in the Unicenter TNG Software Achievement Awards. Winners were announced before a crowd of more than 20,000 IT professionals at CA-World 1998 last week in New Orleans . SAF/TNG beat a number of competing entries in the best Security Agent Developed for Unicenter TNG award category. As a part of the ceremony, Charles Wang, CA chairman and CEO, presented a $40,000 Gold Winner check to NRI. SAF/TNG provides enterprise level identification and authentication biometric security for Computer Associates Unicenter TNG and its Single Sign- On Option. It authenticates system administrators and end-users allowing secure access to multiple applications in a multi-vendor, multi-system environment. Multiple biometrics are available for authentication, such as finger imaging, voice pattern, or facial recognition. ''NRI is honored to be recognized as a semifinalist in the Unicenter TNG Software Achievement Awards,'' said John Gustafson, president and CEO of NRI. ''We are proud to be partnered with CA for the benefit of our customers and we appreciate CA's recognition of our technical achievement.'' Hundreds of clients, systems integrators and platform providers submitted applications based upon a successful integration with Unicenter TNG. Applicants were required to submit a brief description of the innovative technology solution created with Unicenter TNG and its impact on business or society. The following categories were recognized for Unicenter TNG Software Achievement Awards: Best Use of Unicenter TNG Internet Technology Best IT Intelligent Agent Developed for Unicenter TNG Best Non-Computing Agent Developed for Unicenter TNG Best Application Agent Developed for Unicenter TNG Best Security Agent Developed for Unicenter TNG Most Creative Application Built Upon Unicenter TNG Greatest Competitive Advantage Derived by Unicenter TNG Implementation Unicenter TNG is an integrated enterprise management solution that enables organizations to manage all IT resources, encompassing heterogeneous networks, systems, applications, and databases. It provides comprehensive end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP, SNA, IPX/SPX and DECnet networks, and 40 platforms including desktops, Windows NT, UNIX, AS/400, NetWare and mainframe environments. Unicenter TNG is the only fully integrated management solution covering network discovery, topology, performance, events and status, security, software distribution, storage, workload, help desk, change management and other functions for traditional and distributed computing environments, as well as for the Internet and intranets. Unicenter TNG's intelligent manager/agent technology delivers highly scalable management of the entire computing environment, including hardware and software.