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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 21, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 29

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Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:

CA Expands AllFusion Suite For Cross-Platform Management

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) announced extensions to its AllFusion line of application life cycle management solutions that streamline software configuration tasks, simplify mainframe change management, and enable customers to consistently manage change and perform configuration tasks across platforms, development environments and methodologies.

The extensions, part of CA's innovative AllFusion Change Management Suite, include the general availability of AllFusion Change Manager Enterprise Workbench, which integrates complex software development processes across mainframe and distributed platforms, and AllFusion Endevor Change Manager 4.0, the industry's leading mainframe change and configuration management solution.

"CA's AllFusion Change Management Suite delivers the management functionality our customers need in an easy-to-implement, easy-to-use package," said Gregory Clancy, CA's AllFusion brand manager. "Regardless of what combination of mainframe, Windows, UNIX, and Linux our customers are deploying, they can now take advantage of a common, fully integrated approach to manage their development operations."

Designed to streamline and automate complex software development processes across the enterprise, AllFusion Change Manager Enterprise Workbench provides a simple, centralized point-of-access for performing a full range of change and configuration management tasks. Such simplicity speeds development and eliminates many of the risks associated with developing complex applications, such as modifications to code without proper review.

AllFusion Change Manager Enterprise Workbench is also integrated with AllFusion Endevor Change Manager and AllFusion Harvest Change Manager, a change and configuration management solution that helps customers manage enterprise-wide development activities throughout the application development life cycle.

"AllFusion Change Manager Enterprise Workbench adds important and much-needed functionality to our development environment," said Claudia Giglio, Project Manager and Endevor Specialist for Banco Nossa Caixa, one of Brazil's largest financial institutions. "We have gained significantly improved and better- integrated control over development processes as a result of its implementation."

AllFusion Endevor Change Manager 4.0 provides maximum productivity while reducing the cost of managing mainframe software development and deployment. Enhancements include support for UNIX Systems Service (USS) and HFS, and other user-requested features such as element registration and element catalog, long element and file name support, additional processor JCL parameters, site symbolics and improved name masking.

"After a thorough evaluation, it became clear to us that CA's AllFusion suite offers the most inclusive, end-to-end, enterprise-wide life cycle management solution on the market today," said Paul Scusa, Manager of Systems Architecture at Central Florida Investments, Inc., one of Central Florida's largest privately-held vacation resort owners. "With AllFusion, we can bring new levels of flexibility, speed, and process control to our application development environment."

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