Press Release

Wellesley, MA September 22, 2003 - DYS Analytics, Inc., the leader in application management for messaging and collaboration and an IBM Business Partner, today announced that its family of CONTROL! enterprise application management solutions supports the latest IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino 6.5 release. By leveraging the enhancements built into this newest version of the industry's leading collaboration environment, DYS's CONTROL! solutions continue to help Lotus Notes and Domino customers reduce their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and improve Quality of Service (QoS).

DYS CONTROL! provides comprehensive usage metrics, analysis and monitoring for more efficient management of Lotus Notes and Domino networks. DYS CONTROL! solutions enable IT staffs to proactively optimize their messaging and collaboration environment and gain the in-depth understanding required for successful execution of strategic projects such as server consolidations, platform upgrades/migrations and topology redesigns. CONTROL! solutions for email, replication, applications and instant collaboration track and analyze usage and performance data across the enterprise and provide both pre-designed and customized reports that can be tailored to audience needs. The latest addition to the DYS CONTROL! family, Collaboration CONTROL!, expands on DYS' core usage management focus by adding the industry's first real-time health and availability monitoring for IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (formerly IBM Lotus Sametime).

With CONTROL!, IT professionals can make their IBM Lotus network more efficient by balancing loads, optimizing email, replication and collaboration topologies, removing unused databases and more accurately planning server, storage and bandwidth capacity requirements. Additionally, IT staffs can report on service levels for mail delivery, replication and instant collaboration. By gaining a complete picture of their traffic, usage and performance, customers can substantially lower their Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure and management costs and improve service levels.

DYS CONTROL! provides immediate value for customers who are upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 by offering insight into their current Lotus Domino network before implementing the upgrade. DYS CONTROL! helps IT staffs cleanup legacy mailboxes, servers, applications, replicas and messaging and replication topologies before upgrading. An optimized Lotus Domino network helps to ensure on-time and on-budget completion of upgrade projects with little or no end user impact.

Taking Best Advantage of Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5

"New Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 features such as embedded IBM Lotus Instant Messaging support, expanded server platforms such as Linux and Windows Server 2003, and improvements to the client user interface will greatly increase Lotus Notes and Domino's usability and adoption by our Global 2000 customers," said Andrew Wolff, vice president of products for DYS. "We expect this release to accelerate upgrades and migrations to the Lotus ND 6.5 platform, and DYS CONTROL! provides customers with the critical metrics they need to fully optimize their Lotus Notes, Domino and IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing environments."

"Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 provides users with new tools to deal with the constant influx of information they receive daily, and we are happy to have the additional monitoring, control and analysis capabilities of the DYS CONTROL! products available to offer our customers," said Ken Bisconti, Vice President, Lotus Workplace Products, IBM Lotus Software. "Business partners like DYS Analytics continue to play a pivotal role in our evolving Workplace strategy by offering additional value to Lotus customers."