Press Release

WELLESLEY, MA December 4, 2002 - DYS Analytics, Inc., the leader in traffic management and optimization solutions, today announced the shipment of Email CONTROL! version 4.0 for both IBM Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange environments. Email CONTROL! 4.0 enables enterprises to run their messaging networks at peak efficiency by optimizing their email infrastructure and thereby reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and improving service levels. With the new CONTROL! 4 architecture, unique multi-platform availability and expanded feature set of Email CONTROL! 4.0, DYS Analytics enhances its market leadership with proven scalability at Global 2000 organizations.

As email usage grows at a staggering pace, enterprises are struggling to control email infrastructure costs while assuring that email delivery service levels remain high. Email CONTROL! 4.0 automates the measurement, analysis, trending and reporting of messaging traffic across the enterprise, making it easy to generate vital system metrics and usage pattern information essential to optimizing their network.

The product helps reduce costs and improve performance in the day-to-day operational needs of running a complex global messaging network. Email CONTROL! 4.0 also helps optimize the planning and execution of strategic IT initiatives such as server consolidations, network mergers and software/platform migrations, resulting in lower project costs and faster delivery with reduced risk and service disruptions. By gathering detailed, accurate metrics on actual usage, Email CONTROL! 4.0 helps IT staffs to:

• Reduce infrastructure and management costs through more efficient load balancing and capacity planning, faster troubleshooting, email usage policy creation and enforcement and cost allocation.
• Quickly troubleshoot email bottlenecks and service interruptions - proactively finding performance issues before they impact the user's experience.
• Optimize planning and successful execution of strategic network projects by providing critical metrics on messaging traffic and trends before, during and after project completion.
• Improve service level performance by defining goals and objectively measuring compliance and identifying areas for improvement.
• Achieve a return on investment (ROI) typically in six months or less.

"Helps Run IT More Efficiently"

"In these days of increased scrutiny on IT spending, Email CONTROL! 4.0 lets us run our Domino network more efficiently so we can do a lot more with less," said Ron Meyers, Manager, Lotus Notes Systems at Anixter, Inc., the world's leading distributor of data communications products and electrical wire and cable. "Email CONTROL! 4.0 has not only accelerated my team's ability to spot and fix problems but has also given us the data we need to quickly identify inefficiencies and fix them before our end users are affected. Before Email CONTROL!, we could only do this through a very laborious process or not at all. We also particularly enjoy the new CONTROL! 4.0 Portal feature that lets us easily provide direct analysis for email spam filtering and other IT groups such as network security."

"In this economy, IT staffs must get control of their messaging infrastructure costs," said Marco Farsheed, CEO of DYS Analytics. "We are proud to deliver the industry's most scalable and flexible multi-platform solution for messaging management. At a time when many enterprises need to make the most of existing infrastructure and staffing resources, our new Email CONTROL! helps them optimize their messaging network, with a ROI in a matter of months."

What's New in Version 4.0

Email CONTROL! 4.0 offers a competitively superior solution for complex messaging environments by providing:

• Unique multi-platform support - Email CONTROL! 4.0 is available for both Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino platforms. It uniquely addresses those organizations who are maintaining a hybrid environment for messaging and collaborative applications or who are migrating from one messaging platform to another.
• Web-based Reporting - customized and dynamic CONTROL! Portals for "at-a-glance" access to traffic information across the organization. Delivers personalized and relevant information to key audiences - whether as a summary view for executive management, more detailed reports for enterprise-wide server operations, capacity planning and load balancing, or user-specific information for audit and security purposes or user policy enforcement.
• Automated Report Generation and Delivery - the new CONTROL! Task Manager automatically runs and distributes reports by email or posts to CONTROL! Portals on a predefined schedule.
• Powerful new report types for aggregate reporting, multi-column comparisons and more - Email CONTROL! 4.0 provides over 100 standard reports, and unlimited custom reports that lets users drill-down for exhaustive tracking, reporting and analysis of all messaging components and vital indicators such as server traffic, disk consumption, network bandwidth loads and user activity.
• Interactive Report Designer -allows users to quickly and easily design custom reports or modify existing reports to address unique network reporting requirements.
• Report Assistant - a plain-language wizard that guides users to the right standard report or helps them build a new report based on predefined templates.