Press Release

WELLESLEY MA December 21, 2004 - DYS Analytics, Inc., a privately held leader in application performance management for messaging and collaboration applications, announced that it closed its financial year ending October 31, 2004 with several major sales to leading firms in the financial services sector. These organizations are purchasing, deploying or expanding their use of DYS CONTROL! to best facilitate corporate infrastructure integration brought about by merger or acquisition, the need to lower operational costs or the requirement to be compliant with new financial services regulations.

DYS Analytics now assists five of the top 10 US financial services companies and other insurance and banking leaders in finding ways to "Efficiencize" their global collaboration networks for optimal email, collaborative database, Instant Messaging, and e-Meetings application performance. With DYS' CONTROL! solutions, financial services firms and others assure their IT systems operate at peak service levels and lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).

Deregulation and merger & acquisition activity in the financial services sector are forcing organizations to take a closer look at the technology that allows them to remain competitive. IT staffs are being tasked to lower TCO and free thinning margins, while integrating other firms' networks smoothly and breathing new life into IBM Lotus Domino infrastructures that may have grown up as a patchwork of servers, applications and networks. Yet IT lacks the detailed metrics and trend information it needs to develop and implement a robust, efficient and resilient network. Leading financial organizations have purchased DYS' CONTROL! solutions to:

• Tighten Security and Regulatory Compliance - through chat logging, IM keyword alerting, email reporting and database usage monitoring, to meet regulatory needs and quickly identify potential misuse or abuse.
• Continually Lower Operational Costs through both major projects and day-to-day troubleshooting with small but high-ROI activities such as database and user ID cleanup that tap hidden sources of cost- and time-savings.
• Facilitate Corporate Mergers by delivering accurate, enterprise-wide usage analysis, IT can determine how discrete networks are best merged. DYS CONTROL! provides the insight to optimally merge these networks, servers, applications and Instant Messaging applications.
• Monitor SLA Compliance by providing to the business units objective reports to the business units showing end-to-end delivery times, compliancy as well as getting detailed reports to address SLA issues before they impact the contracted terms.
• Streamline Corporate Assets through server consolidations, platform upgrades, migrations, topology designs, application rollouts and capacity planning - lowering the costs, risks and the potential organizational impact of such change.
• Budget Accurately by more accurately planning future capacity needs and budgets. IT no longer has to guess or use outdated assumptions as CONTROL! provides accurate and detailed enterprise-wide reports, trends and analysis.

Tame Email, IM, WAN Costs
"The most difficult aspect of our Domino iSeries server consolidation project was anticipating how the consolidation would affect the network. The DYS CONTROL! suites were integral to this planning process. We first used CONTROL! to document and forecast server-to-server replication traffic. We then used CONTROL! to create very accurate models of the existing and future email usage and traffic loads," said an IT Director at one of DYS' Financial Services customers. "As the project progressed, we used CONTROL! to continually validate our assumptions and update our models. With DYS CONTROL!, we were able to accurately plan for network capacity and ultimately meet our project goals for fast ROI and superior performance."

"Financial services leaders have been heavy users of DYS Analytics' solutions for years, and major industry trends are today accelerating our adoption," said Stefan Mehlhorn, CEO of DYS Analytics. "In today's increasingly dynamic climate, our solutions provide an even greater value as these firms focus on cost-containment, performance improvement, and tightening security."

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1. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 30, 2004, as ranked by assets.

DYS CONTROL! application performance management solutions let IT managers "Efficiencize" the use of email, instant messaging, e-Meeting and application databases for improved operational efficiencies, higher service levels and reduced TCO. Using CONTROL!, IT analyze, gain health/availability metrics and report on enterprise-wide usage of collaborative applications such as IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing and IBM Workplace Team Collaboration (formerly QuickPlace). Armed with these metrics, IT professionals accelerate strategic projects like platform upgrades, server consolidations, topology redesigns and merger/acquisition-related network changes. By having a complete picture of their traffic, usage and performance, IT staff can proactively manage their network, dramatically reduce operational costs and improve messaging performance levels.