COMPUTRON INTRODUCES SENTINEL, THE FIRST REAL-TIME WORKFLOW PROCESS
MONITOR

SENTINEL COMBINES COMPUTRON S AWARD-WINNING WORKFLOW PRODUCT WITH ARBOR
SOFTWARE S ESSBASE MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASE SERVER TO ALLOW REAL-TIME
MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS PROCESSES

COMPUTRON DEMONSTRATING SENTINEL AT 1996 AIIM SHOW IN CHICAGO

RUTHERFORD, N.J., APRIL 1, 1996 -- Computron Software Inc. (Nasdaq: CTRN)
has introduced Computron Sentinel, the software industry's first real-time
business process monitoring system for workflow applications. Sentinel is
the latest enhancement to Computron Workflow, an Imaging Magazine Product
of the Year, and utilizes Arbor Software Corporation s Essbase OLAP
(On-Line Analytical Processing) engine to represent in-process workflows
in an innovative multidimensional model.

Workflow software allows users to automate and simplify business processes
by defining and automating the rules, roles and routes that are integral
to business processes and the people who participate in them. As a result,
the workflow system not only simplifies and automates the flow of
electronic information from point to point through the enterprise, but
also enhances the performance of traditional computer-based tasks. Until
now, however, workflow monitoring has consisted of "after-the-fact"
reports generated by the workflow system.

"With Computron Sentinel, users of workflow software can monitor business
processes as they are performed in much the same way that real-time shop
floor systems track manufacturing processes," said Christopher Mauldin,
Director of Strategic Planning for Computron Software Inc. "This is a
first for workflow users, and it will significantly enhance their ability
to closely manage business processes and quickly make day-to-day business
decisions with confidence. Computron Sentinel will allow companies to
become more proactive in managing their business process environment."

The Computron Sentinel system shows a real-time picture of automated
business processes, including:

 - What tasks are being performed;
 - The depth of workflow queues (by task or by individual);
 - Average cycle times per work item;
 - Workflow thresholds that are being exceeded.

Workflow thresholds, for instance, can be automatically established based
on historical trend analysis. Computron Sentinel can automatically
generate a warning and, if appropriate, trigger a workflow event such as
electronic mail notifications to the supervisor. In addition, flashing
color changes on the real-time monitor screen alert supervisors to take
corrective actions.

Computron Sentinel not only provides real-time workflow tracking, but also
allows a graphical review of workflow history. Thus, Sentinel system users
can perform a "fast-forward" review of a particular period of time. When
exceptions occur -- perhaps graphically represented by a spike in a graph
-- users can pause the display and drill down into the workflow database
for more information, and they can take corrective action if necessary.
Furthermore, Sentinel system provides a rich source of workflow metrics --
cycle times, occurrences outside of deviations, costing of processes --
all of which can be utilized for process improvement and "what-if" testing
in a sophisticated computer simulation system. Computron Sentinel thus
becomes a vital information source for resource planning and workload
balancing.

Arbor Software s Essbase fills an essential function in the Sentinel
system, Mauldin said, "because it stores information in a manner that
highly optimizes random information retrieval and manipulation." In
practice, Essbase receives a complete "snapshot" of workflow system data
every few minutes. Then Essbase allows the Sentinel system to extract that
up-to-date workflow information for use in a wide range of graphical
views, for measurement of precise system metrics, and to trigger automatic
workflow "events" such as notifying a supervisor when workloads are
imbalanced or predefined thresholds are exceeded.

Using Essbase with Sentinel, users can now perform departmental reporting,
marketing analysis, expense analysis, and customer and product
profitability models from information previously locked up in
computer-stored images and documents. While reviewing the Essbase
reporting model in a spreadsheet, users can "drill down" to the actual
stored invoice, purchase order, project notes, or variance explanation
directly from Essbase. Essbase polls the workflow system and retrieves
statistics at predetermined time intervals, building a historical
multidimensional view of all the automated processes.

Computron Sentinel s graphical metaphor, which can be customized by the
user, is another key component of its functionality. "Sentinel allows a
manager to monitor intuitively what s going on in a business process,"
Mauldin explained. "And because the system is exception- driven, the
manager can make decisions when problems occur, rather than having to
search for problems to solve."

Arbor Software Corporation Background Information

Arbor Software Corporation (Nasdaq: ARSW) develops and markets
client/server software for business planning, analysis and management
reporting. Arbor s products are used by more than 650 corporations
spanning a broad range of industries and business applications, including
Bank of Boston, Emery Worldwide, Fidelity, Los Angeles Times, Neutrogena,
Pennzoil, PEPSICO, Prudential and Sears. Arbor has over 80 application,
services, tools and platform partners, including Comshare, Hewlett-
Packard, IBM and Microsoft. Arbor s products are sold direct, as well as
through system integrators and VARs worldwide. Arbor s offices are located
in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York,
Sunnyvale, Washington, D.C., and London. More information on Arbor
products and services can be found on Arbor s World Wide Web (WWW) site at
http://www.arborsoft.com.

Computron Software Inc. Background Information Headquartered in Rutherford,
N.J., Computron Software is an international software company that
designs, markets and supports n-tier client/server- based financial,
workflow and computer output on-line (COOL) report/data archiving software
solutions that are interoperable across most major UNIX and legacy
architectures, as well as on Microsoft Windows NT. Computron was one of
the pioneers in the development and integration of high-impact business
process reengineering, workflow and COOL technologies into client/server
packaged software applications. These technologies add value by automating
business processes and expanding the role of financial software from its
roots in accounting to encompass literally every person and department
enterprise-wide, bringing together all forms and types of information and
automating their movement throughout the organization.

Computron currently markets its products and services through a direct
sales force and indirect channels throughout the world. The company has 17
offices and distributors in 13 countries in North America, Europe, Asia
and Africa.
 
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