Addressing Emerging Needs for Comprehensive Asset Management, Tangram Is
First to Offer an Automated Enterprise-wide Solution

RALEIGH, N.C., October 9, 1995 -- For companies under pressure to leverage
IT assets, make better informed purchasing decisions and provide more
efficient PC support, Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc. now offers a
solution that allows quick and automatic enterprise-wide asset management.
The solution inventories and tracks hardware, software and other assets to
provide complete and current information to decision makers across the
enterprise.

Tangram's asset management solution, available this month, automatically
inventories an organization's IT assets and compiles the asset information
in an open database. The inventories for workstations and servers can be
scheduled to run as frequently as desired without any human intervention.
Users throughout the organization can query the asset database with an
easy-to-use graphical interface or standard SQL query tools to receive
up-to-the-minute inventory information whenever needed.

This comprehensive approach to asset management enables multiple
departments to leverage a common repository of data. "Now Finance,
Operations and the Help Desk can benefit from our centralized approach to
asset management," said Steven F. Kuekes, vice president of technology,
Tangram. "Our asset management solution allows Finance to generate
complete, accurate reports whenever needed, Operations to know what is
installed in all departments, and the Help Desk to determine the
configuration of any workstation in the network--automatically."

Companies moving to distributed computing environments are finding that
they need to know more about their hardware and software to make decisions
regarding retirements, upgrades and migrations. "To effectively determine
the potential cost for an application rollout or upgrade in our
client/server environment, we must have detailed client information," said
Gary Schultz, senior systems specialist, The Progressive Corporation.
"Right now we use a purely manual process, and we think that automating
this process will be extremely beneficial. Tangram's new asset management
solution would allow us to automatically obtain the information that our
application development managers need before they deploy mission-critical
applications."

Since assets are constantly changing, Tangram's unique solution features a
modular inventory mechanism that can be easily extended to find new asset
data as the organization grows and as software and hardware technology
evolves. Based on an open, relational Oracle database that automatically
accommodates new assets, the common data repository enables users to add
custom data to the database and to integrate off-the-shelf database tools
easily.

Tangram's enterprise asset management solution will be available October
31, 1995, in standalone and integrated versions. Tangram Enterprise Asset
Inventory, the standalone product, starts at $37, 500 for 500 clients, and
Tangram Enterprise Asset Manager, the integrated product, starts at
$75,000 for 500 clients.

For more than a decade, Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (OTC:TESI) has
provided distributed resource management and connectivity solutions for
major organizations throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and
Australia. Tangram's product lines support the leading, industry-standard
client/server and local area network environments, including OS/2,
Macintosh, DOS, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95, NetWare, UNIX and MVS, as
well as a myriad of connectivity options such as APPC, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX,
NetBIOS, SDLC, X.25 and asynchronous communications. Tangram is a member
of the Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. partnership of companies.
 
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