SAN RAMON, Calif., February 4, 2000 -- Avatier Corporation (Avatier.), a global leader in solutions to simplify enterprise network administration, today announced that the premier financial services firm, A.G. Edwards, has chosen Trusted Enterprise Manager 3.0 to help secure and simplify their Windows NT network.

TEM 3.0 is a revolutionary enterprise management product for the Windows NT/2000 platform that combines a powerful Windows NT/2000 administration solution with a familiar, intuitive graphical user interface. TEM enables task automation, centralized reporting and auditing, and secure delegation of permissions to "Trusted Managers" across the enterprise, greatly simplifying network administration.

"Avatier is pleased to add A.G. Edwards to our long list of TEM customers" stated David Matthiesen, director of business development for Avatier. "Trusted Enterprise Manager has been the preferred NT management solution for many of the top financial companies in the world, and we are excited to be able to help A.G. Edwards solve their administration issues."

About Trusted Enterprise Manager Trusted Enterprise Manager (TEM) is the leading standards-based Windows NT and Windows 2000 administration solution on the market today, allowing distributed enterprises to increase the quality of their IT service levels, decrease internal security exposure, and dramatically lower their Total Cost of Ownership. TEM is an innovative and powerful solution that simplifies and enhances the management of Windows 2000. TEM allows administrators to perform managed, auditable, delegation of any combination of over 25 specific network permissions to "Trusted Managers" across the organization. This granular control of permissions allows the administrator to safely offload day-to-day tasks such as resetting passwords or creating Terminal Server profiles, without giving away the "keys to the kingdom" and jeopardizing network security. TEM also incorporates timesaving administration features such as drag and drop functionality, task automation and centralized reporting and auditing, all in an intuitive, easy to use graphical user interface.