AUSTIN, TX – April 05, 2009 - Gensym Corporation (Gensym), a wholly owned subsidiary of Versata Enterprises, Inc. (Versata), announces the release of the Gensym G2 8.4R1 platform. This release demonstrates Gensym’s continued leadership in the demanding discipline of model-driven real time decision management systems.  For more than 20 years, Gensym G2 has been the platform of choice for developing real time solutions to meet the most rigorous demands for stability and performance in the field of manufacturing, communications, government, transportation, aerospace, and finance.

Gensym G2 8.4R1 delivers enhanced features, reliability, and performance to Gensym customers.  “This Gensym release provides dramatic improvements in memory management, performance, scalability, and developer productivity,” said Patrick Nichols, Gensym General Manager.  “This translates directly into lower TCO and greater ROI for our customers.”  Benchmark tests of G2 8.4R1 demonstrate doubled system performance and more efficient memory management by 3x.

“The core G2 product suite is now more scalable, supporting enterprise-scale databases and even larger, more complex scripts,” said Charlie Wiemann, Gensym Account Director.  “Gensym G2 now provides support for up to 2 million characters in the string data type and includes a new Unicode ODBC database bridge to provide full internationalisation support.  This release represents a significant leap forward with enhancements in every major system module.”  G2 8.4R1 also includes enhanced G2 user interface elements, improved modelling capabilities in SymCure and streamlined event definition in Integrity to improve developer efficiency.

Gensym continues to leverage direct customer involvement to deliver Product release contents driven by Gensym’s Customer Success Program and interactive Product Road Map process. These programs ensure rapid product evolution to provide tangible benefits to Gensym customers. 

“The Customer Success Program provides a forum for Gensym customers to define personalized success metrics and measure performance against these metrics to track Gensym’s contribution to their business goals,” said Patrick Nichols, Gensym General Manager.  “This program provides customers with direct access to Gensym executives and measures results with a simple pass / fail grade to ensure alignment with customer goals.”  The Product Road Map process provides the opportunity for Gensym customers to help drive product evolution.  This process ensures that product releases are based on real customer needs rather than perceived value.

“The Customer Success Program and Product Road Map process differentiate us from our competitors by ensuring a close partnership with our customers” said Patrick Nichols.  “Gensym customers are uniquely positioned for success because they define the metrics and actively measure performance.”  Consistent with Gensym’s philosophy of continuous improvement at a rapid pace, the next G2 release is scheduled for May 2009 (8.4r2).

Gensym's comprehensive solutions are available today. For more information, visit: http://www.gensym.com/.

ABOUT GENSYM CORPORATION

Gensym Corporation provides the G2 rules-based modelling suite for mission-critical, real time decision support systems and a variety of services to ensure successful deployment. Gensym's flagship G2 software employs a patented inference engine to provide decision support and process control solutions that detect, diagnose, and resolve costly problems in real time.  The world's largest manufacturers, utilities, communications, transportation, aerospace, finance, and governments use G2 to maximize agility and improve performance. Gensym and its partners deliver a range of services throughout the world, including training, software support, application consulting, and complete custom solutions.

ABOUT VERSATA ENTERPRISES, INC.

With a global presence covering 45 countries, Versata Enterprises solves the most complex business problems for the world's largest organizations. Versata Enterprises comprises a number of leading enterprise solution providers, including Versata, Inc., Gensym Corporation , Artemis International Solutions Corporation, Nextance, Inc., TenFold, Inc. Ecora, and Alter Point, .  Versata distinguishes itself in the software industry by focusing on customer priorities as driven by value delivered.  Versata's market-leading Customer Success Program ensures customer involvement in product decisions and business priorities and provides a semi-annual opportunity for customers to score Versata's performance against commitments.  Versata's world-class engineering capability ensures substantive and valuable product releases, thereby ensuring customer success.  Versata also offers customers the opportunity to leverage Versata's global efficiency by offering a menu of services to help customers lower the cost of technology services across the enterprise.  Versata's relentless focus on customer priorities, coupled with an unmatched global engineering capability, provides Versata customers’ continuous innovation and repeatable value propositions.  Further information is available at http://www.versata.com.