Danske Bank selects Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder for Business Critical Software
Black Box Flight Recorders will be integrated throughout Europe
with one of the bank's major inter-banking applications.
Or-Yehuda, Israel, March 20, 2001 --- Mutek Solutions, Ltd., a leading provider of software solutions that improve the availability and reliability of business-critical applications, announces that Danske Bank has selected Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder software solution to maximize the availability of one of its major inter-banking applications that is used by the bank and its financial partners around Europe. The bank will also standardize on the usage of Mutek's Black Box solutions for the development and testing of its Windows based applications.

Black Box Flight Recorders for Business Critical Applications
Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder for software operates like a flight recorder for business critical applications on servers and clients. With no modifications required to the applications or the system, the Software Black Box Flight Recorder transparently records the online operation of applications and delivers alerts before failures occur. Application activity is recorded at multiple levels, from the user's experience, through the system level operations and down to the program's code lines executed by the running process. In case of crashes or other errors, system management, help desk and development personnel access the Black Box through the network, playback the failed scenario and pinpoint the root cause of the problem. Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder solutions include Black Boxes for servers and clients, with front-end consoles for configuration, problem pinpointing, analysis, and Black Box management.

"The next version of our Office Banking product will use Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder solution to catch bugs in various software environments at customer sites," says Ebbe Skak Larsen, Chief Software Architect at Danske Bank. "With Mutek's Black Box solutions we are now able to capture bugs at any point of the application's execution and obtain complete and detailed debugging data to be analyzed by our support staff. By using Mutek's BugTrapper and Black Boxes during the testing phase, we have already been able to solve several problems in just a few hours which would have taken several days or even weeks to find and solve without Mutek's solution. If a customer experiences problems with our application, a rapid response is vital to maintain customer satisfaction. By using Mutek's product we are able to decrease the response time drastically", added Ebbe Skak Larsen.

"The availability and reliability of business critical software has become a major concern of companies around the world and the financial world is putting a special emphasis on high availability systems," said Yochi Slonim, President and CEO, Mutek Solutions. "We are proud that Danske Bank, one of the most respected banking institutions in Europe, has selected our software to enhance the availability of their applications."

About Danske Bank
Danske Bank is the largest bank in Denmark and a leading player in the Scandinavian financial markets. Danske Bank maintains a prime financial position in northern Europe and throughout the world's major financial centers. Danske Bank Group, which encompasses Danske Bank, BG Bank, Realkredit Denmark and a number of subsidiaries, offers a wide range of financial services, including insurance, mortgage finance, asset management, brokerage, credit card, real estate and leasing services. Additional information on Danske Bank is available at http://www.danskebank.com.

About Mutek Solutions Ltd.
Mutek Solutions, Ltd. develops and markets software solutions that improve the availability of business critical software applications. The company's Black Box Flight Recorder for Software Applications provides online alerts prior to system failures, records and plays back software malfunctions, and pinpoints the root cause of software malfunctions in server and desktop applications. Mutek's customers include e-business and traditional blue chip companies in the computer and software industry, financial services, telecom and cellular operators, manufacturing and industrial companies. Mutek Solutions is headquartered in Or-Yehuda, Israel. The company markets and supports its products in the US, Europe and rest of the world through its sales offices and distributors. For additional information, visit http://www.mutek.com.

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For additional information, visit http://www.mutek.com, or contact:
Americas:
Larry Heathcote
lheathcote@us.mutek.com 919-878-3717 ext 256
Danske Bank:
Ebbe-Skak Larsen, ebla@danskebank.dk
+45-8935-3000
Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific:
Marius Wolff
marius@mutek.com +972-3-538-40-15