BMC Software Delivers Advanced Business Integrated Scheduling for SAP Business Information Warehouse-Based Environments

CONTROL-M Provides Increased Control and Management of SAP BW-Based Environments with Enhanced Scheduling Capabilities

Editor's Summary: BMC Software today announced: Its market-leading CONTROL-M business integrated scheduling solution for SAP® solutions now supports SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW). With this announcement, BMC Software's CONTROL-M extends its support for SAP solutions across the broadest range of SAP applications, including the Computer Center Management System (CCMS) of the SAP Basis Release 4.6 system, data archiving, and now SAP BW.

LAS VEGAS - (September 9, 2003) - BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE: BMC], a leading provider of enterprise management, today announced that its CONTROL-M business integrated scheduling solution now supports the SAP® Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) solution. CONTROL-M helps ensure the availability and reliability of SAP solution-based environments by integrating and managing the entire enterprise - proactively resolving issues before they impact the business financially. With this announcement, BMC Software's CONTROL-M extends its support for SAP solutions across a broad range of SAP applications, including the Computer Center Management System (CCMS) of the SAP Basis Release 4.6 system, data archiving, and now SAP BW.

"SAP solutions play a critical role in providing our customers with the best possible service," said Jack Cunningham, ESM Group Leader, Rohm and Haas. "Our success relies on keeping SAP solutions running at an optimum level without any interruption, and using CONTROL-M we are able to further manage this critical business application. CONTROL-M enables us to efficiently and automatically integrate our SAP batch processes, within and outside the SAP solution-based environment, in a timely and efficient manner. With this announcement, we are pleased to see that BMC is extending CONTROL-M's support of SAP solutions to provide even greater value. Complete management of jobs created in our SAP BW-based environment through CONTROL-M would enable us to integrate our SAP BW batch processes as part of our entire business process."

SAP BW, a component of mySAP^TM Business Intelligence, closes the loop between business processes and decision-support by providing a data-warehousing platform that ensures the integration of data from all enterprise data sources, as well as a robust suite of business intelligence tools. With its advanced scheduling capabilities, CONTROL-M helps SAP BW users achieve a unified business flow by tightly integrating SAP BW batch processes with the batch processes running on other SAP applications as well as other environments. Moreover, CONTROL-M offers extended management and monitoring capabilities for SAP BW processes - providing users greater flexibility when designing integrated process flows. Additionally, as part of BMC Software's Business Service Management (BSM) strategy, which seeks to link IT resources tightly to business objectives, CONTROL-M enables SAP customers to understand the business impact of any SAP BW scheduling issues and deliver the quality of service required for this business-critical application.

"CONTROL-M is the strongest SAP dedicated third-party business integrated scheduler on the market," said Calvin Guidry, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Systems Management at BMC Software. "Its unique solution for SAP BW represents another step forward in the constant expansion of CONTROL-M's support of SAP solutions and reaffirms BMC Software's commitment to customers of SAP solutions."

As a market-leading third-party job scheduling solution for SAP solutions, CONTROL-M maximizes business process automation and enables unified, manageable SAP business processes. BMC Software is an SAP Global Software Partner. Leveraging its close relationship with SAP, BMC Software continuously provides the latest, most advanced scheduling capabilities for SAP solution-based environments.

About CONTROL-M® Business Integrated Scheduling
BMC Software's CONTROL-M solution was ranked as a leader in Cross-Platform Job-Scheduling by Gartner, Inc., according to its Magic Quadrant research note.¹ The solution provides advanced scheduling capabilities across the enterprise. It integrates batch processes running on diverse systems into a unified, manageable business process. Moreover, CONTROL-M offers a focal point of management for the entire business flow, thus enabling efficient problem detection and resolution. Its innovative architecture helps organizations meet business goals by addressing reliability, availability and scalability requirements. The solution is driven by business requirements to ensure business success.

About BMC Software
BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC], is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2003 revenues of more than $1.3 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit www.bmc.com.

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