BMC Software Delivers PeopleSoft® Certified Software Integration

PATROL^® Solution Automates Application Management and Optimizes PeopleSoft Application Performance Across Heterogeneous Environments

Editor's Summary: BMC Software today announced: PATROL for PeopleSoft has achieved certification for their integration with PeopleSoft Version 8.4. PATROL for PeopleSoft management solutions allow customers to manage their PeopleSoft environment from a business perspective.

HOUSTON - (November 12, 2003) - BMC Software, Inc., (NYSE: BMC), a leader in enterprise management, today announced that PATROL® for PeopleSoft has achieved certification for its integration with PeopleSoft Version 8.4. As a result, customers can benefit from end-to-end PeopleSoft management that enables them to view their entire IT infrastructure based on which goals are most important to their business.

PATROL for PeopleSoft delivers centralized monitoring and management of business transactions to help ensure optimal performance and availability. By discovering problems in real-time and resolving them before they affect the business service, PATROL for PeopleSoft customers minimize downtime and reduce problem identification and resolution time. PATROL for PeopleSoft also provides centralized management of PeopleSoft users, transactions and processes, which allows IT to align their system resources with their business goals. PATROL for PeopleSoft offers a single management view of PeopleSoft applications, databases and operating systems as well as diagnosis methodologies and corrective actions that ensure the continuity of business services.

"PeopleSoft customers, which include Fortune 500 companies, middle-market enterprises, educational and governmental institutions, cannot afford down time, especially with their business critical applications," said Joel Heinke, PeopleTools Product Strategy, PeopleSoft. "BMC Software provides very reliable monitoring and application management tools that offer our joint customers the potential of greater value from their PeopleSoft investment."

"BMC's customers consider PeopleSoft to be critical to their bottom-line, so it makes sense that they would use the PATROL management solution to keep it running at peak performance," said Mary Smars, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Systems Management, BMC Software. "Through a seamless integration between PATROL and the PeopleSoft environment, PATROL for PeopleSoft allows customers to maximize the value of their PeopleSoft implementation while reducing management costs and achieving a faster return on their investment".

BMC Software works closely with PeopleSoft to ensure that its products are not only compatible, but also leverage new technologies introduced. The two companies work together to create a more reliable and responsive computing environment, while enabling optimal performance of business processes. BMC Software was the first software vendor to attain PeopleSoft certification for a system management interface to the PeopleSoft environment and is a PeopleSoft Certified Software Partner.

About BMC Software
BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC], is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage IT 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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