BMC Software Extends Identity Management Security Suite

Editor's Summary: BMC Software today announced: It has worked with Business Layers to offer customers an identity management solution that incorporates technology developed by Business Layers. The new solution offers enterprise customers improved IT operational efficiencies for global organizations and increased ROI of security implementations.

HOUSTON - (Nov. 20, 2003) - BMC Software, Inc., [NYSE: BMC], a leader in enterprise management, today announced that it will be introducing an additional component to its identity management offering that incorporates technology developed by Business Layers. This new offering, named CONTROL-SA®/eProvision™ by Business Layers, sold by BMC Software through its MarketZone partner products program, combines Business Layers' eProvision technology with BMC Software's CONTROL-SA suite of products. When coupled with the existing CONTROL-SA products, the new offering creates a powerful identity management solution that improves IT operational efficiencies for global organizations and increases the ROI of security implementations.

In today's highly complex and diverse enterprises organizations face numerous challenges when assigning and managing access to the organization's business-critical applications. If managed incorrectly, an organization jeopardizes its security while unnecessarily expending valuable time and resources. In an effort to help global organizations address these challenges and provide maximum efficiency and reliability, the CONTROL-SA suite offers organizations a complete solution that addresses all aspects of provisioning, including facilitating business changes such as employee hires, transfers and removals, while offering key functionality like workflow, delegated administration, IT automation and complete business-oriented auditing. Furthermore, this new solution supports BMC Software's Business Service Management (BSM) initiative by assuring increased access to business services, applications and related data.

"The combined BMC/Business Layers provisioning solution combines the best technologies from two recognized industry leaders in security management," said the SIPS project team at Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals. "For large, diverse IT infrastructures, the provisioning and workflow processes can be very complex and time consuming. The combined BMC/Business Layers solution will help alleviate these management challenges and help streamline the provisioning and identity management process."

"Customers are seeking a comprehensive provisioning solution to effectively manage their increasingly complex environments. Having both multi-level workflow and strong application integration capabilities are essential components of a user provisioning product," says Roberta Witty, Research Director at Gartner, Inc.

With today's announcement, the enhanced CONTROL-SA suite offers users the industry's most comprehensive policy-driven provisioning solution. New capabilities delivered include:

• A dynamic rule-based workflow engine
• Delegated user administration
• Self-services user registration
• Direct LDAP management
• Comprehensive password management capabilities
• Extensive business-oriented auditing and reporting

"In the current environment, customers are looking for suites from proven and experienced security vendors," said Somesh Singh, vice president and general manager, Security Business Unit, BMC Software. "With this new product offering, BMC is combining over a decade worth of experience in building and deploying identity management solutions for complex organizations with state-of-the-art technology. Customers will find that BMC has the most complete identity management solution in the marketplace."

"We are very excited to provide BMC with the market's leading provisioning technology as part of their end-to-end identity management suite," said Izhar Shay, president & CEO of Business Layers. "BMC and Business Layers have already successfully sold integrated identity management solutions to leading enterprises like Schering-Plough and the German Railway. This new offering offers even tighter integration into a single vendor solution that uses best-of-breed technology."

Availability and Pricing
CONTROL-SA/eProvision™ by Business Layers will be available worldwide in December 2003 from BMC Software. Pricing will begin at $78,000 for 1,000 users.

About CONTROL-SA
A centralized user provisioning product, CONTROL-SA allows security administrators to centrally manage and audit user access effectively. CONTROL-SA provides organizations with a secure, efficient and scaleable solution to ensure that employees and business partners have appropriate access to IT resources. For more information on CONTROL-SA visit http://www.bmc.com/solutions/security/.

About Business Service Management
BSM is BMC Software's approach for enabling companies to manage their IT infrastructure and services from a business perspective. BSM enables companies to understand and predict the impact of technology changes on the business, and conversely, how changes in the business impact IT, resulting in improved customer service and business performance. For additional information on BSM, visit www.bmc.com/bsm.

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.

Public Relations Contacts:
Eric Krueger
BMC Software
713-918-2153
eric_krueger@bmc.com

Sharon Tolpin
Business Layers
201-291-8999
sharon.tolpin@businesslayers.com