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BEA Systems and BMC Software® Expand Alliance to Unite Business Process Management with Business Service Management NEW YORK - (Oct. 14, 2004) - From its exclusive Business Service Management (BSM) Executive Event, BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE: BMC], a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, and BEA Systems, Inc. [Nasdaq: BEAS], a leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced that the companies have expanded their alliance to create products and services designed to extend BSM solutions and help integrate BMC® Service Impact Manager and BEA Business Process Management (a component of BEA WebLogic Integration™). Together, these solutions will be designed to deliver comprehensive business process management as part of an infrastructure, application, service impact and event management strategy that can help enable customers to manage IT to meet the changing needs of business. The focus of the expanded BMC Software and BEA relationship is to create solutions that can help customers take preemptive action to correct IT problems before they create a business process outage, thus helping them quickly implement BSM solutions. BMC Software's BSM strategy helps enable companies to move beyond traditional IT management to better control their critical services from a business perspective. BSM complements BEA Systems services-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, which can help customers manage services based on business priority. SOA is a standards-based organizational and design methodology that can more closely align IT with business processes by using standard interfaces and shared services on a network. Integration Designed to Unite BPM and BSM "Web-based applications are emerging as a preferred method for delivering new IT-driven business processes. BEA Systems' focus on service-oriented architecture, underscored by its award winning WebLogic and Tuxedo-based solutions, is among the leading platforms for this new paradigm," said Bobby Napiltonia, vice president and general manager, global alliances, BEA Systems. "Because of their importance in delivering IT-driven business processes, maintaining the availability and performance of Web-based applications is critical to business success. This extension of our current alliance with BMC is designed to help customers gain the ability to manage their business processes in coordination with the underlying IT infrastructure that supports those processes. The objective of this integration is to help customers understand the impact of IT events on business processes more easily and to allow system administrators to prioritize their work based on business needs." The integrated solution will be designed to support BMC Software's Infrastructure and Application Management as well as the Service Impact and Event Management Routes to Value (RTVs), two of BMC Software's eight RTVs, which are methods for achieving Business Service Management. BSM solutions provide a consolidated view of business and IT operations, tightly linking IT resources to business objectives and managing those resources based on business priorities. "Through the integration of business process management data from BEA solutions and BMC Service Impact Manager, enterprises can be well positioned to take preemptive action to correct an IT problem before it creates a business process outage and quickly ascertain whether a business process outage is being caused by an IT problem," said Mary Nugent, vice president and general manager, Service Management Solutions, BMC Software. "The integration of BEA application server and transaction processing solutions with BMC Software's Business Service Management solutions will be designed to help customers identify, prioritize and solve those problems that have the highest impact on their business, thus ensuring uninterrupted business operations." About BEA About BMC Software Public Relations Contacts:
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