Business Layers and BMC Software to Provide Schering-Plough with Security Provisioning Solution
CONTROL-SA® from BMC Software and eProvision™ Software from Business Layers Automate Provisioning and Identity Management
ROCHELLE PARK, NJ and HOUSTON, TX - March 10, 2003 -Business Layers, the eProvisioning Company™, and BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE: BMC], a leader in enterprise management, announced today that they will provide Schering-Plough Corporation [NYSE: SGP] with a joint security management solution to automate the provisioning and identity management of employee access to corporate digital resources.
The joint solution combines Business Layers' award-winning eProvisionTM Software, which automates the process of connecting employees to the company's digital resources, with CONTROL-SA® from BMC Software, which delivers effective, comprehensive and enterprise-wide security management across a variety of platforms from a central point of control. Utilizing this joint solution, companies can achieve a consistent, centralized global provisioning process, thereby improving overall system security.
"Federal compliance policies like 21 CFR Part 11 and others regulating the pharmaceutical industry have served as an impetus to revise the way identities and processes are managed," said Avi Zamir, COO of Business Layers. "As strong advocates of provisioning technology, customers understand the immediate benefit of an automated provisioning solution to streamline business processes and provide thorough auditing and reporting capabilities."
According to Steve Hunt, vice president and research leader, security, at Giga Information Group, "The purpose of creating a security architecture is to avoid the "firefighter" culture of IT security, maximize the time and efforts of security staff and ensure that all technical measures actually map to and derive from genuine business requirements." (Giga Information Group Inc. Planning Assumption, Creating a Security Architecture: Introduction, August 2002).
"Our joint solution is the result of a well-established partnership and seamless integration developed with Business Layers. It gives customers a comprehensive, directory-based security management and provisioning solution, while reducing their security management costs," said Steve Lesem, vice president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Security Management, BMC Software. "We are pleased that Schering-Plough has selected CONTROL-SA from BMC Software and eProvision Software from Business Layers as an integrated solution for provisioning and security management."
About Schering-Plough
Schering-Plough Corporation of Kenilworth, N.J., is a research-based company engaged in the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products worldwide.
About BMC Software
BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC], is a leader in enterprise management. The company focuses on Assuring Business Availability® for its customers by helping them proactively improve service, reduce costs and increase value to their business. BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications and databases. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and is a member of the S&P 500, with fiscal year 2002 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion. Visit www.bmc.com to learn more.
About Business Layers
Business Layers is a leading provider of Provisioning solutions, the cornerstone of security and identity management implementations. Business Layers' flagship software product, eProvision, provides an efficient, secure, systematic and scalable system for creating and managing resources for any user, including employees, customers, contractors and business partners.
Business Layers was the first company to define and address the eProvisioning market, and the first to define a provisioning standard. The Business Layers eProvision Alliance™, the broadest alliance program in the provisioning industry, provides the framework to deliver the most comprehensive eProvisioning technology solutions to Business Layers' customers. Winner of the 2002 Network Computing's Editor's Choice Award, the Tornado Insider 100 Award and featured in Computerworld's "Emerging Companies to Watch" list, Business Layer's eProvision Software has been ranked by top analyst firms such as AMR Research and the Radicati Group as the #1 provisioning technology on the market today.
Business Layers is a privately held company funded by leading international investors including Canaan Partners, Ascent Venture Partners, Novell Inc., Gemini Israel Funds, Formula Ventures, Israel Seed Partners and Garage Technology Ventures. For more information, please contact Business Layers at 877-552-9377, or visit www.businesslayers.com
eProvisioning Company and eProvision are trademarks of Business Layers Inc. BMC Software, the BMC Software logos, and all other BMC Software product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. Any other marks used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of the manufacturers or marketers of the products with which the marks are associated.
Company Contacts:
Sharon Tolpin
Director, Corporate Communications
(201) 291-8999, ext. 218
sharon.tolpin@businesslayers.com
Heather Real
BMC Software
713-918-1649
heather_real@bmc.com
