BMC Software Middleware Management Solutions Give Customers Insight Into the Performance of Applications Across the Enterprise

HOUSTON, August 15, 2011 – BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) today announced a new set of Middleware Management solutions that help customers monitor and manage middleware across the contemporary data center, enabling IT departments to deliver reliable business services through a more in-depth view of enterprise applications and the transaction paths that make them run.

As enterprise IT systems grow to include multiple components that span the contemporary data center, the ability to see and manage all pieces of data and transactions that business applications use is crucial. Through these new products, BMC Software gives organizations the necessary insights into the applications that power their businesses.

The new solutions offer the ability to:

Take an in-depth view into application flow paths to clearly understand how a transaction flows across an application;
Manage middleware in public, private or hybrid cloud environments;
Proactively analyze and identify middleware and application problems before they happen; and
Support the IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® Integration Appliance.

Viewing Enterprise Applications From End to End

With BMC’s new Middleware Management solutions and features, including integration with BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management solution, end-to-end transaction tracing and more, customers have a full, end-to-end view of applications and transactions in their IT environment whether they are using a mainframe, distributed system or hybrid data center.

“Enterprises need to make sure that business critical applications are performing effectively and most important efficiently. Since the execution paths of today’s multi-tiered applications cross the boundaries and exercise the resources of numerous systems in the modern day IT department, the middleware management layer is crucial,” said Will Cappelli, research vice president, Gartner. “To make sure that business applications running on or across mainframe, cloud and distributed systems perform well, businesses need a robust set of multi-dimensional middleware management solutions that address the monitoring, management and problem resolution involved with middleware and application performance.”

Supporting The Hybrid Data Center

Businesses are more reliant upon critical applications that access data across cloud, virtual, mainframe and distributed environments. It’s crucial that all layers of the application and middleware services be managed to ensure the operational efficiency that satisfies business service delivery.

BMC’s Middleware Management solutions are cloud-ready and can be implemented to help monitor middleware in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment, giving the comprehensive insight needed to ensure application performance in a hybrid data center.

Predicting Application Problems Before They Happen

BMC understands that monitoring application performance throughout the data center is important for business and IT efficiency. But having the ability to proactively predict slowdowns in transactions and applications is something that IT organizations must have to keep costs down and applications running.

By integrating BMC Middleware Management into the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management solution customers can now proactively monitor the path of transactions and identify problems that affect the application and business service. With the ability to baseline the behavior of applications and IT infrastructure, the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management solution automatically pinpoints the cause of problems in an application or transaction path before they occur. When a potential problem is found, the solution initiates standard problem triage and resolution processes to solve the issue without requiring staff involvement.

With support for transaction tracing, customers have the advantage of extensive diagnostic capabilities for the complex enterprise application architecture that moves application data from distributed systems through the mainframe. With support for all major IT computing platforms, customers have the most comprehensive support by the Middleware Management solutions.

Providing Strong Industry Support

By supporting the IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® Integration Appliance, BMC Middleware Management gives customers the most comprehensive set of Middleware Management solutions and the unique ability tomanage both middleware software and hardware as companies continue to evolve their middleware infrastructure and determine the best fit for their IT environments.

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Business Runs on IT. IT Runs on BMC Software.

Business thrives when IT runs smarter, faster and stronger. That’s why the most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC offers a comprehensive approach and unified platform that helps IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended June 30, 2011, BMC revenue was approximately $2.1 billion.

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