Application integration remains a top concern for today's CIOs. To meet the integration challenge, companies have deployed Web services, many of which take advantage of existing infrastructure but in new and different ways. Adoption of Web services is a gradual process. Many deployments started by targeting Intranet applications before extending beyond the enterprise to external partners or customers for the purpose of minimizing new management challenges, not the least of which are security and integrity of services. Since its inception, BMC Software's mission has centered on the simplification of complex, heterogeneous, and widely distributed systems. BMC Software manages the key infrastructure components to ensure Web services are available and performing optimally. For example, BMC Software business partners such as IBM with WebSphere and BEA Systems with WebLogic are including Web services development and deployment capabilities in their products. BMC Performance Manager for Web Application Servers assure the availability of these environments. BMC Software is working with Siebel Systems' Universal Application Network initiative and webMethods to manage and interoperate with their Web services offerings with BMC Performance Manager for Siebel eBusiness Applications and BMC Performance Manager for webMethods. BMC Software provides the following management solutions to address the needs of companies deploying Web Services: BMC MAINVIEW for WebSphere Application Server provides Web monitoring and management for applications integrated with IBM's WebSphere Application Server, offers improved availability, recoverability, and service, and helps you determine how well your end users are being serviced. BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers provides built-in expertise and automated administrative control for Web-based applications without compromising security. It monitors and manages Internet servers, ensuring greater availability for mission-critical Internet applications. It also detects problems, optimizes your systems, analyzes trends and plans capacity, managing multiple local and remote systems simultaneously. When problems do occur, this product performs root cause analysis to help you quickly pinpoint and resolve issues, ensuring your Internet sites run efficiently 24 hours a day. BMC Performance Manager for Servers provides an extensible, scalable, and easily customizable systems management solution for Windows, Unix, and Linux operating system environments, and allows you to manage the health and performance of operating system environments and applications. BMC Performance Manager for Web Application Servers ensures high availability and performance of BEA WebLogic Server Web-based systems by monitoring and managing resources, identifying less than optimal application and server performance, and providing the capability to take corrective action. Companies are using Web services today to integrate disparate systems and applications. BMC Software solutions enable our customers to assure component service performance and availability as they deploy applications and business processes across organizational and technical boundaries. BMC Performance Manager's response time management solutions help you understand the performance and service levels of Web services business processes. BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers ensures your Web services SOAP servers are available and that SOAP message content is accurate.