BMC Software Receives Award for Financial IT Product and Solution Recommendation

BMC Service Automation and BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management recognized for industry excellence

BEIJING, China, December 22, 2009 - China ComputerWorld Media Group’s New Finance World magazine named BMC Software’s (NASDAQ: BMC) BMC Service Automation and BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management recipients of the 2009 Financial Information Technology (IT) Product and Solution Recommendation Annual Award.

As an authoritative publication guiding China’s finance industry, New Finance World’s annual recommendation awards honor enterprises and products based on the enterprise’s comprehensive strength, industry influence, customer satisfaction, depth of product functionality, quality, stability and after-sale services. BMC’s win indicates the industry’s and customers’ profound trust and recognition of BMC products and services, and further showcases BMC’s advanced leadership in the IT management.

BMC, the leading pioneer of Business Service Management (BSM), has been growing in the China market for years. The company offers simplified and automated IT management solutions, including BMC Atrium CMDB, BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management and BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite to major industrial sectors such as finance, telecom, government and manufacturing. In 2009, BMC continued the evolution of IT management with dynamic BSM, further enabling proactive business service management in increasingly virtualized and complicated cloud computing environments. Today, large financial institutions in China, including the Bank of China, the China Construction Bank, the Bank of Communications and the Bank of East Asia depend on BMC to address with the challenges they face in complex IT environments.

“We are honored to be selected for these awards,” said Steve Su, BMC’s country manager for the North Pacific Rim, “We will take advantage of our leadership in IT management and insight into future trends to continuously innovate and introduce leading products for the China market.”

BMC has successfully deployed IT service management solutions for many leading financial institutions worldwide, including:

BMC Atrium CMDB, BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management, BMC Event and Impact Management and BMC Remedy Service Desk for the Bank of East Asia, to enhance the relevance of IT for business so as to satisfy the ever-changing market requirements.
BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite for the Bank of Communications, to increase operational efficiently and usability at the data center.
BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager for Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), to manage the rollout of software changes.
BMC BladeLogic Client Automation, BMC Foundation Discovery and BMC Topology Discover for Trustmark National Bank, to protect sensitive customer information.
BMC Atrium Orchestrator, BMC Performance Manager, BMC Event Manager and BMC Service Impact Manager for BT Financial Group, to drive down costs and significantly reduce the number and duration of manual and repetitive tasks in infrastructure support and maintenance.

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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 both distributed and mainframe environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC provides a comprehensive and unified platform that helps IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2009, BMC revenue was approximately $1.88 billion.

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