New BMC Software Products and Partners Deliver Next Wave of Enterprise Business Productivity Solutions Through ASA

Business Wire, Oct 6, 1998

Company's Innovative Approach Reshapes How Customers and

Competition View Enterprise Application Management

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1998--At a press conference held today on board the Odyssey cruise ship, BMC Software (Nasdaq:BMCS) and its strategic partners delivered the next wave of enterprise management products and partnerships that give global information technology organizations a new level of enhanced business productivity through Application Service Assurance (ASA(TM)). Unveiled today was a powerful new lineup of products and solutions including the enterprise-wide integration of legacy and new applications, enablement of near real-time data warehousing and the industry's first application-level recovery across the enterprise. In addition, several blue-chip technology partners and resellers rallied around BMC Software with announcements of new relationships that further extend the reach and value of ASA. ASA is the industry's first innovative approach to dramatically enhance the availability, performance and recovery of business-critical applications.

"Continental Airlines uses data to decide whether or not an airplane flies, whether or not it needs maintenance and if it is at a gate and needs a part," said Hulon Cox, senior information specialist with EDS Corporation for Continental Airlines. "These people need to be able to make these decisions real-time. If planes are waiting at the gates, we cannot wait. We need the information now. We must make our decisions now."

BMC Software's unrivaled expertise gained in solving complex problems across the enterprise uniquely positions the company to help information technology organizations focus on the service provided to users -- ensuring that business-critical applications remain available, perform optimally and can be quickly and completely recovered at any point in time.

"The promise of Application Service Assurance to facilitate uninterrupted business continuity is a reality today and BMC Software is the only vendor able to deliver it across mainframe and distributed systems," said Max Watson, BMC Software chairman, president and CEO as he addressed customers, press and industry analysts today. "With the solutions, products and partnerships disclosed today, we are continuing to deliver on that promise."

New Solution for Integrating Applications and Enabling Near Real-Time Data Warehousing

Ensuring application availability depends on the availability, quality, currency and integrity of data. BMC Software's Enterprise Data Propagation (EDP) strategy, announced today, provides customers with the right data at the right place at the right time -- enabling application integration and near real-time data warehousing. EDP integrates, coordinates and manages the movement of bulk data, change data, and schema across the enterprise and is ideal for customers with very large databases, high transaction rates and 24x7 availability requirements.

Until today, large-scale IT organizations had no way to easily integrate business-critical legacy data with the explosive rise of new data in distributed systems environments. With today's announcement, BMC Software gives these organizations the ability to capitalize on and exploit the growing demand for rapid application integration and near-real time data warehousing efficiently and effectively.

"As mission-critical applications on SQL Server 7.0 become prevalent, we recognize the need to integrate existing data from IMS, VSAM, and DB2(a)," said Microsoft's vice president of distributed applications, David Vaskevitch. "We recognize the value that BMC Software provides through their Data Propagation solution, providing near real-time change propagation to our customers through products like ChangeDataMove."

Support of leading hardware and software companies, as well as system integrators, is a key aspect of BMC Software's EDP strategy and strengthens the warehouse solution. Relationships exist today with Microsoft, EMC Corp., Oracle, Amdahl, EDS and PricewaterhouseCoopers. New relationships with Informatica, Pine Cone Systems, Constellar and D2K were also disclosed. See separate releases for more detail on the strategy, products and partnerships.

First to Deliver Application-Level Recovery Products to the Market

With another ASA release announced separately today, BMC Software becomes the first vendor to deliver application-level recovery products to the market. BMC Software recovery solutions address logical, software and hardware errors through the automated and prioritized recovery of critical business applications. The company's solutions provide application recoveries across databases and file systems within key applications.

BMC Software's recovery vision includes partnering with industry leaders to expand the functionality of its products across the enterprise. BMC Software will soon unveil a new strategic partnership with IBM(a)/ADSM to provide the functionality of BMC Software's recovery solutions to the distributed world. In the partnership, IBM's ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager (ADSM) unit will be reselling BMC Software's SQL-BackTrack(TM) recovery product for open systems. See separate release issued today for more detail.