Composite Software Selected by BMC Software for OEM Relationship; Embedded Enterprise Information Integration Capabilities Will Extend Federation, Virtualization for Business Service Management

Business Wire, August 22, 2005

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Composite Software, the Enterprise Information Integration (EII) leader, announced today that BMC Software(R) has licensed the Composite Information Server(TM) for incorporation into BMC Software products, including BMC(R) Performance Manager and BMC Atrium(TM). The announcement marks another significant OEM relationship for Composite Software and underscores the broad applicability of EII.

BMC Software products help businesses align IT operations to directly support critical business objectives, a strategy known as Business Service Management (BSM). The relationship with Composite will benefit BMC Software customers by improving their visibility and performance in large-scale environments. Complex organizations face a landscape of disparate technology, internal and outsourced, across geographies and business units, assembled over time. Effective BSM requires a consolidated, real-time view across this entire landscape for planning, reporting, impact analysis and end-user service delivery.

"As a leader in its market, BMC already supports a distributed data model for the Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB)," said Wister Walcott, vice president of Marketing for Composite Software. "Composite provides the next generation of federation technology to extend reporting and dashboard capabilities and to enable live connectivity to configuration information outside of BMC."

"With Composite, BMC will be the only enterprise management company with built-in, standards-based federation," said Sean Duclaux, director of Product Management at BMC Software. "This will extend our rich planning and reporting capabilities in distributed deployments. In addition, Composite's speed and its compact, efficient footprint will mesh well with BMC Software products."

About Composite Software

Composite Software is the acknowledged leader in Enterprise Information Integration (EII) solutions. EII reaches across multiple different sources on-demand to provide up-to-date, comprehensive views of critical business information. For more information, please visit www.compositesw.com.

Composite Software and Composite Information Server are registered trademarks or trademarks of Composite Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. Copyright (C) Composite Software, Inc. 2005.