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BMC Software Significantly Advances Distributed Systems Management Offerings With Introduction of BMC Performance Manager, the Next Generation of PATROL(R) BMC Performance Manager Portal, the First in a Series of Releases, Streamlines Systems Management by Providing a Holistic View HOUSTON, May 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE:BMC), a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, today expanded its commitment to the PATROL product line by announcing BMC Performance Manager, the next generation of PATROL. An innovative end-to-end systems management solution, BMC Performance Manager provides the functionality required to diagnose complex problems while being simple to deploy, install and use, enabling companies to improve business performance, optimize system resources and reduce costs by shifting focus from maintenance and operations to more value-added tasks. Available now, BMC Performance Manager delivers immediate benefits and long-term investment protection for new and existing PATROL users. BMC Performance Manager supports the Infrastructure and Application Management Route-To-Value, the foundation of BMC Software's Business Service Management (BSM) strategy. Bob Beauchamp, president and CEO, BMC Software said, "This announcement is a significant milestone in our BSM strategy and builds on our proven expertise and years of innovation. The systems management market has evolved, with basic monitoring capabilities reaching maturity and customers demanding more intuitive, high-value solutions. BMC Performance Manager is an architectural evolution driven by customers that reaffirms our commitment to our large user community, reinvigorates our systems management product portfolio, and enhances our competitive advantage." BMC Performance Manager Provides a Single View The first BMC Performance Manager release, BMC Performance Manager Portal, available today, is a Web-based unified management console that includes the BMC Impact Portal. The BMC Performance Manager Portal provides a visual integration between PATROL, PATROL Express, and BMC Service Impact Manager, giving users a holistic view of their IT infrastructure. This integration demonstrates BMC Software's commitment towards unifying consoles across solutions through BMC Atrium View, part of the BMC Atrium technology strategy for enabling BSM. By consolidating reporting and notification and allowing users to easily switch between infrastructure and business views, BMC Performance Manager Portal enables customers to more readily identify issues and fix them before there is any impact on their business. "The BMC Performance Manager Portal allows us to see critical infrastructure management information in a single pane of glass. This makes it easy for administrators to monitor multiple BMC Software solutions quickly and efficiently in one easy-to-read dashboard," said Jeremy Faircloth, Applications Administration manager, EchoStar Communications Corporation. "The ability to personalize our dashboard with the information that is most critical to our business allows us to focus on those areas that are important to our customers instead of a myriad of alerts on non-critical issues." Reaffirming BMC Software's commitment to the large and growing PATROL user community, BMC Performance Manager Portal has been designed to allow complete operational compatibility with previous versions of PATROL, PATROL Knowledge Modules, PATROL Express, and BMC Service Impact Manager under a unified single view. By eliminating the requirement for multiple consoles for environments utilizing several generations of PATROL technology, BMC Performance Manager Portal greatly simplifies the management of large, complex computing environments. This capability, coupled with the portal technology, delivers customizable user views that incorporate additional information from other management tools, enterprise applications, and web sources into extensible business dashboards. Also with this delivery, BMC Software has enhanced PATROL Express with expanded support for applications including Apache Web Server, Compaq Insight Manager, Dell OpenManage, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss and SAP in addition to providing support for monitoring via SNMP traps and Telnet. Other new features in this release include customizable monitoring via secure shell commands or JMX, improved reporting and alerting capabilities, and more flexibility in supporting multiple users. BMC Performance Manager Delivers a Single License BMC Performance Manager solutions will be rolled out globally in June via a consolidated license structure that combines both PATROL and PATROL Express technologies together in a single offering. This single license structure provides transferability between platform and function, allowing users to choose which technology to exploit on what platform and make adjustments as their business needs change. As a result, users have their management capabilities delivered within a single simplified license. By combining a single license structure with the single view provided by BMC Performance Manager Portal, users gain a double benefit: streamlined system management operations and the ability to flexibly deploy the appropriate level of management technology to adapt to changing business needs. BMC Performance Manager Exploits a Single Architecture An integrated solution that combines the robustness of agent-based PATROL classic with the ease of use and simplicity of agent-less PATROL Express, BMC Performance Manager significantly reduces the total cost of systems management ownership while improving system performance through flexibility that enables the technology to grow and change with business needs. This innovative management approach utilizes a policy-based deployment mechanism that automatically employs the appropriate level of management technology based on a user's goals. The inherent intelligence removes the requirement for an IT manager to decide which management technology to deploy, agent-based or agent-less, allowing them to shift their focus to the desired outcome instead, a basic tenet of BSM. This business-focused approach leverages proven technology to eliminate deployment issues, simplify administration, and reduce the infrastructure required to deliver the robust and flexible functionality necessary to manage large, complex heterogeneous environments. The consolidated packages available now form the basis for ongoing value and functionality that will be delivered to PATROL and PATROL Express users. Upcoming BMC Performance Manager releases planned for delivery in calendar 2005 will enhance integration with partner solutions and third-party management solutions. Additional releases combining PATROL and PATROL Express technologies into a single integrated architecture will expand diagnostic and recovery capabilities while continuing to reduce up-front configuration and deployment costs. "IT managers today are forced to choose between two disparate technologies when evaluating systems management solutions -- those that provide lightweight monitoring only and are simple to administer -- or those that deliver robust management but require additional time and resources to operate. These decisions lock an IT organization into a specific technology that does not grow with their business or change with their business needs," said Mary Smars, vice president and general manager, Distributed Systems Management, BMC Software. "BMC Performance Manager changes this paradigm by combining agent-less and agent-based technologies together to enable streamlined systems management for our customers." BMC Performance Manager Protects Existing Investments BMC Performance Manager upgrades existing PATROL and PATROL Express installations and protects an existing investment in those technologies. This upgrade approach simplifies deployment as no migration is required to enable the new functionality. In addition, by leveraging the existing infrastructure, existing PATROL and PATROL Express products retain their viability until upgraded. At no point in time do existing PATROL and PATROL Express solutions become obsolete in relation to use with BMC Performance Manager. In addition, BMC Performance Manager retains the existing integrations to other BMC Software and third-party products currently available in both PATROL and PATROL Express, thus ensuring a strong foundation for BSM. About BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE:BMC), is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. 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