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- BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0 Engineered for Agility and Dependability HOUSTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As Business Service Management (BSM) continues to move into the IT mainstream, BMC Software today launched its second generation BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and BMC Automated Discovery solutions as part of its expanded BSM foundation technologies that enable customers executing on BSM to manage their IT from a rigorous business perspective. "BMC can deliver key BSM benefits to customers faster than anyone else," said Tom Bishop, chief technology officer, BMC Software. "Pre-integrated out of the box, BMC's foundation technologies include proven, light-weight, customer-validated second generation offerings like the new BMC Atrium CMDB and Automated Discovery solutions. Many of our competitors are still working on these areas in their labs, and their CMDBs are really just retrofitted monolithic databases and other kinds of all-inclusive, top-heavy data buckets." "In sharp contrast, BMC understands what data should be in a CMDB, and what data shouldn't be there," Bishop continued. "We understand that customers want a robust, practical, fault-tolerant CMDB that won't be a single point of risk in their datacenter like the 'frameworks' of 10 years ago. We understand that customers need a single, consolidated view of an IT infrastructure. BMC is delivering these benefits to customers now in second generation solutions like BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0 and Automated Discovery." The cornerstone of the company's BSM foundation technologies, BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0 unifies the sharing of IT configuration and business priority information. BMC Automated Discovery works in partnership with BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0 to model all IT-supporting elements -- from technology to business processes to people -- and delivers a single, unified, business-relevant view into the IT environment. Taken together, these foundation technologies deliver a level of insight into how IT supports the business that is not available from any other vendor. As a result, customers are able to make more educated and calculated IT decisions in support of business goals, which is the essence of BSM. The new BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0 is engineered from the ground up to be light- weight, fault-tolerant, robust, and easy to implement and use. It extends the company's analyst-recognized BSM leadership with CMDB innovations that include much deeper levels of integration, an updated architecture, improved federation capabilities, definitive software library (DSL) deployment, graphical data views for all applications, and improved data reconciliation. Building on the first generation BMC Atrium CMDB released in early 2005, the second generation was developed with input from hundreds of customers and includes a set of innovative, shared technologies that link together -- or federate -- disparate views of the IT infrastructure while providing a shared understanding of business priorities. Meeting the demands of a growing business like Mary Kay while maintaining control and consistency is an exceptionally difficult task. The world leader in direct sales of cosmetics and skin care products, this BMC customer has averaged double-digit annual growth since 1963, posting fiscal 2004 revenues of $1.8 billion. Robert Bova, Mary Kay's director of technology services, said: "We view Business Service Management as a practical way to get our arms around our growing business and IT environment and connect our IT infrastructure to the business and to our employees. The ability to completely understand all of the technology and how it directly impacts the business is priceless." Steve Moore, Mary Kay's technology leader, added: "The openness of BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0 gives us the capability to integrate other discovery tools and asset tools within the environment, as well as integrate other data sources within the environment. We now have a discovery aspect and an impact management aspect that we're integrating into the CMDB, leveraging the capability to integrate existing, well-known industry solutions into one repository." According to Forrester Research, "a true CMDB is created by using two key types of input -- IT asset management data and application mapping auto- discovery data."(1) The addition of Identity Discovery, Discovery for Business Processes, and Discovery for Storage to BMC's existing discovery products provides customers with the broadest and deepest view into the IT infrastructure and relationships, and to date, is unparalleled in the industry. Data and models discovered are brought into the federated CMDB environment, so they can be used in the most effective matter to support BSM and ITIL processes. The company's imminent release of Discovery for Mainframes, due this fall, will further extend its foundation technologies. Underpinned by the consistent data model of BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0, the level of integration produced by BMC's BSM solutions translates directly into superlative accuracy and consistency. Performance is optimized, redundancies are reduced, and operational costs -- which are the bulk of any IT budget -- are slashed. For the first time, organizations that are successfully executing BSM can enjoy a massive improvement in their ability to understand and manage their IT from a business perspective. As a result, more and more IT executives are driving IT decisions based on BSM. Other BMC solutions support BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0 and Automated Discovery, including an extensive roster of "industry firsts." Customers are now able to access a new CMDB management console, a configuration item graphical relationship viewer and browser, and new status accounting and drift tracking capabilities. Notable modules shipping as components of BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0 include a Definitive Software Library and Software Product Dictionary. Continued advancement of BMC Atrium View technologies will lead to additional new cross-functional dashboards and analytics capabilities that span both IT processes and the BMC Atrium CMDB. These aggregated business views into the IT environment are depicted visually with graphics or analog data, providing easy and clear graphical illustrations to visually support business goals. In addition, BMC is leading the way toward the first CMDB interoperability specification as part of a recently created industry working group. About BMC Software BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) is a leading global provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC posted fiscal 2005 revenues of more than $1.46 billion. For more information, visit http://www.bmc.com/. 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