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Company Honored for Innovation in Software Development, Partner Activities, Customer Satisfaction and Identity Management HOUSTON, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) was recently honored by leading industry trade publications for the BMC(R) Identity Management Suite and the engineering of the new BMC(R) Performance Manager architecture. The company was also named as a finalist for Microsoft Corp.'s 2006 Global ISV Partner of the Year award based on the excellence of its identity management solution, BMC Identity Management for .NET. Additionally, two of BMC's customers, Amber Alert and Oklahoma Heart Hospital, were honored as finalists by the Computerworld Honors program in their annual 21st Century Achievement Awards. The Computerworld Honors Program recognizes individuals and organizations that have used information technology to benefit society. BMC's Infrastructure and Application Management development team was selected as winner of a 2006 Innovator Award by Application Development Trends (ADT) for the development of BMC Performance Manager using the Scrum methodology. 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. ADT's 12th annual Innovator Awards recognize the work of IT teams who have developed and deployed unique applications to solve the company's business problems. In the case of BMC, this required the development of a new architecture that combined the company's successful PATROL solutions into a single platform within a ten-month timeframe. "As a result of these agile development efforts, BMC customers are now taking advantage of faster release cycles enabled by the new agile development methodology and the new functionality," said Israel Gat, vice president, Infrastructure Management, BMC. "The project brought new capabilities to customers in a matter of months, instead of years. As a result, customers are in a better position to deliver greater business benefits to their companies." In addition, BMC Identity Management Suite 5.0 won the eWEEK Excellence Award in the Authentication and User Management category. The BMC Identity Management Suite is an integrated offering of directory management and visualization, access management, user administration and provisioning, password management and audit and compliance management solutions. The BMC Identity Management Suite allows customers to leverage identity information to proactively address business critical issues such as compliance, authorized access, application security and data security. "We have distinguished ourselves from the competition not only by providing one of the most integrated suites on the market, but also by having the unique ability to leverage identity data across the IT infrastructure to allow our customers to better manage the impact of changes in process and technology on people," said Somesh Singh, vice president and general manager, Identity Management Business Unit, BMC. The eWEEK Excellence Awards provide enterprise IT professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing products and services that demonstrate innovation and integrate cutting-edge technologies while maintaining strong commitment to helping enterprises address their varied competitive, security and budgetary concerns. Also honoring the company's identity management offerings, BMC was named a finalist in the 2006 Microsoft Partner Program Awards in the category Global ISV Partner of the Year. This award recognizes partners that develop and sell software solutions based on Microsoft technologies; BMC is nominated for its work on BMC Identity Management for .NET. The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. Multiple awards are distributed in four categories: Partner of the Year for Technology Innovation, Partner of the Year for Sales and Marketing, the Specialization Excellence Awards and the Microsoft Initiative Awards. Winners for the 2006 Microsoft Partner Program Awards were announced July 12, 2006 in Boston at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. BMC was also recently announced a winner of a CMP Media LLC's Network Computing 2006 Well-Connected Award for BMC(R) Virtualizer. About BMC Software BMC Software delivers the Business Service Management solutions IT needs to increase business value through better management of technology and IT processes. Founded in 1980, BMC has offices worldwide and posted fiscal 2006 revenues of more than $1.49 billion. For more information, visit http://www.bmc.com/. NOTE: BMC, BMC Software, and the BMC Software logo are the exclusive properties of BMC Software, Inc., are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other BMC trademarks, service marks, and logos may be registered or pending registration in the U.S. or in other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 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