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Popular CONTROL-M Solution Manages Mainframe and Distributed Systems Via 'Single Pane of Glass' Dashboard and CMDB Integration HOUSTON, March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) today announced that its BMC CONTROL-M job-scheduling solution has been positioned in Gartner's recently released "Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling, 2006" research report. (1) BMC CONTROL-M is one of the cornerstone products used to implement Business Service Management (BSM), an ITIL(R)-based approach for aligning the entire IT environment to the goals of the business. Since its advent in 2003, BSM has been very popular with customers, a fact that continues to drive significant growth for BMC. "We believe this report positions the CONTROL-M solution extremely well as a leader in this space," said Gur Steif, vice president of Scheduling and Output Management Solutions. "CONTROL-M helps customers manage business impacts 'down to the minute,' and it is an important part of connecting the mainframe environment into the larger BSM IT management strategy. Whether focused on retail, financial or manufacturing, companies are turning to BMC to manage their most critical IT business processes, and the success of CONTROL-M is a great example of that trend." The industry's first agent-less scheduling solution, BMC CONTROL-M provides enterprise CIOs and their IT management teams with an integrated, single-view management console that cuts across mainframe and distributed systems, including those previously considered inaccessible. BMC CONTROL-M integrates with other BMC solutions to enable enterprises to correlate specific jobs to the business processes they automate, assess the business impact and assign Service Level Agreements based on business priorities. Combined with a BMC Atrium configuration management database (CMDB), batch services can be discovered or stored from CONTROL-M, which greatly improves the change management process in the job-scheduling environment. Today, more than 2,000 organizations have installed BMC CONTROL-M, the vast majority of which replaced an existing scheduling tool, and are leveraging the solution to meet BSM objectives. According to the Gartner report, Gartner evaluates technology providers on "the quality and efficacy of the processes, systems, methods or procedures that enable IT provider performance to be competitive, efficient and effective, and to positively affect revenue, retention and reputation. Ultimately, vendors are judged on their ability and success in capitalizing on their vision." About BMC Software BMC Software 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. For the four fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2006, BMC revenue was approximately $1.57 billion. For more information, visit http://www.bmc.com/ . (1) Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling, 2006", by Milind Govekar, February 27, 2007. (1) The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted February 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. 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. ITIL(R) is a Registered Trade Mark, and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce, and is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20011003/BMCLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: BMC Software, Inc. CONTACT: Linda McDowell of BMC Software, Inc., +1-713-918-3518, or ; or Loralynne Evans of Waggener Edstrom, +1-512-527-7034, or , for BMC Software, Inc. Web site: http://www.bmc.com/

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