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BEA Systems and BMC Software(R) Expand Alliance to Unite Business Process Management With Business Service Management Integration Designed to Allow Customers to Correlate IT Event and Service Impact Data With Business Process Management Information NEW YORK, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- From its exclusive Business Service Management (BSM) Executive Event, BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE:BMC), a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, and BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS), a leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced that the companies have expanded their alliance to create products and services designed to extend BSM solutions and help integrate BMC(R) Service Impact Manager and BEA Business Process Management (a component of BEA WebLogic Integration(TM)). Together, these solutions will be designed to deliver comprehensive business process management as part of an infrastructure, application, service impact and event management strategy that can help enable customers to manage IT to meet the changing needs of business. The focus of the expanded BMC Software and BEA relationship is to create solutions that can help customers take preemptive action to correct IT problems before they create a business process outage, thus helping them quickly implement BSM solutions. BMC Software's BSM strategy helps enable companies to move beyond traditional IT management to better control their critical services from a business perspective. BSM complements BEA Systems services-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, which can help customers manage services based on business priority. SOA is a standards-based organizational and design methodology that can more closely align IT with business processes by using standard interfaces and shared services on a network. Integration Designed to Unite BPM and BSM BEA and BMC Software currently have two-way integration of BMC Software PATROL(R), BEA WebLogic Server(TM), BEA WebLogic Integration and BEA WebLogic Tuxedo(TM). This integration is now in use by many customers worldwide. Today, BEA and BMC Software are announcing plans to develop an integration of BMC Service Impact Manager and BEA WebLogic Integration designed to help enable BMC Software and BEA customers to export and correlate IT event and service impact management data with Business Process Management information. BMC Software and BEA believe that combining BPM with service impact and event management can help drive a new and innovative route to value for BSM. The planned integration improves visibility between IT and the business so that IT events can be correlated with business processes in real time. The planned integration will provide two-way visibility: alerting operations personnel to business services that are impacted by IT events and notifying business users about IT events that may potentially impact their business. The goal of the combined BSM and BPM solution is to provide customers with the ability to meet or exceed service levels and ensure consistent performance of business- critical applications that run on the BEA Systems platforms. "Web-based applications are emerging as a preferred method for delivering new IT-driven business processes. BEA Systems' focus on service-oriented architecture, underscored by its award winning WebLogic and Tuxedo-based solutions, is among the leading platforms for this new paradigm," said Bobby Napiltonia, vice president and general manager, global alliances, BEA Systems. "Because of their importance in delivering IT-driven business processes, maintaining the availability and performance of Web-based applications is critical to business success. This extension of our current alliance with BMC is designed to help customers gain the ability to manage their business processes in coordination with the underlying IT infrastructure that supports those processes. The objective of this integration is to help customers understand the impact of IT events on business processes more easily and to allow system administrators to prioritize their work based on business needs." The integrated solution will be designed to support BMC Software's Infrastructure and Application Management as well as the Service Impact and Event Management Routes to Value (RTVs), two of BMC Software's eight RTVs, which are methods for achieving Business Service Management. BSM solutions provide a consolidated view of business and IT operations, tightly linking IT resources to business objectives and managing those resources based on business priorities. "Through the integration of business process management data from BEA solutions and BMC Service Impact Manager, enterprises can be well positioned to take preemptive action to correct an IT problem before it creates a business process outage and quickly ascertain whether a business process outage is being caused by an IT problem," said Mary Nugent, vice president and general manager, Service Management Solutions, BMC Software. "The integration of BEA application server and transaction processing solutions with BMC Software's Business Service Management solutions will be designed to help customers identify, prioritize and solve those problems that have the highest impact on their business, thus ensuring uninterrupted business operations." About BEA BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, helping enable companies to improve business responsiveness through service- oriented architecture (SOA), a software design approach that more closely aligns IT with business objectives. With 15,000 customers worldwide including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic(R) and Tuxedo(R) brands are among the most trusted names in business technology. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA is a billion-dollar company with 71 offices in 34 countries. More information on BEA products and services is available at http://www.bea.com/ . About BMC Software BMC Software, Inc., 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. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2004 revenues of more than $1.4 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit http://www.bmc.com/ . For more information on BSM go to http://www.bmc.com/bsm . BMC Software, the BMC Software logos, and all other BMC Software product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. BEA and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding the plans, goals, completion, implementation, benefits, and details of the relationship between BEA and BMC Software ("Global Partner"); the development efforts, product integration, product delivery and other goals related to this relationship; and the features and benefits of BEA's and Global Partner's integrated solutions and products. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the development and optimization BEA's or Global Partner's products; the timing of additional investments of resources by BEA and Global Partner related to any joint initiatives; and any software errors related to BEA's or Global Partner's products or the integration thereof. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2004 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter by BEA from time-to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20011003/BMCLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: BMC Software, Inc.; BEA Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Heather Real of BMC Software, Inc., +1-713-918-1649, or ; or Susan Siegel of BEA Systems, Inc., +1-408-570-8364, or Web site: http://www.bmc.com/ http://www.bea.com/ http://www.bmc.com/bsm

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