BMC Software’s AppSight Achieves Ready for IBM Rational Software Validation

New Integrations Streamline Application Problem Resolution Workflows for the IBM IDE

NEW YORK, June 13, 2006 – BMC Software’s AppSight™ Application Problem Resolution system has achieved IBM’s Ready for IBM Rational software validation.

“This validation clearly signals Rational development shops that they can easily integrate AppSight’s problem resolution capabilities into their development, test and support processes,” said Yochi Slonim, vice president and general manager, Transaction Management, BMC Software. “AppSight has been proven by more than 500 development organizations to reduce test cycles, accelerate application delivery, reduce support costs, and improve the availability and performance of business-critical applications.”

IBM business partner products are validated for integration with the IBM Rational Software Development Platform via a process called “Ready for IBM Rational software.” The new integrations between BMC AppSight and IBM Rational ClearQuest enhance the application development lifecycle by automating and accelerating the tasks of application problem resolution—one of the most time-consuming and costly processes throughout the application lifecycle.

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, fully 80 percent of software development dollars are spent resolving software defects. BMC AppSight’s integration with IBM Rational ClearQuest enables two critical problem resolution workflows: problem resolution in quality assurance (QA) and in ongoing production support.

BMC AppSight leverages patented Black Box software to record application execution and capture a synchronized, real-time log of user actions, system events, performance metrics, configuration data, and code execution flow. Operating much like the “black box” flight recorder on an aircraft, BMC AppSight automates manual information gathering, completely eliminates problem recreation, and provably accelerates the root cause analysis process by as much as 80 percent.

Using the integrated solution, a QA engineer who uncovers a problem can use BMC AppSight to capture the actual problem history in an AppSight Black Box log file, which is linked to an IBM Rational ClearQuest incident report. This eliminates the time-consuming tasks of problem replication and documentation, which can account for 30 percent to 50 percent of a tester’s productive time. Developers can then analyze the Black Box log to determine the root cause—which completely eliminates the need to first recreate the environment or the problem, and also eliminates irreproducible problems (reported in QA, but not reproducible in Development).

When a problem occurs in the production environment, BMC AppSight can automatically attach the Black Box log file to an existing IBM Rational ClearQuest incident (if it already exists), or create a new incident report. By automating information gathering and eliminating the need to reproduce the production environment and replicate the problem, AppSight offers significant benefits to the end-user, the support engineer, and the development team, who are often involved in the production problem resolution process.

The BMC AppSight plug-in for IBM can be accessed through the Ready for IBM Rational software Plug-in Central at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/downloads/plugin.

About BMC AppSight
BMC AppSight, the industry-leading application problem resolution system, is helping over 500 enterprises and software vendors speed application delivery, increase application quality, performance, and availability, and reduce application support costs. BMC AppSight was created by Identify Software Ltd., which was acquired by BMC in May 2006. For more information about BMC AppSight, please visit www.identify.com or call 800.364.5467.

About BMC Software
BMC Software [NYSE: BMC] is a leading global provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage IT from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC solutions span enterprise systems, applications, and database and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC posted fiscal 2006 revenues of more than $1.49 billion. For information, visit www.bmc.com.

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