HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s recently released “Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling” research report.¹

Playing a key role in BMC’s Business Service Management (BSM) strategy, BMC’s CONTROL-M workload automation solution allows customers to automate the execution of processes across the enterprise which is critical to achieving IT cost reduction. The solution minimizes errors and gives IT a higher level of control and flexibility over their batch jobs which are increasingly integrated with business services and online processing. As stated within the report, “Gartner inquiries reflect that 70 percent of business processes are performed in batch, rather than real-time.”² With batch processing becoming a key component to delivering critical business services, CONTROL-M helps meet the business goals of companies around the world.

According to Gartner, vendors positioned in the Leaders Quadrant have a large, satisfied installed base and a high degree of visibility in the market. They offer robust, highly scalable applications, and have the strategic vision to address evolving enterprise requirements in the areas of:

• IT Workload Automation Broker
• Integration with packaged applications
• Support of new application and composite application architectures, integration with BSM tools, provisioning and RBA tools
• Ability to handle physical and virtual environments
• Integration with service desk tools
• Proven critical path analysis capability
• Forecasting capability
• Workload life cycle management capability
• Support agent-based and agentless architectures; and
• Ability to perform end-to-end automation

“We believe this report positions BMC extremely well as a clear leader in the space,” said Bill Miller, president of BMC’s Mainframe Service Management business unit. “As the volume and complexity of workload automation continues to skyrocket, the inability to accurately understand process can lead to detrimental effects on business operations. From timely delivery of ice cream to accurate processing of online orders in manufacturing and shipping departments, companies are turning to BMC and CONTROL-M to help them manage their critical IT business processes.”

"Batch is no longer a part of the business, it is the business," said Robert Stinnett, senior analyst, Carfax. "As the most trusted provider of vehicle history information, we are constantly working to deliver the best service possible to our customers both internally and externally. Customer satisfaction is one of our number one goals and our ability to clearly execute well on our job scheduling is key to delivering our business services and ultimately making our customers happy. CONTROL-M give us the confidence we need to ensure that our services will be delivered on time and without fail."

BMC’s CONTROL-M supports the company’s BSM strategy by helping customers better understand the relationship between real-time and batch processing environments and then managing those environments to assure on-time delivery of the business services they support.

BMC’s newest release of CONTROL-M with Workload Lifecycle Management simplifies enterprise job scheduling and improves service to the end-user, while reducing costs. The solution helps customers manage numerous workloads across a variety of IT environments. CONTROL-M further sharpens BMC’s edge over competitors and strengthens its leadership in IT Workload Automation and BSM.

For more information please visit BMC CONTROL-M. For videos explaining more about the CONTROL-M tool go to BMCtv: http://www.bmctv.com/for-it-professionals.

Business runs on IT. IT runs on BMC Software.

Business thrives when IT runs smarter, faster, and stronger. That’s why the most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software across both distributed and mainframe environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC’s comprehensive approach and unified platform helps IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2008, BMC revenue was approximately $1.86 billion. Visit www.bmc.com for more information.

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About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted April 28, 2009 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.

^1,2 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling” by Milind Govekar, April, 28, 2009.