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BMC Software, Inc.

bmc.com

BMC Software Corporate Profile

About BMC Software

Business runs on IT. IT runs on BMC Software.

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 help IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2009, BMC revenue was approximately $1.87 billion.

Corporate Background

Founded in September 1980
Initial public offering in August 1988
Corporate headquarters located in Houston, Texas
International headquarters located in Amsterdam and Singapore
Market coverage in more than 115 countries
Research and development offices located in Houston and Austin, TX; San Jose, CA; Atlanta, GA; Waltham, MA; Herndon, VA; Aix-en-Provence, France; Singapore; Tel Aviv, Israel and Pune, India
Approximately 5,800 employees worldwide
Member of S&P 500
Products sold through direct sales and indirect channels including resellers, system integrators and original equipment manufacturers

Financial Information

Total revenues: Fiscal 2009 - $1.87 billion
Net earnings excluding special items: Fiscal 2009 - $400 million

Industry Partnerships

BMC and Cisco partner to deliver Cisco's new Unified Computing System, allowing automation of provisioning and re-configuring in both virtual and physical resources through one console
Comprehensive BMC Software Developer Connection and MarketZone program, consisting of more than 8,000 customers and commercial- software developers, facilitates third-party development of products integrated with BMC Software products
Business Service Management (BSM) Foundation Partnerships with EMC for Storage, Symantec for Security and Accenture for Systems Integration
Additional Global Alliance Partnerships with industry leaders such as Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Dell, Deloitte, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Siebel Systems and Sun Microsystems
BMC Software solutions integrated with and resold by numerous BSM partners including system integrators, as well as database, application and hardware vendors

Customer Profile

Serving Global 2000 companies that manage highly complex, heterogeneous and decentralized IT environments
Approximately 15,000 worldwide customers
Approximately 99% of the Forbes Global 100 and more than 85% of Fortune 500 companies rely on BMC Software

Innovation, Awards, and Recognition

Innovation

Holds 94 software technology patents
Pioneered the concept Business Service Management
Industry’s first application management solution provider via PATROL
First ISV (independent software vendor) to deliver tools for IBM’s IMS and DB2 databases
First software vendor to offer a comprehensive management solution for B2B exchanges and extended enterprises
Invented data stream optimization -- ensuring that the movement of data from one location to another (e.g. from server to client) is fast, steady and continuous through application and data management

Awards and Recognition

BMC Won CIO 100 Award from CIO Magazine
- BMC Software has earned the 2009 CIO 100 Award, issued each year by CIO Magazine, for implementing effective and innovative internal IT solutions that create business value. BMC used its own Business Service Management solutions to build was was recognized as an innovative internal cloud computing environment to achieve maximum return on server and storage investments while supporting BMC's global software development programs.
- To be considered for the 22nd annual CIO 100 Awards, organisations have to complete a rigorous application process and their accomplishments are scrutinized by a team of 40 judges.
BMC is recognized as a “Leader” in the following Forrester Waves:
- Forrester: Who's Hot in Business Services Management (June 2009)
- Forrester: Market Overview: IT Financial Management Software (May 2009)
- Forrester: IT Management Software Positioning Benchmark (February 2009)
- Forrester: Holistic View: The IT Management Software Market, (June 2008)
- Forrester: The Megavendors in IT Management Software, (May 2008)
- The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation, Q2 2008 (April 2008)
BMC is positioned in the “Leaders Quadrant” in the following Gartner Magic Quadrant:
- Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling, 2008, M. Govekar, April 2009
- Magic Quadrant for the IT Service Desk, 2008, D. Coyle & K. Brittain, May 2006
According to Gartner, BMC ranks as one of the top three vendors in:
- Job Scheduling worldwide based on total software revenue (“Market Share: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2005”, Ruggero Contu, June 2006)
- IT Service Desk & Help Desk worldwide based on total software revenue (“Market Share: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2005”, Ruggero Contu, June 2006)
- DBMS Management worldwide based on total software revenue (“Market Share: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2005”, Ruggero Contu, June 2006)
According to recent IDC market research reports, BMC ranks in the top 3 for vendor market shares in the following software markets:
- Database Development & Management Tools ("Worldwide Data Management Facilities Software 2005-2009 Forecast and 2004 Vendor Shares", IDC #34207, September 2005)
- Performance Management ("Worldwide Performance and Availability Management Software 2005 Vendor Shares", IDC #202794, August 2006)
- Problem Management ("Worldwide Problem Management Software 2005-2009 Forecast and 2004 Vendor Shares", IDC #33804, August 2005)