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BMC Software has been a strategic partner with Compaq for years. This relationship is based on BMC Software's ability to support all Compaq platforms, including OpenVMS, and provide comprehensive solutions for application availability and enterprise systems management.

Recently, BMC Software and Compaq signed an agreement to work closer together to enhance the management support for OpenVMS.

BMC Software offers advanced management capabilities specific to the OpenVMS platform in the areas of: application management, performance management and capacity planning, database management, security management, middleware management, business integrated scheduling, and business information management.

Eliminates integrity problems in real time, providing a valuable tool for crisis prevention. The product is designed to perform automatic data balancing of different applications, or of different runs of the same application. CONTROL-B assures that data integrity problems are discovered as they occur, preventing incorrect data from being dispersed to other information sources and end-users within the organization.

• Reduces the amount of time required to audit non-integrated systems applications
• Provides quality control during job execution, eliminating the need for subsequent manual checking
• Automatically reconciles errors, notifies the appropriate personnel, opens a problem ticket or halts production
• Avoids potential production problems through early detection of errors, saving the organization money, resources and time

Provides the tools necessary for automating report-handling tasks from report creation to breakdown, storage, viewing, delivery and deletion. Automation and integration of all aspects of enterprise-wide output management eliminates human error, improves information throughput and maximizes resource use.

• Enhances end user experience by implementing platform independent viewing, data analysis and charting
• Ensures fast ROI through easy implementation and reduced operational costs
• Improves information throughput and maximizes resource usage
• Saves costs by eliminating the need to manually distribute documents

Captures report and documents electronically from a variety of systems and platforms for instant delivery to end users via print, fax and email. This suite breaks down and assigns ownership to all output generated within the multi-platform enterprise. CONTROL-D Distribution and Print guarantees immediate delivery upon document availability, thereby increasing employee productivity and decreasing organizational costs.

• Increases employee productivity by providing the right information as soon as it is available
• Minimizes manual effort by automating report delivery
• Decreases organizational costs by eliminating manual distribution

Provides the tools necessary for your business to strategically handle and process report information. This product helps you successfully automate management of large output environments. It simplifies report processing and distribution. You can centrally handle reports arriving from sources across hundreds of sites that have access to multiple output devices. Reports are comprehensively broken down and indexed, and ownership is automatically assigned.

• Secures business-critical documents and guarantees information delivery
• Ensures fast return on investment (ROI) through easy implementation and reduced operational costs
• Encourages organizational growth with scalable and open architecture
• Improves customer service and enhances end user productivity
• Minimizes printing and distribution costs

Offers a comprehensive, centralized approach to business information management. ERP application output can move efficiently throughout the organization, from creation to end user viewing.

• Ensures delivery of business-critical business information with full tracking from the SAP GUI
• Reduces printing and archiving costs

Connects end users with your legacy and modern applications and platforms. With this product, a standard Web browser or desktop solution can provide quick, authorized access to relevant information. In addition, older reports created years ago on legacy systems can be accessed as easily as newer ones.

• Reduces printing, delivery and storage expenses
• Enhances and optimizes customer service while shortening response times
• Optimizes critical business processes
• Leverages existing investments

Unifies the report life cycle for AS/400 systems by connecting production output with business workflow. This product examines the contents of each AS/400 report page based on user-defined criteria. As report ownership is determined, it assigns pages to a recipient. This product delivers complete report breakdown and indexing so that each person receives and manages only the output he or she needs and is authorized to receive.

• Provides intelligent automation of report ownership and flexibility to secure information access
• Reduces system load, by minimizing footprint
• Eases administrative tasks

Facilitates centralized monitoring and configuration of OpenVMS Alpha reports. This product delivers complete report breakdown and indexing so that each report owner receives and manages only the output they are authorized to receive.

• Reduces system load by minimizing footprint
• Eases administrative tasks
• Ensures access to all of your OpenVMS Alpha-based information

Facilitates centralized monitoring and configuration of OpenVMS VAX reports. This product delivers complete report breakdown and indexing so that each report owner receives and manages only the output they are authorized to receive.

• Reduces system load by minimizing footprint
• Eases administrative tasks
• Ensures access to all of your OpenVMS VAX-based information

Facilitates centralized monitoring and configuration of Tandem reports. This product delivers complete report breakdown and indexing so that each report owner receives and manages only the output they are authorized to receive.

• Reduces system load by minimizing footprint
• Ensures access to all of your Tandem-based information
• Eases administrative tasks

Centralizes monitoring and configuration of Unix-based reports by channeling your various Unix information sources into a business information management environment. This product delivers complete report breakdown and indexing so that each report owner receives and manages only the output they are authorized to receive.

• Reduces system load by minimizing footprint
• Ensures access to all of your Unix-based information
• Eases administrative tasks

Centralizes monitoring and configuration of Windows NT-based reports by channeling your various Windows NT information sources into a business information management environment. This product delivers complete report breakdown and indexing so that each report owner receives and manages only the output they are authorized to receive.

• Reduces system load by minimizing footprint
• Eases administrative tasks
• Ensures access to all of your Microsoft Windows-based information

Makes vital information available to your entire organization through centralized management and viewing systems. This product offers instant viewing of original and archived documentation. Documents such as processed and archived bank checks, bills, trade invoices, and active and inactive insurance policies are easily accessible. Instead of initiating archive searches in an organization's document library via various media, which takes time and manpower, CONTROL-D/Image uses an electronic centralized management system.

• Enables convenient access to all reports, documents and images via one focal point
• Offers access to visual representations of original legal documents such as statements and policies
• Increases customer service by ensuring call centers view accurate customer information
• Provides online image viewing of atypical data elements in the original document format

Provides report viewing of CONTROL-D mainframe documents via any of the CONTROL-D business information management end user applications. Page On Demand technology supports indexing features that isolate and access specific business criteria within a document.

• Increases customer satisfaction by providing immediate access to all relevant information
• Renews access to otherwise inaccessible legacy information
• Increases end-user productivity due to the availability of all information sources
• Connects open systems front-office applications with the mainframe
• Integrates within CONTROL-D/PC and CONTROL-D/WebAccess Server
• Retrieves all CONTROL-D mainframe reports and images

Supports indexing features that can isolate and access specific business criteria within a report or document. This product offers an interface that allows you to access information from within homegrown solutions.

• Increases customer satisfaction by providing immediate access to all relevant information
• Renews access to otherwise inaccessible legacy information
• Increases end-user productivity due to the availability of all information sources

Provides end users with a single, secure system for managing all reports and documents across the enterprise. A personal report and document workshop manager, this product help users keep up with the many reports processed each day.

• Decreases printing costs
• Increases user productivity
• Offers a single, secure system for managing reports

Organizations an inexpensive way to access reports and documents via the Web. CONTROL-D/WebAccess Server's sophisticated viewing capabilities facilitate online report-handling tasks, providing Web access to business information. Communication possibilities increase with convenient access to corporate information and production reports over the intranet, Internet or extranet.

• Improves customer service
• Cuts printing and distribution costs
• Web-enables legacy and modern reports and documents

Supplies production and scheduling control over multiple platforms and applications across the enterprise from a single point of management. The product's proven success record maximizes data center hardware and software investments over multiple platforms, merging new and traditional technologies to effectively manage heterogeneous environments. CONTROL-M supports over 20 platforms, including OS/390, Unix, Microsoft Windows NT, AS/400, SAP R/3, Tivoli, Tandem and Unisys 2200.

• Automates the tedious details of production management
• Minimizes manual intervention in the production process
• Simplifies production management through user-friendly capabilities, including management-by-color and management-by-exception
• Reduces manual errors and costs, streamlining the production flow

Extensive facilities to easily automate production control in a focused, consistent manner. The product offers a comprehensive solution to easily manage complex and intricate data center processing. Overloaded production control staff can effectively handle the recurring problems facing data centers.

• Reduces costs associated with moving to a heterogeneous environment consisting of multiple platforms
• Minimizes manual intervention in the production workflow
• Automates routine production tasks to eliminate human error, improve throughput and maximize computer resource use
• Offers unparalleled design and built-in integration with other system management tools, positioning CONTROL-M as the premier production control system

Automates and integration of business processes, both within and outside the Baan environment. The CONTROL-M Option for Baan open interface handles Baan jobs as though they were regular batch jobs. The integration of Baan within enterprise production controls streamline processes and reduces manual intervention and errors. CONTROL-M users define Baan jobs through either the Baan or CONTROL-M job definition process. Thus, the learning curve is significantly reduced, and training and impact costs are eliminated.

• Integrates the Baan environment with production scheduling across a multitude of platforms
• Provides an enterprise-wide view for managing and automating cross-application relationships
• Enhances the Baan scheduling capabilities: cross-platform dependencies, execution statistics, logical resources

Ensures automation and integration of production processes within and outside the Oracle Applications environment. All jobs and processes are managed in the same way through CONTROL-M. Certified by Oracle in accordance with the OnOracle and CAI programs.

• Integrates the Oracle Applications environment with production scheduling across a multitude of platforms including OS/390, Unix, Microsoft Windows NT and AS/400
• Consolidates the production environment into an enterprise-wide view for managing and automating cross-application relationships
• Enhances the scheduling facilities of Oracle Applications with multiple cross-platform dependencies, execution statistics, logical resources and post-execution analysis

Provides a variety of features to enhance basic scheduling of PeopleSoft application.

• Consolidates production environment into an enterprise-wide view for managing & automating cross-application relationships
• Offers comprehensive scheduling capabilities that include multiple cross-platform dependencies, execution statistics, logical resources and post-execution analysis
• Enables integration of PeopleSoft with non-PeopleSoft production processing (for example, MVS jobs or Unix shell scripts), creating a single, homogeneous production environment

Offers extensive facilities to easily automate production control in a focused, consistent manner. The product offers a comprehensive solution to easily manage complex and intricate data center processing. Overloaded production control staff can effectively handle the recurring problems facing data centers.

• Reduces costs associated with moving to a heterogeneous environment consisting of multiple platforms
• Minimizes manual intervention in the production workflow
• Automates routine production tasks eliminating human error, improving throughput & maximize computer resources
• Offers unparalleled design and built-in integration with other system management tools, positioning CONTROL-M as the premier production control system

Incorporates the benefit of Tivoli Enterprise Software to automatically coordinate the execution of various production processes and jobs. Users can access a consistent interface for both the CONTROL-M and Tivoli Enterprise products.

• Integrates multiple systems and applications across the production enterprise
• Minimizes production management costs
• Simplifies exception discovery and handling
• Offers a consolidated enterprise view of all components that allows enterprise-wide event management, alerts, problem ticketing, backups, administration and monitoring

A tightly integrated module that combines the advanced management capabilities of CONTROL-M with global control offered by HP OpenView. This integration provides a comprehensive tool to help administrators handle their ever-changing IT environments.

• Unites the global picture received by HP OpenView with CONTROL-M's capabilities for problem identification, verification of cause and automatic response to jobs
• Furnishes optimal support for the IT organization
• Streamlines production management and control

An automation tool that extends CONTROL-M's application setup and result analysis capabilities. It allows production operations personnel to efficiently implement automatic procedures to improve the flow and accuracy of information and expedite processes in the production environment.

• Uses the knowledge and experience gathered from operations personnel to enhance the batch setup process
• Enables decisions and actions to be executed at machine speed with precision accuracy

CONTROL-M/eTrigger provides seamless, integrated front- and back-end production self-service capabilities. The product enables internal and external Web users to perform production processes on their own.

• Shortens the information time cycle
• Eliminates manual intervention
• Increases user satisfaction
• Reduces operational costs
• Enables 24x365 user activation of internal business applications using the intranet, extranet and Internet

An integral part of the INCONTROL^™ for Production Management suite of products. The product integrates scheduling with event management, extending the scope of production management.

• Alleviates costs through rule-based automation, permitting rapid implementation and deployment of enterprise event management
• Provides a GUI & simple fill-in-the-blanks forms for rule creation so no programming or parameter editing is required
• Offers a rich set of APIs for easy extension of automation capabilities for homegrown or eccentric applications or platforms

Production environments encompass job scheduling and management of databases, online tasks, commands, messages and other external events. CONTROL-M/Links for OS/390 addresses the issue of managing the production schedule while effectively utilizing limited data-center resources.

• Provides complete integration and standardization of the production-control environment
• Offers comprehensive automation tool designed to integrate entire operations environment into production schedule
• Interacts with all aspects of systems management to gather operations data, which is used to automatically drive the decision-making process for production environment and job flows

The CONTROL-M/WebAccess product allows end users across the organization to view and manage jobs in the production environment via any popular Web browser. The only thing that is required is a laptop and an Internet connection. There is no need to learn a GUI or any special terminology to monitor the production environment.

• Brings Internet capabilities to the CONTROL-M production environment
• Interacts with all aspects of the production process in real time
• Performs securely from the Web a full range of actions in the production environment including listing active jobs, checking job status and performing corrective actions and ad hoc scheduling requests

Allows end users across the organization to view and manage jobs in the production environment via any popular Web browser. The only thing that is required is a laptop and an Internet connection. There is no need to learn a GUI or any special terminology to monitor the production environment.

• Brings Internet capabilities to the CONTROL-M production environment
• Interacts with all aspects of the production process in real time
• Performs securely from the Web a full range of actions in the production environment including listing active jobs, checking job status and performing corrective actions and ad hoc scheduling requests

A comprehensive and automated system operations solution that provides flexible and cost-efficient consoles management for today's enterprise. The product provides automatic detection and response to a wide variety of system events. CONTROL-O is accompanied by numerous predefined console automation solutions that can be activated instantly while saving time and effort normally invested in coding these definitions.

• Interacts with all aspects of system management to gather operation data for driving decision-making processes
• Employs unique rule-based automation software to improve system availability, throughput and reliability while enhancing operator productivity
• Provides online rule definition through a user-friendly "fill-in-the-blanks" format not requiring knowledge of programming languages
• Allows operations personnel to easily define automation policies, thus dramatically reducing implementation & maintenance costs

The only job restart product that is actually an integral part of a production control system. When a job abends in the production environment, resolution must be swift and efficient. An automated job restart system is an insurance policy for operations productivity, making production job restarts and reruns viable, error-free, non-crisis events.

• Integrates directly with CONTROL-M^®, constituting a complete production control and job restart solution
• Provides unique automation methods that extend the level of restart capability
• Offers the ability to handle complex restart scenarios
• Eliminates additional manual procedures not addressed with other job restart products

Provides IT organizations with a unified management umbrella that enables automated simplified management of all enterprise security systems from a central point of control.

• A proven solution with broadest agent variety.
• Highly flexible and customizable solution.
• Most recognized solution on the market by analysts and decision-makers.
• Broadest integration with e-business applications

Central security management platform, managing the Resident Security Systems (RSSs) of platforms, systems and applications. A dedicated CONTROL-SA/Agent is developed for each RSS. When CONTROL-SA/Agents are not developed, the CONTROL-SA/Links product from BMC Software can work as a powerful extension of CONTROL-SA's scope of management. CONTROL-SA/Links allows the central security manager to maintain direct and dynamic online contact with all security entities throughout the organization.

• A highly flexible and customizable solution.
• Most recognized solution on the market today by both analysts and decision-makers.
• Most extensive range of integration with e-business applications.
• CONTROL-SA is the only proven solution with broadest agent variety.

Eliminates the hassles encountered by end users in handling and remembering multiple passwords. CONTROL-SA/PassPort, as part of the integrated INCONTROL for Security Management product family, provides the end user with one primary enterprise password. Through CONTROL-SA/PassPort's intuitive Web-browser-based interface, end users are able to execute periodic password change as needed.

• Flexible challenge/response mechanism.
• User-friendly web interfaced solution.
• The only self-service password solution that crosses so many diverse computing systems.

Provides a fast, browser-based method for managing the process of approving user access requests. This powerful cross-platform solution automates and streamlines authorization, reducing approval turnaround time and allowing requests to be tracked. By shortening the response cycle, CONTROL-SA/WorkFlow eliminates the hidden costs associated with lost productivity, brought on by an often prolonged, inefficient access-approval process.

• Leverages security management to a complete security solution.
• Provides a user-friendly, Web-based GUI.
• Provides tracking and monitoring capabilities, ensuring a paper-free process.

Provides tape management that reaches beyond the basic functions of monitoring tape usage and storage. The product is a removable media management system that maximizes media and robotic utilization and maximizes tape library efficiency.

• Increases the utilization of removable media and robotic libraries from an average of less than 30% to over 90% by employing unique batch and online stacking mechanisms
• Supplies a central point of control for enterprise-wide media and backup management
• Minimizes overhead and risk
• Transforms the manual tasks of operators and librarians into automated, streamlined procedures that eliminate errors and ensure data integrity

Automates and integrates all aspects of enterprise-wide output management to help you focus on business - not technology. This product eliminates human error, improves information throughput and maximizes resource use. With CONTROL-V, you can optimize the cost performance of the media and business process through indexing, archival and retrieval.

• Maximizes cost performance of media and business process through indexing, archival and retrieval.
• Optimizes storage use allowing for easy monitor processing and handling of corporate information
• Leverages existing investments by enabling media-independent archiving and life cycle migration