Actuate and BMC Software Announce Strategic OEM Agreement.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000 BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Integrates Actuate with PATROL(R) for Performance Management for Enhanced Delivery of Business Information Against Service Level Agreements Actuate(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTU ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions ACTU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri) ACTU Association of Catholic Trade Unionists ACTU Australian Capital Territory Union ), the leader in e.Reporting(TM) for e.Business, today announced a strategic OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement with BMC Software, Inc. (Nadaq:BMCS BMCS Bristol Muslim Cultural Society (UK) BMCS Senior Chief Boatswain's Mate (Naval Rating) BMCS Blue Mountains Conservation Society (Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia) ), the leading provider of e-business systems management software. As stated in the agreement, BMC Software is integrating Actuate's solution for generating and delivering business critical systems performance and availability information over the Internet with BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. Software's PATROL Performance Manager, a product within its recently introduced PATROL for Performance Management family, which provides current and historic performance analysis of business-critical systems and applications. Actuate technology is used in PATROL Performance Manager to publish systems and application availability and performance information to the Web, thereby ensuring optimized communication of service level agreements. The content delivered by Actuate is both text and graph-based as well as interactive and actionable, and when used by BMC Software customers will facilitate enhanced communication within an organization. "The use of Actuate as the systems availability and performance information delivery solution within our product enables customers to maximize return on investments through optimized use of system resources (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. ," said David Wagner
Actuate has seen its OEM business increase significantly in the last year, with revenue from packaged application vendors accounting for more than 30 percent of total company earnings in FY1999. BMC Software joins a group of 70-plus leading Internet firms presently reselling the Actuate information delivery solution. Other packaged application resellers whose e-business products include Actuate are Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Ariba, Clarify, Comergent, InterWorld and Siebel. Actuate is a comprehensive solution for publishing operational business data to the Web in the form of rich, interactive pages. Actuate deployment products enable administrators to configure the automatic updating and secure distribution of this content to site users, whether there are 10 or 10,000. Actuate's viewing facilities enable users to access rich, personalized, interactive content that is seamlessly integrated with a Web site from a pure browser environment. The most sophisticated information delivery solution available today, Actuate automates the generation of high-value, structured business information and delivers it as a seamlessly integrated component of your e-business Web site. The PATROL for Performance Management family of products provide the ability to understand how business applications are performing historically, today, as well as predict how they will perform in the future. Built on the essential foundation of complete and efficient data collection and simplified operations, PATROL allows users to accurately measure, manage and improve system and application performance. The PATROL for Performance Management products for Unix and Windows 2000 integrate seamlessly to provide the only complete performance analysis and capacity management solution across distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. environments. About BMC Software One of the world's largest independent software vendors, BMC Software delivers the most comprehensive e-business systems management software with the fastest guaranteed implementation. This Service Assurance(TM) strategy enhances the availability, performance and recoverability of companies' business-critical applications. Companies can use this management methodology to demonstrate their ability to deliver optimal service to their customers and partners by joining BMC Software OnSite(TM), a certification program which includes solution implementation and regular HealthChecks performed by BMC Software Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . BMC Software is a Forbes 500 company and a member of the S&P 500, with fiscal year 2000 revenues exceeding $1.7 billion. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the , with offices worldwide. For more information please visit BMC Software's Web site at www.bmc.com or call 800/841-2031 or 713/918-8800. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation has established e.Reporting as the practice of publishing high-value business information on a Web site for use by customers, partners and employees. e.Reporting enables a company to enhance its e.Business site -- beyond brochureware A Web site that advertises a product but contains only the equivalent of a paper brochure with no interactivity. The Web is not encumbered by the size of paper and offers the ability to show endless views and details of a product, make recommendations based on user input, download demos and transaction capabilities -- with post-transaction content such as client stock portfolio reports, client statements and performance metrics, for the purpose of creating a more loyal customer base. A critical component of the Internet infrastructure, Actuate powers e.Business sites for Global 2000 companies and Internet start-ups including Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Charles Schwab, American Express, Worldcom, US West, HotJobs.com and WebMD/Healtheon. Internet vendors reselling Actuate include Ariba, Aspect Development, BMC Software, Clarify, PeopleSoft and Siebel. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., and has offices worldwide. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at www.actuate.com. Note to Editors: Actuate, Live Report Documents, Report Encyclopedia and ReportCast are registered trademarks of Actuate Corporation. e.Report, e.Reporting, Live Report Extensions, ReportBlast, SmartSearch, Transporter, Virtual Report Distribution and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Reports are trademarks of Actuate Corporation. All other products and corporate names referenced are trademarks of their respective companies. BMC Software, BMC OnSite, the BMC Software logos, and all other BMC Software product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. |
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