Boole & Babbage Delivers End-to-End Availability Management Reach to TME 10; Tivoli customers benefit from Boole & Babbage enterprise automation technology.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 1996--Boole & Babbage, Inc. (NASDAQ: BOOL) today renewed its participation in Tivoli System's 10/Plus Association, with a commitment to further enhance integration between its end-to-end enterprise availability management solution and TME 10, Tivoli's network computing management solution.

By linking technologies from both companies, organizations will gain unprecedented levels of availability with a solution that scales to every enterprise.

"Increased availability management of applications spanning diverse technologies continues to be the key objective for optimizing the large-scale enterprise," said Jack Brown, senior director, distributed systems management products at Boole & Babbage. "By combining enterprise-level products like COMMAND/POST and TME 10, customers have a solution that seamlessly integrates TME 10 with all the technologies and platforms that it doesn't monitor. They can achieve their objective of managing availability of every element in the enterprise from a central point of control."

Boole & Babbage has already completed substantial development work that has given customers multiple levels of integration between COMMAND/POST and the market leading network managers, including TME NetView, TME 10 NetView for MVS, HP OpenView and Sun Microsystem's Solstice. In addition to message and map object sharing, application launching and event integration of networks and systems, customers benefit from the power of COMMAND/POST's automation engine, which correlates failures anywhere in the enterprise and administers corrective actions before computer outages occur.

"Boole & Babbage has proven technology for reaching into nonstandard platforms that exist outside the TME 10 product set, which is essential for enterprise level availability management," said Mike Pierce, manager, 10/Plus Association. "Boole & Babbage has also consistently demonstrated a high-standards approach to systems management product integration. The company is a valued addition to the 10/Plus Association."

Several Boole & Babbage customers have also purchased TME 10 management products and are finding synergy between COMMAND/POST and TME 10. "Sprint has successfully employed COMMAND/POST as its primary integration facility for managing availability of every application and device on its nationwide network," said Dave Karthauser, technology analyst at Sprint. "We plan to implement TME 10 to address additional management functions, including software distribution and client/server event management. In an effort to streamline and consolidate the management process at Sprint, we welcome the fact that our two strategic systems management vendors are furthering their integration efforts."

In addition, the renewed partnership between Boole & Babbage and Tivoli will foster integration between TME 10 and Boole & Babbage MainView systems management solution for mainframe and Parallel Sysplex environments. The MainView product line, which is based on the same architecture used by IBM to provide Single System Image views within the MVS environment, is integrated with TME 10 NetView for MVS. Through the integration with TME 10, customers will be able to extract data from MVS, IMS, CICS, DB2 and MQSeries environments.

"Boole & Babbage is also an established leader in Single System Image technology for managing both traditional and complex Parallel Sysplex environments," added Pierce. "Our desire is to merge this technology with TME 10 products, giving our customers connectivity to the broadest range of systems that need to be managed."

Boole & Babbage is the worldwide leader in availability, performance and storage management solutions for distributed systems. Its Enterprise Automation solution set manages application availability from end-to-end, maximizing uptime and reducing operational costs for even the most complex IT enterprises. Through advanced interoperability with leading frameworks and a flexible architecture easily scaled to customer requirements, Boole & Babbage products provide a comprehensive systems management and automation solution for all computers, networks and applications -- from the mainframe to the desktop. -0-

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