The Partnership: Unify and BMC Software Client/server computing offers a significant number of competitive advantages to business organizations today, including the ability to provide enterprise-wide, real-time access to rapidly changing business data. Effectively managing heterogeneous client/server applications has, however, traditionally posed an equal number of significant administrative challenges. To address these challenges, Unify and BMC Software are delivering highly complementary, best-of-breed solutions to the complex management requirements of client/server computing. These are solutions that deliver a comprehensive, enterprise-wide management view>from the applications and databases to the underlying resources. These are automated solutions that can dramatically increase application availability and performance while reducing costs associated with administrative overhead and training.
"Unify's AppMan is a prototypical application management architecture and it deserves serious consideration"	The Solution Unify VISION, an advanced application development environment, and Unify AppMan, a set of agents that automate the process of building managed applications, work together to provide a robust environment for the development of management-enabled applications. Within this environment, developers can quickly create applications with built-in access for management control.
John R. Rymer Giga Information Group
" The integration of Unify VISION and BMC PATROL substantially eases the task of building management-ready applications for our customers "	The integration of BMC PATROL and the Unify products means that AppMan agents can now collect management data from applications developed in the VISION environment and then pass those events on to PATROL. Administrators using PATROL and the Knowledge Module for Unify VISION can then view these application-specific metrics, such as end-to-end transaction response time, to quickly identify and correct potential problems. PATROL and the Unify products work together to take the time-consuming detective work out of application management, allowing administrators to focus on other mission-critical activities.
Leland Putterman Vice President of Worldwide Marketing BMC Software
Benefits Collect application, database and system performance information and tune resources for optimum performance Overcome system downtime, budget overruns, and production failures through proactive management: - real time recognition of potential problems - ability to react to information Meet service level agreements through direct application performance information Cost effectively tune and enhance the capabilities of your system automatically Efficiently use IT staff by providing the vital information they need to do their job	PATROL also provides proactive management capabilities, automatically correcting many administrative issues before they affect user productivity. By eliminating many routine tasks, and by implementing automated recovery actions, PATROL helps administrators maintain their client/server environments for peak performance and availability. PATROL, Form BMC Software PATROL is the industry-leading suite of enterprise-management products from BMC Software. Using patent-pending Intelligent Autonomous Agents and loadable libraries of product-specific information called Knowledge Modules, PATROL provides automated management and monitoring functions for the widest range of client/server applications, databases and underlying resources across the largest environments.