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CUSTOMER WIN: CompuCom Taps BMC Software to Drive Greater Strategic Business Value from the Cloud

DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 22, 2012 — CompuCom Systems, Inc., the leading IT outsourcing specialist, has selected BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC), the global leader in enterprise IT management, to help an array of joint customers realize and accelerate the strategic business benefits of cloud computing.

“In a world where every business event is an IT event, cloud computing is more than an IT strategy – it is a business strategy," said Kia Behnia, BMC's chief technology officer.  "As customers migrate business applications and services to a cloud delivery model, it is critically important to stay focused on the business imperatives and not 'get lost' in the IT.  Working together, BMC and CompuCom will increase the strategic business value of cloud computing and the speed with which customers can achieve it."

For 25 years, CompuCom has been a trusted guide for customers around the world seeking to better align IT with its business mission.  BMC has shared that priority and focus, culminating in the highly successful Business Service Management (BSM) platform and industry-leading Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM) and BMC Cloud Operations Management solution.  

“BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and BMC Cloud Operations Management allow us to deliver a complete, mature solution resulting in accurate chargeback, self-service provisioning, dynamic workload reallocation and bursting to public cloud environments,” stated John Conner, senior vice president, ITO service and cloud sales for CompuCom.  

“We believe the strong credentials and cultural fit of our two organizations will bring significant benefits to clients who want to change the way they do the business of IT,” said Ed Anderson, CompuCom’s chief strategy officer.

As cloud adoption grows from initial implementations to broad business use, BMC can shoulder the burden of production workloads. To facilitate a complete cloud service lifecycle, BMC presents end-users with a straightforward “shopping cart” portal and provisions complete, configurable applications. The result is a cloud where everything is intelligently placed and governed according to policies within the environment.

Integrated seamlessly with BMC Cloud Operations Management, BMC CLM ensures that the cloud is both built for strength and operated for efficiency and service quality.

For more information about BMC Cloud Solutions and BSM platform, please visit:

• BMC Business Service Management
• BMC Cloud Operations Management
• Access the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Community
• Follow @BMCSoftware on Twitter
• Become a fan of BMC on Facebook

Business Runs on IT. IT Runs on BMC Software.

Business runs better when IT runs at its best. That's why more than 20,000 IT organizations – from the Global 100 to the smallest businesses – in over 120 countries rely on BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) to manage their business services and applications across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments. With the leading Business Service Management platform, Cloud Management, and the industry’s broadest choice of IT management solutions, BMC helps customers cut costs, reduce risk and achieve business objectives. For the four fiscal quarters ended June 30, 2012, BMC revenue was approximately $2.2 billion.

Intuit Unveils Innovation on Main Street

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Intuit Unveils Innovation on Main Street

Company Showcases Newly Announced Mobile and Cloud-based Services That Simplify the Business of Life

NEW YORK – Mar. 30, 2012 – Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) brought innovation to life, spotlighting several newly announced products that reflect its commitment to make the business of life easier, and more efficient, while creating better financial outcomes for consumers and small businesses.

The products starred in a series of lifelike vignettes that included dozens of mobile and cloud-based offerings at the company’s Innovation Gallery Walk. The scenarios demonstrated the simplicity of paying taxes on a smartphone, helping small businesses get funded and creating health benefit plans for employees, among other tasks.

“Technology is fulfilling its promise to make life easier, and we have a real opportunity to make a difference,” said Brad Smith, Intuit’s president and chief executive officer. “Our innovation pipeline is flowing faster than ever as our employees continue to deliver on that promise and on Intuit’s mission to profoundly improve people’s financial lives.”

Intuit started small in 1983 with Quicken personal finance software, which sought to simplify a common household dilemma – balancing the family checkbook. Today, the company’s products touch more than 50 million financial lives with a robust product lineup of complexity-conquering solutions for small businesses, consumers, healthcare providers, financial institutions and overseas markets. 

Real Products, Real Surroundings

The vignettes included slice-of-life scenarios that displayed products in the settings where customers use them, including an apartment loft for consumer offerings; a park for on-the-go-businesses; a florist shop for established businesses; and an outdoor café for on-the-go consumers. In addition, vignettes spanned continents to show Intuit offerings in the United Kingdom and India.

Building Blocks for Budding Businesses

The small business vignettes featured products that take entrepreneurs creating new-to-the-world businesses from idea to up-and-running and on-the-go, including:

• Intuit Loan Finder, guiding entrepreneurs on a path to “yes” when seeking short-term cash or long-term financing. It carries an approval rate of 70 percent, twice the national average.
• Intuit Health Debit Card, an affordable way for small businesses to give employees health coverage without complicated health plans and deductibles. It lets employers set aside pretax dollars in a Health Reimbursement Account debit card that employees can use to cover costs such as doctor’s visits and prescriptions.
• Intuit Tax Online Mobile, the first commercial mobile app from Intuit’s Accounting Professionals Division, gives accounting professionals anytime, anywhere access to client’s tax information. This shortens the process of answering clients’ questions and checking an e-file status from one day to 30 seconds.
• Intuit PaymentNetwork, which helps small businesses receive payments simply and affordably online. This can shorten the time small businesses wait to get paid, currently estimated at 48 days.
• Intuit Partner Platform, which expands the power of QuickBooks through third-party applications. The platform unveiled Intuit Anywhere, a way for developers to reach millions of small business customers and build QuickBooks data integration directly into their Web and mobile apps.
  
  
  
   

Smart Financial Choices Within Arm?s Reach

The consumer lineup showcased products that help people manage finances everywhere, from the comfort of home to the local park or café, including:

• Mobile Banking with Purchase Rewards, which helps consumers bank, shop and save while on the go. Online and mobile banking customers save money through discounts offered by merchants they already know, without having to deal with the hassle of coupons.
• MicroMint on WIMM, a concept product that allows people to check their account balances on a wristwatch-sized micro-Android device.
  
  
   

Managing and Organizing Health and Wealth

In addition, other featured products help people to simply manage the day-to-day necessities of life, including:

• Intuit Health Patient Portal, which ensures the doctor is always “in” by improving doctor-patient interactions through an online, and now mobile, service. Patients can do everything at their convenience, from making appointments to refilling prescriptions with just a few clicks, eliminating phone tag and making doctor’s offices more efficient.
• Weave, a mobile app that organizes everything from daily activities to expenses and income on a mobile phone.

By harnessing the power of big data for the little guy, Intuit has developed new analytical products and services geared toward consumers and small businesses alike. This information helps answer critical questions of how their spending patterns, expenses and revenue compares to others like them, and includes:

• Mint Consumer Spending Insights, which aggregates anonymous data from Mint users on consumers’ spending patterns and will be the foundation for a formal consumer spending index in the future.
• Intuit Small Business Revenue Index, which provides an early look at one of the first indicators of aggregated and anonymous information on current monthly small business revenue overall and by industry. It will complement the monthly Intuit Small Business Employment Index by providing a more complete picture of the health of U.S. small businesses.
   

Exporting Innovation, Strengthening Business

As part of Intuit’s strategy to expand its geographic footprint and tap into new markets, vignettes also displayed products available in the United Kingdom and India, including:

• MyBizTracker, a mobile app that makes it easier for U.K. small businesses to keep their finances in check while on-the-go. Among other features, it helps businesses keep track of and see a running total of income, expenses and balances, capture and store photo records of invoices, bills and receipts, and helps to avoid penalties with tax deadline reminders.
• Fasal, which uses text messaging to create an information marketplace and help farmers get the best prices for their produce. On average, farmers receive up to 20 percent more money at market.

Further information about all Intuit products is available at www.intuit.com.

About Intuit Inc.

Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries® and Lacerte® are Intuit's leading tax preparation offerings for professional accountants. Intuit Financial Services helps banks and credit unions grow by providing on-demand solutions and services that make it easier for consumers and businesses to manage their money.

Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of $3.9 billion in its fiscal year 2011. The company has approximately 8,000 employees with major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India and other locations. More information can be found at www.intuit.com.

News Release from IBM - Cloud Services Management

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IMImobile Deploys IBM Software to Enhance Its Cloud Services Management

Implements IBM SmartCloud Foundation to augment carrier-class service level management

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LAS VEGAS - 06 Mar 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that IMImobile, a global mobile data technology infrastructure and solutions provider to telecom operators, media companies and enterprises has deployed IBM software to enhance its existing service and cloud infrastructure management processes.

IMImobile is a leading provider of cloud-based mobile data services for revenue generation and customer lifecycle management across Asia, Europe, Americas, Africa and the Middle East, With its services reaching over 900 million people in 64 countries and with operator customers like Vodafone, O2,Telefonica, France Telecom, Centrica, Barclays Bank, BBC, Aircel, Airtel, BSNL, MTN, Reliance, Tata and Virgin Mobile, the company required a cloud solution that would help answer its growing business requirements. 

The recently completed deployment of IBM SmartCloud Foundation software will help IMImobile further streamline management of its cloud services infrastructure, strengthen compliance with stringent service level agreements (SLAs), improve infrastructure utilization and evolve process maturity with compliance. Further, IBM software will help IMImobile implement a follow-the-sun model for service management across IMI’s Virtual Network Operations Centre (VNOC) teams spread in Europe and India. 

Vishwanath Alluri, Founder and CEO of IMImobile said, “We have adopted a cloud-based delivery model since our inception. All our products and platform are architected for the cloud. Today our infrastructure comprises 1,000 high-end servers and 300+ network equipment nodes deployed both within our data centres and operator networks worldwide. With the adoption of IBM software, our customers stand to benefit from the improved operational efficiencies and service levels. We will also be able to leverage IBM’s global expertise to offer enhanced service levels for the mission critical services we deliver to blue-chip customers, which include mobile operators, media companies and enterprises.”  

“IBM has been providing clients with a holistic approach to delivering and managing infrastructure services aligned to evolving business priorities,” said Scott Hebner, vice president, IBM Software. “IMImobile’s cloud-based delivery and the scale of infrastructure demonstrate the impressive power of cloud computing."

IBM SmartCloud Foundation software solutions are helping clients effectively build and manage dynamic infrastructure and remain competitive in today’s digitally-connected environment. The software offers integrated service management solutions to help companies manage traditional IT assets, physical assets and emerging “smart” assets.  

About IMImobile 

IMImobile is a specialist provider of mobile data infrastructure and software to operators and enterprises globally. IMImobile's DaVinci Service Platform has been developed over the last 10 years and delivers services to over 100 blue chip companies and 80 leading operators in over 60 countries. 

IMImobile has pioneered a cloud based service delivery model from inception and delivers carrier grade SLAs and 24/7 support from its virtual network operation centers (VNOC). The company's platform and infrastructure comprising 1000 high-end servers deployed both within data centers and carrier networks are remotely setup and managed from the VNOC. 

IMImobile's innovative platform transforms the operator network into a programmable resource to deliver advanced content, services and capabilities to mobile subscribers. This "open mobile marketplace" allows developers to use the IMI platform and its API infrastructure to create the next generation of revenue streams for operators and enable enterprises and media companies create innovative services. IMImobile has also built on top of this platform a suite of consumer lifecycle solutions that allow operators and enterprises to drive revenue generation, self-care, customer acquisition, customer retention and audience engagement through the mobile device. 

IMI is well established in Europe, MEA and India region. Customers include Airtel, BSNL, Aircel, Vodafone, O2, MTN, France Telecom, Zain, Tigo, Centrica, Barclays Bank, BBC, Ford, Mahindra & Mahindra and the AA. 

For more information please visit, www.imimobile.com  

About IBM Cloud Computing

IBM has helped thousands of clients adopt cloud models and manages millions of cloud based transactions every day. IBM assists clients in areas as diverse as banking, communications, healthcare and government to build their own clouds or securely tap into IBM cloud-based business and infrastructure services. IBM is unique in bringing together key cloud technologies, deep process knowledge, a broad portfolio of cloud solutions, and a network of global delivery centers. For more information about cloud offerings from IBM, visithttp://www.ibm.com/smartcloud.  Follow us on Twitter at @ibmcloud.

News Release from Nuance

Leaders in Healthcare Partner with Nuance for Enterprise-Wide Clinical Speech Recognition Solutions

Proven Results and Expanded Portfolio Capabilities Drive Customer Adoption; HIMSS 2012 to Showcase Advancements to Voice, Clinical Language Understanding, and Mobile Solutions from Nuance

LAS VEGAS, HIMSS 2012, Booth #3523, February, 21, 2012 – From HIMSS 2012, Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) announces preeminent new healthcare customers and expanded deployments of its industry-leading, clinical speech recognition solutions. Supporting the needs and preferences of more than 450,000 healthcare providers across more than 10,000 institutions, Nuance’s healthcare portfolio of voice and clinical language understanding (CLU) solutions continues to be recognized as industry standard for the high-quality capture and intelligent use of clinical information.

Nuance’s healthcare portfolio holds multiple top-ranked positions within the 2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report including eScription, which has been #1 within the speech recognition category for eight consecutive years,Dragon Medical Practice Edition and PowerScribe 360 Reporting.

“Nuance has a proven track record in speech recognition. Their longstanding success is nearly unmatched across the industry, with eScription winning eight consecutive Best in KLAS Awards,” said Adam Gale, President of KLAS.  “Over the past several years, KLAS has watched Nuance acquire, develop and deliver technologies that continue to automate the clinical documentation information lifecycle. Customers are excited to share the impact and return on investment these solutions are having on the clinical documentation process. As the need to turn disparate medical data into actionable information rise, we expect to see provider demand for natural language processing or Clinical Language Understanding solutions to also grow. This creates an exciting opportunity for Nuance.”

Joining the company of leaders in healthcare around the world, organizations including Banner Health, Carle Foundation Hospital and Physician Group, Carolinas Healthcare System, Catholic Health Partners, Lafayette General Medical Center, Lancaster General Health, Martin Health System, Norton Healthcare, Providence Health Plans, Radiologic Associates, PC, Roper St. Francis Healthcare, Saint Charles Health System, Saint Francis Hospital and Health Centers, Samaritan Health Services, Singing River Health System, The Valley Hospital, Via Christi Health and UCSF Medical Center have all partnered with Nuance to empower their clinicians to document care by simply speaking. Through the delivery of clinical speech recognition solutions and Nuance Transcription Services, Nuance is helping to make physicians more productive as part of the clinical documentation process, resulting in better quality notes, improved use of electronic health record (EHR) systems, and efficiency gains that drive cost savings for the healthcare enterprise.

Voice of Customer Testimonials

“In December, we expanded Dragon Medical across our healthcare enterprise, enabling 260 providers access to voice-driven, real-time documentation as part of the Epic EHR workflow,” said Ed Collins, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Martin Health System. “Dragon Medical has proved to be an invaluable tool for our clinicians. In fact, the ongoing requests for Dragon Medical continue and we expect will expand to our nursing staff. With Dragon Medical, we’ve been able to reduce the cost of medical transcription by two-thirds in the first 60 days, our medical record turnaround time has gone from 24 hours+ to being instantaneous, our physicians can leverage voice-powered shortcuts to be more productive, and the quality of our notes has increased dramatically.”

“We deployed Dragon Medical to over 150 providers across our physicians’ offices and because of the success we achieved there, will extend Dragon Medical enterprise-wide across our hospitals,” said Michael Ripchinski, MD, medical director, clinical informatics at Lancaster General Health.  “In Nuance, we see more than a partner for voice recognition; we’re also intrigued by their progress and innovation in Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technologies.  Through ongoing work with Nuance, we’re committed to leveraging voice-driven solutions to optimize the way we document within the EHR, and will explore ways to better access and interact with our data with CLU-powered solutions.” 

Nuance’s voice-enabled, clinical understanding solutions empower healthcare organizations to capture structured and unstructured clinical data anytime, anywhere with limited disruption to clinical workflow. Whether a doctor is capturing information from a laptop, desktop, telephone, through a transcriptionist or through a mobile device, with Nuance Healthcare solutions, the whole patient story can be captured.

Please visit Nuance Healthcare at booth #3523 to gain insight into the full portfolio of voice and clinical language understanding solutions. Product demonstrations will be available throughout HIMSS12. You can also follow Nuances’ insight at HIMSS12 via Twitter, @NUAN_Healthcare or visit this link for more detail: http://www.nuance.com/landing-pages/healthcare/HIMSS2012/ .

Nuance Healthcare

Nuance Healthcare, a division of Nuance Communications, is the market leader in providing clinical understanding solutions that accurately capture and transform the patient story into meaningful, actionable information.  Thousands of hospitals, providers and payers worldwide trust Nuance voice-enabled clinical documentation and analytics solutions to facilitate smarter, more efficient decisions across the healthcare enterprise.  These solutions are proven to increase clinician satisfaction and HIT adoption, supporting organizations to achieve Meaningful Use of EHR systems and transform to the accountable care model.  Recognized as “Best-in-KLAS” 2004-2011 for Voice Recognition we invite you to learn more, http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/index.htm.

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