BMC SOFTWARE TO DELIVER PATROL APPLICATION MANAGEMENT MODULE FOR ARBOR
SOFTWARE'S ESSBASE

AUTOMATED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT SOLUTION EASES CROSS-ENTERPRISE DEPLOYMENT
OF OLAP SERVER

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., FEBRUARY 12, 1996 - Arbor Software (Nasdaq:ARSW), a
leading provider of client/server software for business planning, analysis
and management reporting today announced an agreement with BMC Software
that will provide automated application management capabilities for
Essbase, Arbor's multidimensional database server.

BMC Software will link the PATROL product, the industry leading application
management solution, with Essbase to facilitate the management of
enterprise-wide On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications. Common
Essbase database and application management tasks such as resource
monitoring, database recovery, and performance optimization will be
automated by PATROL. Essbase service levels will be maximized, providing
increased user productivity, greater applications availability and faster
response times.

PATROL KNOWLEDGE MODULE FOR ESSBASE

The PATROL KM for Essbase contains a rule base of information about
managing Essbase databases. The rule base is implemented by the PATROL
agent which can then monitor, manage, and take corrective action for
Essbase databases and applications in a managed environment. The contents
of the PATROL KM for Essbase rule base were jointly specified by Arbor,
BMC Software and Essbase users.

"More than 550 major corporations are using Essbase for management-critical
OLAP applications," said Kirk Cruikshank, Arbor's vice president of
marketing. "We are pleased that BMC Software has recognized Arbor's market
and technology leadership and has selected Essbase to be the first OLAP
server managed by PATROL."

"The PATROL KM for Essbase will bring tremendous benefits to Essbase
users," said Leland Putterman, vice president of worldwide marketing for
BMC Software. "PATROL will effectively automate the management of Essbase
OLAP applications, and will continuously optimize Essbase performance."

ABOUT ESSBASE

Essbase is used for planning and analysis applications which require a
defined analytical structure, consolidated actual, projected and derived
data, multi-user, read/write data access and consistently fast response
time regardless of database size. Essbase operates effectively within a
data warehousing strategy or as a standalone, departmental solution.
Essbase operates on servers running Windows NT, OS/2 and UNIX across all
major networks connected to Windows, Macintosh and UNIX clients.

ABOUT PATROL

The PATROL product suite from BMC Software automates and centralizes the
control of all the critical elements in distributed application management
including data, databases, servers and applications. PATROL consists of
intelligent agent(s), management console(s), and Knowledge Modules (KMs).
KMs are encapsulated expertise about how to manage objects in the
environment. KMs provide the agent with more product-specific information,
allowing a single agent to manage all the components and objects
associated with a server.

AVAILABILITY AND PRICING

The PATROL Knowledge Module for Essbase is planned for availability in the
second half of calendar 1996. It will be sold and supported by BMC
Software. Pricing for PATROL KM for Essbase begins at $1000 depending on
the quantity and server size.

ABOUT BMC SOFTWARE

BMC Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:BMCS) is a worldwide developer and vendor of
more than 100 software solutions for automating application and data
management across host-based and open systems environments. Pursuing its
strategy to develop Cooperative Enterprise Management Solutions, BMC
Software is partnering with complementary vendors to leverage the
company's 16 years of experience in the management and movement of data to
deliver tightly integrated management solutions across the enterprise.
With annual revenues in excess of $340 million, BMC Software is the
world's 12th largest independent software vendor and is headquartered in
Houston, Texas.

ABOUT ARBOR SOFTWARE

Arbor Software Corporation (Nasdaq:ARSW) develops and markets client/server
software for business planning, analysis and management reporting. Arbor's
products are used by more than 550 corporations spanning a broad range of
industries and business applications including Bank of Boston, Emery
Worldwide, Fidelity, Intel, Los Angeles Times, Neutrogena, Pennzoil,
PEPSICO, Prudential and Sears. Arbor has over 80 application, services,
tools and platform partners, including Comshare, Hewlett- Packard, IBM and
Microsoft. Arbor's products are sold direct, as well as through system
integrators and VARs worldwide. Arbor's offices are located in Atlanta,
Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale,
Washington D.C. and London. More information on Arbor products and
services can be found on Arbor's World Wide Web (WWW) site at
http://www.arborsoft.com.

Contact:

Joanna McMillan
Arbor Software Corporation
(408) 541-4035
jmcmillan@arborsoft.com

Lisa Cradit
BMC Software
(713) 918-8800
lisa_cradit@ccmail.bmc.com
 
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