IBM Launches Program to Migrate Mercury Interactive Customers to IBM Software

are faced with the high cost and the complex nature of developing and deploying software. Typical testing processes are too slow to keep pace with today's rapid development environment and customers faced with rising IT costs are demanding a more integrated approach. By governing the software development and deployment process, clients can reduce IT costs and improve management capabilities and quality, while ensuring their enterprise applications perform and scale to meet market demands.

IBM Rational client Ohio Casualty, the 47th largest property/casualty insurance group in the United States, writes auto, home and business insurance policies through approximately 3,500 independent agencies across the country. Faced with obvious business implications if a breakdown occurred in their software development process, Ohio Casualty required a solution that would help govern their software development and deployment processes and minimize IT costs.

"Our goal was to improve the quality of our software applications by implementing a standardized software development process that is supported by industry leading tools," said Mark Robinson, Assistant Vice President of Information Systems Administration Unit, Ohio Casualty. "With IBM Rational testing products and the IBM Rational Unified Process methodologies that we have implemented, we have been very successful in doing that cost-effectively."

"IBM clients are continually innovating. To stay on top of the market while juggling compliance mandates, our clients recognize the quality of software developed and deployed to the marketplace, and the automation of IT processes to align with business goals, is incredibly important," said Scott Hebner, vice president, marketing and strategy, Rational Software, IBM. "IBM's market leading offerings help our clients develop quality software and manage their IT infrastructure while integrating quality management across the software development lifecycle."

Today's news builds on IBM's leadership in helping customers govern their software and systems. IBM was recently named the worldwide market share leader in the application development and project and portfolio management software marketplace based on total software revenue for 2005 for the fifth consecutive year, according to independent analyst firm Gartner Inc. According to the report, IBM was the leading market share vendor in total software revenue in 2005, more than double the market share of its nearest competitor. In addition, according to IDC, IBM was the 2005 worldwide market share leader in software used to manage system performance and the response of systems to events such as server failures or security breaches.

For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/support/migrations or http://www.programmers.com/ibm.

*Hewlett Packard recently announced a definitive agreement to purchase Mercury Interactive.

Contact: Leigh Ann Schmidt IBM Media Relations 1-914-766-1362 leighanns@us.ibm.com

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