"We have the opportunity to integrate [various tools] with one vendor [and] the capability for a graphical representation for everything in the CMDB," he said.

Mary Kay is managing about 825 servers along with 350 network nodes, he said.

While management tools are not completely able to erase the divisions between business processes and IT systems, BMC products are helping monitor and discover what system components are needed for a business process, such as an e-commerce application, he said. Pricing was not released for the new products, except for Enterprise Manager, which is priced at $100,000, plus $10 per managed desktop.

Also today, CA Inc.'s Wily Technology division in Islandia, N.Y., announced Introscope 7 for monitoring and optimizing the performance of business-critical Web applications.

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. in White Plains, N.Y., plans to adopt the new version this summer, said Keith Kelly, vice president of Web technology at the hotel chain.