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BMC buys BladeLogic, eyes data center automation: BMC said Monday that it will buy BladeLogic, which specializes in automating data centers, for $800 million, or $28 a share. The news comes on the heels of a bevy of data center announcements from HP, which is hoping enterprises go for its data center as a...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, BladeLogic, Automation, Data Centers, Blade Servers, It Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, It service Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Quickly Pinpoint and Resolve Problems in Windows and .NET Applications: Whether you are developing Windows/.NET apps or supporting them, an automated problem resolution process will allow your organization to build more new functionality, execute more tests, accelerate the release of higher-quality applications, and resolve issues faster - all the while maintaining or reducing project costs.; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Windows, It Management, It service Management; White papers 2008-02-01
Can You Believe in ROI?: Demonstrating ROI is particularly important because most IT organizations are focusing their attention on becoming a source of business value, equal to other revenue-generating departments in the company. This approach requires a heightened focus on the value of every dollar IT spends, and the ability to describe value in terms...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, ROI, Demonstrating ROI, Roi/Tco, It Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It service Management; White papers 2007-12-03
Application Problem Resolution in a J2EE Environment: This paper explains how the BMC AppSight Problem Resolution System automates the problem resolution process in J2EE environments, and outlines the most common J2EE application problems.; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Problem Resolution, J2Ee, It Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, It service Management, Software; White papers 2007-12-01
Eliminate Hidden Processes that Sap Up to 40% of Developers' Time: Are time constraints pressuring your development, QA, and support resources to cut corners on software quality? If so, your company's not alone. According to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC Software, "...problem resolution is a major time-sink for developers and a drain on...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Developer, Problem Resolution, SAP AG, It Management, It service Management; Webcasts 2007-11-12

Forrester Consulting Case Study: The Business Case For Better Problem Resolution Processes: Are your development and testing teams unknowingly wasting time and resources on application problem resolution? Read this commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting in which 150 managers, directors, and VPs in charge of application development reveal how much time teams spend trying to diagnose problems--and the impact it can...; Tags: Business Case, BMC Software Inc., Team, Problem Resolution, Team Management, It Management, Software Development, Management, It service Management, Software/Web Development; White papers 2007-11-01
BMC acquires Emprisa Networks: BMC announced today the acquisition of Emprisa Networks, which provides automated network configuration, compliance and change management software. BMC had been partnering with Emprisa, and the Emprisa E-NetAware is part of BMC's new Service Automation solution, which deals with coordinating and running provisioning and updates; server and network configuration;...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., It Management, It service Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-10-08
Migrating to BMC Event Manager From IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console: BMC Event Manager has numerous advantages over Tivoli Enterprise Console in terms of ease of use, administration costs, and performance, and it provides a natural gateway into service impact management capabilities and service support integrations. More importantly, BMC is an obvious choice because the BMC Event Manager technology naturally fits...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Tivoli Enterprise, Console, IBM Corp., BMC Event Manager, It Management, It service Management; White papers 2007-10-08
BMC Best Practice Process Flow for Release Management: The Release Management process consists of four procedures. The first procedure is called "Request for Change Handling". It is used by the release managers to review the requests for change that have been passed to Release Management. The second procedure is called "Release Definition". This procedure is used by release...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Procedure, Best Practice, It Management, It service Management; White papers 2007-10-01
BMC Recovery Manager for Databases: Benchmark Study Performed at Sun Laboratories: IT organizations are faced with backing up an increasing amount of data from an environment that is growing rapidly in complexity and these backups have to perform in ever-shrinking windows. Finally, organization needs to recover data quickly, whenever users need it. BMC Recovery Manager for Databases provides blazing speed in...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Database, Sun Microsystems Inc., Backup, IT Organization, It Management, It service Management; White papers 2007-09-24
Five Ways to Reduce Costs for Batch Processing: IT has largely been forced to use upgrades to ensure they meet batch commitments. While this sometimes delivers timely results, it can also significantly increase costs and further erode the IT cost of ownership position. Fortunately, infrastructure management technology provides alternatives to upgrades; alternatives that deliver more consistent and better...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Upgrade, It Management, It Services, Strategy, It service Management, Management; White papers 2007-09-07
Open source systems management challenging incumbents: The 451 Group has issued a research report maintaining that BMC, HP, IBM and CA are "ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players. " Open source vendors covered in the 60-page report titled "Managing in the Open: The Next Wave of Systems Management" and written by...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General; Blog posts 2007-07-31
WHurley spins BMC into open source: WHurley spins BMC into open sourcefyi...I met whurley yesterday for the first time and here are some of my thougs about him and BMC...http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=111; Tags: IT Management, BMC Software Inc., WHurley, open source; Discussion threads 2007-07-27
WHurley spins BMC into open source: William Hurley, who goes by WHurley, has been an open source advocate and organizer for many years.When he left Qlusters recently for BMC Software, the Houston-based company which began with accounting software and grew like a snip of oilpatch, I wondered how far he could spin that company toward open source.The...; Tags: Strategy, management, Enterprise Policy, business models, BSD, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-27
Best Practices for Resolving Business-Critical Application Problems: Three Real-world Case Studies: This paper contains three (3) case studies that demonstrate how leading global companies in the banking, telecommunications, and healthcare industries are using best practices, and BMC AppSight, to improve developer productivity and reduce IT costs by resolving application problems significantly faster throughout the application lifecycle. BONUS! Download...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Best Practice, It Management, It service Management; Case studies 2007-07-01
Improve the Efficiency of Your Service Desk: Are you looking for ways to eliminate increasing IT service desk demands? Are you trying to enable users to resolve some of their more basic issues, including password reset, through user self-service? This paper examines the role of password management including support capabilities and solution economics, and demonstrates...; Tags: Service Desk, BMC Software Inc., Password Management, Password, Problem Management, It Management, It service Management; White papers 2007-06-04
New Focus on IT Management: Enterprise IT operations professionals are under increasing pressure to align their services with business processes and goals, help cut unnecessary costs, boost operating efficiency, and drive productivity and innovation. A Ziff-Davis/Strategy Group survey found that companies are not always able to facilitate effective business-IT communication, and that although the general...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., IT Administration, Information Technology, It Management, Strategy, It service Management, Management; White papers 2007-05-08
A Lifecycle Approach to Software Quality - Venturing Beyond the QA Imperative: This paper outlines a holistic approach to optimizing software quality across the application lifecycle with BMC AppSight. Several case study examples are included to demonstrate how innovative companies have leveraged problem resolution technologies to reduce development & testing costs significantly, and promote quality throughout the application lifecycle.; Tags: Software, BMC Software Inc., QA, It Management, It service Management; White papers 2007-05-07
An ISV's Guide to Achieving Business Advantage through Faster Application Problem Resolution: There's no debate that software errors are costly. But when software is your business, the impact of application problems can be devastating. This paper presents 3 case studies that demonstrate how leading ISVs are optimizing application development processes with application problem resolution technology to gain a competitive advantage.; Tags: Software, BMC Software Inc., ISV, Tools & Techniques, It Management, Software Development, Management, It service Management, Software/Web Development; White papers 2007-05-07
Meeting the Challenge of Service Request Management: Enterprises are looking to technology to help them streamline their service request and fulfillment processes end to end. BMC Software is helping customers in this area by extending its Business Service Management (BSM) solutions to include the management of service requests. The BMC solution - BMC Service Request Management -...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Solution, It Management, It service Management; White papers 2007-04-25

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