BMC Software in the News March 2008 BMC Answers HP With Big Acquisition In Software Market Investor’s Business Daily By Brian Womack March 17, 2008 BMC Takes on HP in Data Center Automation eWeek By Paula Musich March 17, 2008 BMC Snaps Up BladeLogic in Automation Push Reuters By Jim Finkle March 17, 2008 BMC Signs Purchase Agreement for BladeLogic OnStrategies By Tony Baer March 17, 2008 'Mainframe Renaissance' Sparks Growth Revival For BMC Investor's Business Daily By Brian Womack March 5, 2008 February 2008 Video Interview with BMC CEO Robert Beauchamp CNBC Closing Bell By Melissa Lee February 8, 2008 Features BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp BMC Software 3Q Profit Surges Associated Press By Staff February 7, 2008 HOUSTON - BMC Software Inc., which makes software to manage information technology systems, said Thursday its fiscal third-quarter earnings soared 40 percent on an increase in contract values. BMC Software Beats Estimates TheStreet.com By Ivy Lessner February 7, 2008 Updated from 5:05 p.m. EST SAN FRANCISCO - BMC Software (BMC - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) handily topped the Street's third-quarter expectations and guidance Thursday. January 2008 New mainframes: IT power is moving back to the centre FT.com By Alan Cane January 29 2008 BMC Software's William Hurley: A Penguin Among Sharks Computerworld By Todd R. Weiss January 27, 2008 BMC Software powers Nano India Business Standard January 26, 2008 APM Rolling Review: ProactiveNet InformationWeek By Michael Biddick January 22, 2008 Identity Management -- No Longer Just the Bouncer at the Door ebizQ By Bronna Shapiro January 21, 2008 You may remember the bouncer from your college days: the big guy who checks your ID at the door who determines whether you are who you claim to be and that you meet the criteria to enter (authentication and authorization in IT jargon) and if not, you get bounced. That's pretty much what identity management used to be -- the bouncer at the IT door; the guard at the IT gate. 10 Ways VARs and Vendors Give Back To the Community Channel Web Slideshow By Jennifer Bosavage January 14, 2008 December 2007 Beyond Disaster Recovery: Intelligent Automation and Business Continuity CIO.com By Ralph Crosby December 21, 2007 November 2007 BMC: No mainframe is an island (anymore) By Mark Fontecchio SearchDataCenter.com November 28, 2007 SearchDataCenter.com spoke with Crosby about mainframe silos, connecting business to IT on big iron, and how management of the mainframe and management of distributed systems is slowly converging. Three Holiday e-Commerce Misadventures to Avoid By Peter Armstrong, BMC Software ITworld.com November 28, 2007 Just when you’re thinking about taking some well-deserved time off work to enjoy the holidays with your family, you realize with frustration that you won’t be able to put your Blackberry down for even a minute. Your company had a big promotion throughout December and your Web site came crashing down because it couldn’t handle all the business. Q&A: BMC's William Hurley Talks Up Open Source By Todd Weiss Computerworld November 27, 2007 At 36 years old, William Hurley has been involved in IT for more than half his life, starting after a car accident that left him badly injured. While recovering, he began hacking X-objects for MacroMind and later Macromedia Director in the open-source multimedia community, then went to work at Apple Inc. and IBM, where he was a master inventor and senior manager of targeted Internet applications. Later, he joined a string of start-ups, including Qlusters Inc., where he was chief technology officer; Symbiot Inc., where he was a co-founder and CTO; and HireStorm Inc., where he was the founder and CTO. Q&A: BMC's William Hurley talks up open source Computerworld By Todd Weiss November 27, 2008 How to Get Started on ITIL By Sue Hildreth Computerworld November 26, 2007 In 2004, the Food Lion supermarket chain needed to automate its change management to help comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It decided to adopt ITIL’s change management processes, but initially it put aside the rest of the best-practices framework. BMC Brings it On Forbes.com By Ruthie Ackerman November 7, 2007 BMC simplifies log analysis for IBM IMS database By Mark Fontecchio SearchDataCenter.com November 5, 2007 BMC Software Inc. has introduced a new tool for IBM Corp.'s IMS database called Log Analyzer designed to sort through millions of log data items and unearth the source of a database problem more quickly. October 2007 Putting Harry into a Computer Australian IT By Stuart Kennedy’ October 30, 2007 BMC snaps up network configuration company Network World (Netherlands) By Denise Dubie October 8, 2007 Automation Heating Up In BMC Deal Investor’s Business Daily By Brian Womack October 8, 2007 BMC Software acquires Emprisa Networks Associated Press October 8, 2007 Pick up: Hemscott BMC Ups IT Service Management Ante eWEEK By Paula Musich October 5, 2007 BMC delivers automation software suite Network World By Denise Dubie October 5, 2007 September 2007 Taking the Pulse of Unigard with MAXM Database Advisor for IMS Product Review - DM Review Magazine September 2007 Issue BMC MAXM Database Advisor for IMS from BMC Software, Inc. Survey Says: Mainframe and SOA are Hot By Stephen Swoyer Enterprise Systems Journal September 11, 2007 Mainframe shops plan to expand their capacities and aggressively expose their Big Iron assets via service-oriented architectures. August 2007 Maintaining the Agile Mainframe Nights and weekends aren't what they used to be. By Ralph Crosby, CTO at BMC Software CIO August 24, 2007 Years ago, processing on the mainframe was fairly predictable. All day Monday you ran transactions, which peaked a couple times a day. Then you reconciled everything in big batch runs. July 2007 BMC makes its move into IT process automation By Denise Dubie Network World July 23, 2007 BMC last week announced it has acquired IT process automation vendor RealOps, and the timing couldn't be more perfect. June 2007 Delivering Power Without Interruption – BMC Log Master for DB2 Product Review - DM Review Magazine June 2007 Issue BMC Log Master for DB2 from BMC Software, Inc. Interview With BMC's Tom Bishop By Andrew Conry-Murray Network Computing June 11, 2007 The CTO of BMC Software talks about open-source management, CMDBs and making it possible to federate information from across different management repositories Case Study: BMC paves way for rapid growth at CARFAX, Inc. Contributed case study by BMC ITWorld June 6, 2007 Business Need: Increase IT efficiency and productivity through automation, thereby enabling the staff to support rapid growth, including an increasing volume of data, an expanding customer base, and the need for a larger, more complex IT infrastructure. Mainframes Under Fire Demonstrating big business value from the big box. By Ralph Crosby, CTO at BMC Software CIO June 04, 2007 As an IT professional responsible for your organization's mainframe computers, you've built an extremely reliable, high-performing, and secure computing environment. While your staff or your colleagues are wrestling with deploying ITIL processes on the distributed side of the IT infrastructure, you've already got mature, stable management processes in place on your mainframe. May 2007 BMC Partner Program Tackles Education and Enablement By John Hazard eWeek May 31, 2007 BMC Software has updated its Partner Network Program to encourage partners to invest in business service management expertise by providing a new certification for IT Service Management, improved product demonstration capabilities and early access to new products. BMC Updates Products with IT Operations in Mind By Denise Dubie Network World May 30, 2007 A few years back management software maker BMC started its journey toward automated IT service management with the introduction of its business services management strategy. BMC Buy Nips 'Behavior Problems' in the Bud By Clint Boulton, Internetnews.com May 29, 2007 BMC Software is looking to head off problems before they stymie business processes, agreeing to acquire software maker ProactiveNet for an undisclosed sum. BMC Posts Strong Fourth Quarter, Buys Analytics Vendor By Damon Poeter CRN May 29, 2007 BMC Software is looking to head off problems before they stymie business processes, agreeing to acquire software maker ProactiveNet for an undisclosed sum. BMC Advances BSM Initiative By Paula Musich eWEEK May 22, 2007 BMC Software will continue to push ahead on its Business Service Management strategy May 22, when it introduces the integration of several of its product offerings with its Configuration Management Database. April 2007 Mary Kay Gets IT Makeover By Hailey Lynne McKeefry eWeek Strategic Partner April 25, 2007 Maryville Technologies implements business service management capabilities. Mary Kay is in the beauty business, though the company's IT systems were anything but pretty not long ago. It was time for a makeover. March 2007 Q&A: Channel Executives Take on the 80/20 Rule By Lawrence M. Walsh VARBusiness March 19, 2007 Partner enablement is a term bandied about by vendor channel executives to reflect their goals and efforts to drive higher sales performance, revenue and profits of their solution providers. In a way, it's also a means to combat the 80/20 rule, in which 80 percent of channel revenue flows through 20 percent of the solution providers. Providing smaller and underperforming solution providers with more support and resources could change the ratio to 70/30 or greater. BMC Couples Patch Manager with eEye's Vulnerability Assessment Tool By Dave Kearns Network World's Identity Management Newsletter March 14, 2007 BMC adds vulnerability assessment capabilities to patch management tool. BMC Appoints Architect to Drive Open Source Strategy By Matthew Aslett ComputerWire March 13, 2007 Systems management vendor BMC Software Inc. has signaled its intention to develop an open source software strategy through the appointment of William Hurley as the chief architect of its open source strategy. A Prescription for Preventing Service Outages Configuration Management Databases Can Alert Managers to Dangerous Interactions By Jennifer Zaino FCW March 12, 2007 One of the most elusive aspects of overseeing information technology operations is understanding the effect of routine and not-so-routine system changes so you can minimize any disruptions in IT services. That challenge has become more difficult as IT architectures have grown in complexity. Newsmaker: What IT Really Needs to Learn about Tech By Charles Cooper CNET News.com March 9, 2007 If he could get a do-over, no sane computer executive would opt to return to the economic turbulence that marked the post-Internet bubble era. But there was one bright ray in that otherwise grim tech landscape: it marked the end of all those pipe dreams about what information technology could do for a corporation. IT as a Service: Taking Care of Business By Dan Tynan InfoWorld March 5, 2007 When the company recently integrated TeamTrack with Salesforce.com, integration was done by business analysts in partnership with IT, Breakstone says. But the business side isn’t encroaching on IT’s territory as much as the techies are reaching out toward business. Business Resiliency: Devising a Business Continuity Plan for Application Data By Rick Weaver zJournal March 2007 Business Service Management (BSM) ties business processes and operations back to the underlying IT infrastructure that supports those processes. When the components of the IT infrastructure work, business happens. But a failure in a key component can slow down or even stop the business. February 2007 BMC Software: Building Remedy Customers Like BMC's Focus on Business Process By Brian P. Watson Baseline Magazine February 28, 2007 Remedy is easily the best-traveled asset management product in the land. After going it alone, Remedy Corp. was bought in 2001 by Peregrine Systems. Accounting problems pushed Peregrine toward bankruptcy, and it sold Remedy to BMC Software in 2002. BMC Gets Optimized By Tom Taulli The Motley Fool February 13, 2007 BMC, an enterprise software company, is continuing to see progress from its move into a new area in tech: BSM (Business Service Management). No, it's not another mindless acronym. In fact, it looks like it has real growth potential. January 2007 More Users Increase Risk for Volkswagen AG By Bill Brenner SearchSecurity.com January 10, 2007 One example of Volkswagen AG's success is its ever-expanding workforce. But for Hans-Ottmar Beckmann, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the auto maker, it also illustrates the company's increased risk. December 2006 Data Center Vendor Trends from Gartner's Data Center Conference By Matt Stansberry, Site Editor SearchDataCenter.com December 13, 2006 What is CMDB and why should we care? That's the question attendees were asking at the recent Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas. Both large and small vendors were lined up to tout their version of an answer. Top Data Center Trends and Technologies for 2007 By Matt Stansberry SearchDataCenter.com December 1, 2006 Gartner prognosticators looked into their crystal balls this week to point out the top data center technologies and trends for the coming year. I made my own list based on the most popular stories on SearchDataCenter.com and my own secret sauce. November 2006 Car Maker Drives ID Control Identity Management System Links User Data to Access and Workflow By Lisa Kelly, Computing vnunet.com November 30, 2006 Volkswagen Group is implementing a global identity management system to tighten security, protect business-critical information and lock down policies to demonstrate compliance. Q&A: BMC's CEO Talks Up Products, Profits By Matt Hamblen Computerworld November 13, 2006 'We're winning the bake-offs against competitors,' says Robert Beauchamp. BMC Software Inc. last week announced strong second-quarter results, including a 7% year-over-year increase in revenue to $387 million. BMC's CEO, Robert Beauchamp, predicted in an interview that the Houston-based company would see higher revenue for the rest of the fiscal year. BMC Capitalizes on Competitors' Exec Turnovers By Lawrence M. Walsh VARBusiness November 13, 2006 IBM, Hewlett-Packard and CA have or are getting new channel chiefs. Turnover or turmoil? It doesn't matter to BMC Software CEO Bob Beauchamp. He sees opportunity in the window of his competitors' transitions. CA's Woes Mean Good Times for BMC By Tom Taulli The Motley Fool November 10, 2006 Since June, BMC Software's (NYSE: BMC) stock has been stellar, going from $20 to $32.94. The good news of its latest earnings caused the stock price to jump another 9.5%, and the company has lots of confidence that the good times will continue, announcing strong guidance for the upcoming quarter. October 2006 BMC Aims to Stay Ahead of the Pack By Nicola Mawson ITWeb October 27, 2006 While BMC Software is ahead of the Business Service Management (BSM) software curve, the company is aware its competitors are chasing it. BMC Software’s Remedy Service Desk Wins Again By Michael Palamountain, Enex TestLab Technology & Business October 25, 2006 Most of us have had contact with a computer support helpdesk at one time or another and most will agree it's an experience that can leave both the user and computer engineer exasperated. IT Horror Stories. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. By Peter Armstrong IT World October 23, 2006 The visions of axe murderers, zombies, and giant spiders that Halloween conjures are nothing compared to the very real threats to your enterprise. Do you have any idea of the potential nightmares that lay dormant within your own organization? Here are two true tales of IT terror, guaranteed to keep you up at night. Read them if you dare. BMC Rolls Out New Online Tool, Revamped Partner Program By Dan Neal CRN October 9, 2006 BMC Software on Monday launched a new online tool for solution providers and a revamped channel program, which features another partner tier plus beefed-up marketing support. eWeek Channel Insider: BMC Cuts Partners, Renews Channel Commitment By Hailey Lynne McKeefry eWeek Channel Insider October 9, 2006 To augment its enterprise management solutions, BMC Software on Oct. 9 introduced an on-demand, Web-based software demonstration tool called BMC Flight Deck GSS (Global Solutions Site), as well as numerous enhancements to its worldwide partner program. August 2006 BMC Offers Batch Management Software By Denise Dubie Network World August 30, 2006  BMC Software this week unveiled upgrades to its batch management and job scheduling software the company says will help customers manage systems more securely and with less software. Server Specs: BMC Updates Batch Management Software BMC Updates Control-M Batch Management Software By Mark Fontecchio, News Writer SearchDataCenter.com  August 26, 2006 BMC Software Inc. has released a new version of its Control-M batch management application that no longer needs a software agent on each machine that the program is running.   The 50 Most Powerful Women of the Channel: These Women Mean Business By Cristina McEachern & Shelley Solheim VARBusiness August 16, 2006 Lori Cook, Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services, Channels & Alliances, BMC Software, Houston is named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women of the Channel. July 2006 Automating Performance Management at BRZ with BMC By Gerhard Bliedl, change manager for BRZ DM Review Magazine July 2006 Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ), The Austrian Federal Computing Centre, successfully develops, implements and operates e-government solutions applicable to all aspects of public administration, acting as an integrator between the processes of public authorities, citizens' needs and the services of private industry. BMC, CA Tackle Mainframe Change in the Age of Compliance Mainframe Change Management in an Age of Compliance Is a Very Different Beast By Stephen Swoyer Enterprise Systems July 25, 2006 If it seems as if data center automation has been The Next Big Thing (TNBT) for a long time now, that’s probably because it has. BMC Looks to Optimize Data Center By Paula Musich eWEEK July 17, 2006 BMC Software on July 17 turned its attention to data center optimization when it launched updated releases of several acquired tools now integrated with each other. June 2006 BMC Ties Mainframes into Broader Systems Management Scheme New Tools Feed Mainframe System Info into Central Database By Matt Hamblen Computerworld June 20, 2006 BMC Software Inc. yesterday detailed plans to release a set of eight new and upgraded mainframe management tools that are designed partly to help systems administrators more closely link information about mainframes and distributed servers. Merrill Lynch Depends on BMC for Mainframe Management Software Company Updates Mainframe Management Backup and Recovery Wares, Updates Product Roadmap By Denise Dubie NetworkWorld.com June 19, 2006 Merrill Lynch stays on the bleeding edge of the financial services industry with multiple IT resources — one more critical resource being IBM mainframe systems. BMC's Identity Management Suite 5.0 Wins Excellence Award for Authentication and User Management  By Jim Rapoza eWeek  June 19, 2006  Excellence Awards 6 Winners, Finalists Show Innovation Up and Down IT Stack  CATEGORY: Authentication & User Management WINNER: BMC Software Identity Management Suite 5.0 BMC Has More Plans for the Mainframe  By Jeffrey Burt eWeek  June 16, 2006  BMC Software is preparing a host of new products designed to meet the growing need of mainframe users for more and easier management capabilities. Coldwater Creek Upgrades with Software Revisions from BMC By Matt Hamblen Computerworld June 6, 2006 BMC Software Inc. announced revisions to eight service desk and change management software products yesterday. The revisions are designed to improve system efficiency and lower costs. The revisions should help integrate system management functions and assist customers in setting up programs based around quality standards such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), said Fred Johannessen, a program executive at BMC. "We think we can really enhance the customer's ability to mature their [ITIL] processes," in areas such as incident and problem management, he said. May 2006 Hydro Quebec Organizes IT Asset Tracking By Kathleen Sibley itbusiness.ca   May 25, 2006 Hydro Quebec is pulling the plug on the mishmash of configurations, processes and terminologies that have characterized its IT systems with the deployment of a business services management solution that will automate the discovery of people, processes and technologies across the entire organization. BMC Expands Reach of Configuration Product By Denise Dubie NetworkWorld (Print Edition) May 22, 2006 BMC Software updated its configuration management database technology to help customers collect data from back-end systems and more easily pull data from distributed sources without a lot of manual effort. BMC Software Delivers Strong Foundation for BSM Success By DM Review Editorial staff DM Review May 18, 2006 As Business Service Management (BSM) continues to move into the IT mainstream, BMC Software launched its second generation BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and BMC Automated Discovery solutions as part of its expanded BSM foundation technologies that enable customers executing on BSM to manage their IT from a rigorous business perspective BMC Software Releases Configuration Management Database Update By Mark Fontecchio SearchDataCenter.com May 16, 2006 BMC Software Inc. has released a new version of its Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Atrium CMDB 2.0 is the Houston software company's new release meant to help companies organize their IT departments. It has also released Automated Discovery, which is supposed to help Atrium model all IT elements. BMC Simplifies Atrium Configuration Management Database By Dan Neel CRN May 15, 2006 BMC Software said Monday it has done to its Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB) product what some partners said had to be done: Simplify it. BMC Test-Drives New Dashboard By Paula Musich eWeek May 15, 2006 BMC Software is promising to bring users another step closer to the holy grail of IT management: managing infrastructure from the business perspective. BMC Software Launches Next Gen-Database and Automated Discovery Solutions By Staff ebizQ May 15, 2006 BMC Software today launched its second generation BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and BMC Automated Discovery solutions as part of its expanded BSM foundation technologies that enable customers executing on BSM to manage their IT from a rigorous business perspective. BMC and IDS Scheer Team Up for IT and Process Management By James Murray IT Week May 15, 2006 IT management software vendor BMC today announced it is offering a system with Business Process Management (BPM) specialist IDS Scheer to help firms judge how the performance of their IT infrastructure affects business processes. BMC, CA Unveil Tools for System Monitoring, Web Performance By Matt Hamblen Computerworld May 15, 2006 Two major systems management vendors separately announced tools Monday for systems monitoring and control of Web applications. BMC Software unveiled its second-generation configuration management database, along with three new discovery tools and related products designed to improve systems management. BMC Claims Lead in Service Management Struggling to Keep a Firm Grip on Your Company's IT Assets? BMC Claims That Its New Tools Could Help By Colin Barker ZDNet UK May 15, 2006 BMC Software made another move into the Business Service Management (BSM) space on Monday with the launch of the latest version of its Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB), and a new Automated Discovery product. BMC Preps BSM Readied Product Pack  By Staff ComputerWire May 15, 2006 BMC Software Inc. will today restate the alignment of its software portfolio around the delivery to market of a complete business service management, BSM, suite with news that over the next few months it will be announcing 50 new and refashioned products for BSM workflows. The vendor will also be announcing the integration with its portfolio of the ARIS Business Architect from business process management software supplier IDS Scheer AG. BMC Finds Sanctuary in Atrium CMDB By Clint Boulton Internetnews.com May 12, 2006 When you make one of your most successful products better, you'll want to let the world know. BMC Software said it plans to unveil the second generation of its Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB), a cornerstone of the software maker's Business Service Management strategy. February 2006 BMC Announces Transaction Management Tools Vendor Offers Software Aimed at Improving App Performance for End Users By Matt Hamblen Computerworld February 14, 2006 BMC Software Inc. today announced a family of transaction management tools designed to help IT managers gain information that can be used to improve the application experiences of end users. The new product family initially consists of two tools that were released late last year but not officially announced until now. One of those offerings, BMC's Transaction Management Application Response Time (TMART) software, measures the performance of applications from the perspective of end users, said the vendor. The other, the MAINVIEW Transaction Analyzer, tracks transactions on IBM mainframes running the z/OS operating system. BMC Attempts to Smooth Transactions By Paula Musich eWeek February 2, 2006 BMC Software on Feb. 13 will introduce a new end-to-end transaction management initiative intended to make managing transactions across a company easier. The new offerings in the initiative, which will be rolled out over the next year, will combine transaction data, end-user experience and infrastructure monitoring to improve business service delivery by reducing the time it takes to resolve transaction problems, according to sources close to the Houston-based company. BMC, IBM Expand Management Software Integration Companies Add Joint Software Products By Matt Hamblen Computerworld February 1, 2006 BMC Software Inc. announced today that it is expanding its relationship with IBM Tivoli and IBM Global Services to help business customers implement Business Service Management projects. January 2006 BMC's Virtualizer - Taking a Shot at Automating Virtualization -- Product Review By Sean Doherty Network Computing January 17, 2006 Virtualizer is first-to-market with software specifically designed to provision virtual machines automatically. See what Network Computing Labs has to say about the solution. BMC Software has made a number of announcements in the last few months about new solutions and updates to existing solutions that address virtualization. VSM spoke with Fred Johannessen, Program Executive for Capacity Management and Provisioning, and David Wagner, Director of Solutions Marketing for Capacity Management and Provisioning, on the topic of virtualization to learn where BMC is and where it is going in this area. November 2005 BMC Promises Unified Business Process Integration By Amy Larsen DeCarlo Systems Management Pipeline November 7, 2005 This week BMC is expanding its CONTROL-M batch management portfolio with the addition of a new Business Process Integration Suite, which will allow customers to combine real-time processes with batch processes handled by mainframes and distributed servers including ERP file transfers and transactions handled by custom-built applications. The solution adds support for message-oriented middleware, Java applications, and Web services to make it possible for organizations to gain a single point of control over processes and to simplify the management of those transactions. October 2005 BMC Intros Virtualization Suite By Martin J. Garvey InformationWeek October 17, 2005 BMC Software today unveiled its service-oriented resource management system including BMC Virtualizer Suite, a new version of BMC Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers and integration with other BMC management products. BMC Bolsters Identity Suite By Paul F. Roberts eWeek October 3, 2005 BMC Software Inc. this week will unveil its upgraded identity management software and new products that the company claims will make it easier to link network security policies to user identities. The release fulfills a promise BMC made in June, when it unveiled a road map to deliver a common graphical interface for its Identity Management Suite and expand its product capabilities in areas such as access management, password management, and user administration and provisioning. BMC Expands ID Management Suite By Grant Gross IDG October 3, 2005 BMC Software on Monday released a new version of its Identity Management Suite, including three new products designed to help businesses manage passwords and employee identities and comply with government regulations. Monday's release includes BMC Identity Discovery, BMC Identity Compliance Manager and BMC Identity Federation Manager, and is the phase two release of the BMC Identity Management Suite blueprint outlined in June, the company said. September 2005 BMC Ties ID Management to Its Database By Clint Boulton InternetNews.com September 30, 2005 BMC Software has completed the second phase of its identity management software line, rolling out a suite that boasts better integration and interoperability. Like many ID management platforms, BMC Identity Management Suite 5.0 provides customers with directory management and visualization, access management, user administration and provisioning, password management and audit and compliance management. But BMC has new tricks afoot in its latest ID management suite version, including a new and improved Web-based GUI. August 2005 How to Get It Right By Beth Schultz Network World August 22, 2005 Business Service Management has become a much-talked-about enterprise management scheme. BSM is meant to prove IT's value by linking business and technical information in a logical whole - one of the goals of the new data center. Mark Stabler, vice president of corporate strategy for BMC Software, says that BSM best practices could make the difference in whether a company succeeds or fails with the next generation of IT. Stabler shared his views in this recent interview with Signature Series Editor Beth Schultz. July 2005 Mission Critical: Heart Hospital Goes All Digital By Paula Musich eWeek July 18, 2005 Because it can also spot and highlight trends that forecast potential outages, Patrol Analytics allows users to head off issues such as the storage incident. "We've caught two problems that were prevented because of the forecasting in [Patrol] Analytics," said Stinson. June 2005 BMC Ups Its Standing in Identity Management By John Fontana Network World June 27, 2005 BMC Software this week plans to unveil three identity applications to help anchor a software suite it's developing that lets corporations manage identities as part of security and regulatory compliance efforts. The applications are part of a three-phase plan, to be completed next year, that BMC says it hopes will revive interest in its management platform; help it compete with the emerging group of identity-management suite vendors; and provide users with tools for regulatory compliance, identity allocation and management. Suite Sounds of Identity Management from BMC By Dan Neel CRN June 27, 2005 Determined to play first chair in the identity management ensemble, BMC Software this week debuted its BMC Identity Management Suite. Somesh Singh, vice president and general manager of BMC's identity management business unit, Houston, also outlined a yearlong development road map for the product. BMC Integrates Goods for ID Ease By Clint Boulton InternetNews.com June 24, 2005 BMC Software's integration of Calendra and OpenNetwork has borne fruit in the form of an improved identity management suite. Now stocked with Web access management, federated identity and improved workflow, the suite will allow users to sign on to the Web once and navigate home-baked and third-party applications, said Somesh Singh, vice president and general manager of Identity Management at BMC. BMC's Patrol Evolves into Performance Manager By Audrey Rasmussen Network World June 1, 2005 Last week BMC announced Performance Manager, which the company calls the next generation of PATROL. Essentially, BMC is combining the functionality of PATROL Express and classic PATROL into the new product. May 2005 BMC Rebrands, Revamps Systems Management Tools By Stephen Swoyer Enterprise Systems May 31, 2005 Last week, BMC Software Inc. announced a significant reshuffling of its PATROL line of systems management tools. Gone are discrete product versions, e.g., PATROL for Windows, PATROL for Linux and the lightweight PATROL Express. BMC to Unveil New Performance Manager By Paula Musich eWeek May 23, 2005 BMC Software Inc. this week will launch the next generation of its widely used PATROL application performance management software, which begins to move away from PATROL's classic reliance on agent technology that is difficult to deploy and maintain. BMC Overhauls Management Software By Denise Dubie Network World May 20, 2005 The company this year and next will do away with the PATROL brand it has touted since acquiring the system management technology in 1994 and reinvent its product portfolio under the moniker Performance Manager. Among the new offerings planned is Performance Manager for Servers, a combination of PATROL for Unix and PATROL for Windows. SmartDBA Performance Solution for DB2 UDB Version 3.0 Identifies and Resolves Database Problems before They Impact Business Performance By Linda Cole Database Journal May 3, 2005 BMC Software Inc. today announced the availability of SmartDBA Performance Solution for DB2 UDB version 3.0. SmartDBA Performance Solution for DB2 UDB provides the ability to identify such problems as data fragmentation, poorly written SQL and which objects and SQL are being impacted and resolves those problems before they impact business performance. March 2005 BMC Buys OpenNetwork for $18 Million By Paul Roberts ARNNET - Australia March 24, 2005 Enterprise management software company BMC Software is continuing its identity-management buying spree, announcing that it is buying OpenNetwork Technologies, a maker of Web access management and single sign-on technology, for US$18 million in cash. Caixa Standardizes with Business Service Management from BMC Software By CBR Editorial Staff CBR March 9, 2005 Spanish savings bank Caixa Catalunya is to utilize the Business Service Management product from Houston, Texas-based BMC Software, to optimize its business processes in an effort to align IT with its business goals. BMC Unifies Channels By Stuart Wilson ITP Technology March 9, 2005 BMC has now pulled together all its various channel models into a unified partner programme. The need for the new umbrella programme, called the BMC Partner Network, stems from BMC’s acquisition-driven growth in the past few years. 50 Local Leaders By CRN Staff CRN March 7, 2005 This week's CRN highlights the 2005 Channel Chiefs and includes a profile of Paige Erickson. Her profile is part of the "50 Local Leaders" section and is included under BMC SOFTWARE. BMC Consolidates Channel Programs By Dan Neel CRN March 7, 2005 BMC Software on Monday unveiled plans to unify the disparate programs of its multiple product lines beneath a single program called the BMC Partner Network. xwave Wards Off Skills Shortage with Mainframe Automation By Ryan B. Patrick IT World Canada March 7, 2005 As some of its senior database administrators contemplate retirement, xwave Solutions Inc. is taking a proactive approach to ward off a potential mainframe skills shortage within its data centre. The St. John's-based IT integrator announced last week that it is using SmartDBA, an automated solution from BMC Software Inc. to consolidate its DBA staff. BMC Launches New Partner Program By Mark Cox eChannel Line March 7, 2005 Enterprise software management vendor BMC Software Inc. has restructured its partner programs into one unified program, the BMC Partner Network, which both integrates BMC's partner programs following a wave of acquisitions and deepens the program's focus around the company's Business Service Management (BSM) strategy. The new program goes live April 1. February 2005 Case Study: Bypassing Performance False Alarms By Stephen Swoyer Enterprise System February 22, 2005 This article is about how a prominent hospital was able to increase the productivity of its IT staff and pay for itself all in about two months. Dave Stinson, a network director with Oklahoma Heart Hospital said, with some relief, that he tapped a new performance-monitoring offering from BMC Software Inc. – Analytics– that is able to differentiate between real alerts and false alarms. BMC Cuts False Performance Alerts to Zero By Steve Swoyer Enterprise Systems February 8, 2005 Yesterday, BMC announced PATROL Analytics, a new business intelligence add-on for its PATROL distributed systems management tool. BMC says the new offering contains an analytics engine – from Netuitive Inc. – brings self-capabilities to the PATROL environment. BMC Adds Analysis Features to Patrol By Bob Francis InfoWorld February 7, 2005 BMC Software (Profile, Products, Articles) has added a new component to its Patrol product that is designed to help IT managers resolve problems faster, increase system availability, and maximize productivity. January 2005 BMC Debuts Configuration-Management Database By Darrell Dunn Information Week January 21, 2005 The software is designed to help businesses unify service- and infrastructure-management tools to promote database management consistency and simplified integration among processes. BMC Delivers ITIL-Based Database By Denise Dubie Network World January 21, 2005 BMC next week will update products to include a common configuration management database, which the company says will help network managers more easily tackle IT service management. BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB) will make its debut in Remedy IT Service Management Suite 6.0. BMC to Buy ID Management Company By Paul Roberts InfoWorld January 10, 2005 Companies that make identity management software continue to be hot commodities in 2005, as they were in 2004, as BMC Software announced plans to acquire Calendra, a Paris-based maker of Web-based identity management technology. BMC Grabs ID Management Vendor By Clint Boulton Internet News.com January 10, 2005 BMC Software agreed to acquire Calendra, a Paris-based maker of identity management software, for $33 million in cash. BMC to Buy Identity Management Specialist By Matt Hines ZDNet January 10, 2005 Based in Paris, privately held Calendra sells software that aims to help companies more easily manage employee data and IT asset directories, which are used to oversee and secure corporate networks.