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BMC Service Impact Manager

 

Business Challenge

Business depends upon IT infrastructure and expects excellent service levels. IT organizations need to both align and maintain IT-to-Business definitions in an ever-changing environment. Understanding how IT and Business relate helps IT set response priorities for service problems that are based on business priorities, provides competitive advantage, shows the Business value that IT delivers, enables the IT organization for Business Service Management (BSM), and helps ensure IT survival.

Business Need

  • Show the value that the IT organization delivers to business operations
  • Instrument the ability to model how IT relates to the Business and maintain those models
  • Provide role-based reports and dashboards for efficient analysis and response to real-time impacts
  • Provide business/IT service impact intelligence to IT operations, help desk and change management
  • Leverage existing IT information and tool investments; no rip-and-replace

Our Solution

BMC Service Impact Manager (SIM) enables BSM through real-time business-aware information about IT services and infrastructure. SIM leverages existing management tools and processes events against service models that relate IT and Business. Business-aware service models enable IT to pinpoint root cause and prioritize Business-critical problems. SIM uses the BMC Configuration Management Database (CMDB) as an instrumented asset and configuration data source to create and maintain models. Common reporting and Web portal technologies deliver role-based dashboards and IT service impact reports.

Key Features & Benefits

  • Shows the real-time impact of IT problems on IT and business services through real-time service views, dashboards, and reports
  • Promotes organization knowledge of the value of IT to the business and the importance of services to business operations
  • Instruments the creation and maintenance of models through the BMC CMDB, a repository for discovery, change, asset, and configuration data
  • Extends the value of existing IT tool investments through the BMC CMDB and by leveraging events from existing management tools
  • Includes integrations to BMC Event Manager, PATROL®, PATROL Enterprise Manager, AlarmPoint®, Remedy® Help Desk, and Remedy Asset Management
  • Supports integrations with MAINVIEW®, SmartDBA®, CONTROL®-M, SLM Express and BMC Software partner integration products
  • Re-uses common BMC Portal and BMC Reporting Foundation technologies for role-based Web-based dashboards and historical reporting

 DOCUMENTATION 
Article
  • CMDB: The Heart of IT Service Management (pdf)
  • The CMDB: Relief for your IT Headache (pdf)
  • The Federated Data Model (pdf)
  • BMC Paves The Service Desk Road Map: CMDB At The Heart Of Integration Strategy (pdf)
  • Therapy for a Stressed Enterprise (pdf)
Brochure
  • BMC Event Management - Consolidate Event Management for Rapid Problem Detection and Resolution - European Spanish (pdf)
  • BMC Event Management - Consolidate Event Management for Rapid Problem Detection and Resolution (pdf)
  • BMC Educational Services (pdf)
Datasheet
  • BMC Atrium CMDB (pdf)
  • BMC Service Impact Manager (pdf)
  • BMC Atrium CMDB - European Portuguese (pdf)
  • BMC Remedy Service Desk (pdf)
  • BMC Dashboard for BSM (pdf)
  • Seamless Technologies and BMC Software (pdf)
  • iiOVO Data Sheet (pdf)
  • BMC Service Impact Manager v7.1 (pdf)
  • BMC Atrium (pdf)
  • BMC Impact Web Console Datasheet (htm) (pdf)
Success Story
  • Cerner Takes Business Service Management Approach to Ensure Availability of Critical Healthcare Systems (pdf)
  • Telekurs Services AG Achieves Business Transparency Using Business Service Management (BSM) (pdf)
  • Toyota Motorsport Gmbh Aligns IT With Business and Racing Objectives Using Business Service Management Solutions from BMC Software (pdf)
White Paper
  • Achieve Utility Computing Results Today (pdf)
  • Swing into Business Service Management - Seven Strategies (pdf)
  • Raising the Bar for ITIL and CMDB Implementations (pdf)
  • Infrastructure Foundation for Business Service Management (pdf)
  • BMC Service Impact Manager and the BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (pdf)
  • BMC Service Impact Manager Architectural Overview (pdf)
  • Mind the Gap - Leveraging the Service Desk and IT Operations for Improved Business Service Delivery (pdf) (htm)
  • Achieving Proactive Incident and Problem Management Using BMC Performance Manager (pdf)
 
 
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BMC Remedy Service Desk
BMC SmartDBA Database Performance for DB2
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 RESOURCE CENTER  
Events
  Improve Operational Efficiencies with BMC Event Manager and BMC Service Impact Manager (recorded)
Related Links
Learn about the BMC Impact Manager education course
BMC ProactiveNet Analytics and Distributed Systems Management White Paper (registration required)
EMA: BMC Announces ProactiveNet Enhancements: Next Step in Service-Aware BSM Strategy (pdf)
Ptak, Noel and Associates: BMC Enhances Service Assurance with Analytics and Integration (pdf)
Gartner: Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis, 2007
 



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