This is your opportunity to hear some of the industry’s foremost thought leaders and luminaries, as well as your chance to hear directly from some of BMC’s most dynamic and distinguished leaders.
We’ve put together a great line up for UserWorld 2007 Vancouver that will set the mood for this exciting week of learning. Be sure to catch renowned Futurist Don McMillan’s performance on Friday!
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
The main general session on Wednesday will feature three presentations:
Bob Beauchamp, President and CEO, BMC Software
Welcome Address and Keynote
Thomas Mendel, Vice President, Research Director, Forrester Research
Panel Discussion
Peter Armstrong, Corporate Strategist, BMC Software
Panel Discussion
Sharon Taylor, Chief Architect for ITIL Version 3 Project and President Aspect Group
“ITIL V3 and Business Service Management”
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Following the general session, keynotes for the BMC Control-M/D and Mainframe Systems Programmers tracks will take place.
“Operations Management – Past, Present and Future”
Gur Steif ,Vice President, Infrastructure Management, BMC Software
In this session, we will share the strategic drivers affecting automation and document management requirements for customers and how those strategic drivers affect the direction and capabilities of BMC CONTROL-M and BMC CONTROL-D products.
“Mainframe Service Management”
Jonathan Adams , Vice President MAINVIEW Line of Business, BMC Software
This presentation will provide an overview of the latest Mainframe Service Management Business Unit (MSM BU) initiatives including future solution development and plans for the continued integration of the mainframe to BSM. Specific areas addressed will include:
- Mainframe Product Installation Improvement
- BMC Exploitation of Mainframe Specialty Engines (zIIP / zAAP)
- Mainframe Discovery and Mainframe Impact Integration
- Mainframe Integration to Enterprise Transaction Management and Middleware
- Mainframe Automation
- Mainframe Storage Management
- Mainframe Capacity Planning
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
On Thursday, keynotes for the distributed systems, service management and identity management tracks will take place:
"Between Agility and Enterprise-ready Software"
Israel Gat, Vice President of Distributed Systems Management, BMC Software
With business requirements changing faster than traditional development cycles, the effectiveness of most IT operations teams is critically dependent on three factors:
- A focus on service delivery
- Choosing an extensible systems management platform
- Picking a vendor that can rapidly change
BMC’s Business Service Management for IT operations platform is unique in combining service awareness, extensibility, and agility in a manner that conventional platforms and traditional programming practices can’t. In so doing, BMC enables IT operations teams and the business units they support to optimize service delivery without giving up the benefits of enterprise-ready software. In this keynote session, Israel Gat will overview BSM for IT operations and describe how the combination of a service orientation and an enterprise-agile development methodology provides BMC and its customers the unique capability to rapidly deliver updated or new management solutions to changing market needs.
“Services Driven Identity Management: Designing Identity Management for the Future”
John Pullen, Vice President & General Manager, Identity Management Business Unit
Bob Worner, Director, Identity Management Business Unit, BMC Software
Explore how BMC can help you run an identity-aware business via solutions that automate credential authorization and software provisioning based on roles and policies. Learn how to use and leverage identity information and IT Service Management best practices to improve internal service levels. This is especially important with the prominence of identity management & access management in ITIL V 3. Hear how BMC Software’s unique approach to building an identity- aware solution, enabling IT operations to significantly enhance their service support and delivery capabilities.
BSM Update - Charting the Future for Service Support, Service Automation, and Atrium
Paul Avenant, vice president Service Management business, BMC Software
IT organizations are challenged to drive cost reduction and efficiency improvements while increasing performance against service levels and ramping up new services more quickly to meet the ever increasing demands of the business. In this session, we will provide you an overview of new capabilities from the BMC Service Management Business which will improve efficiency and enhance availability/performance while supporting the growth requirements for the business. We will provide important updates on the AR System, Remedy ITSM, and Configuration Automation (Marimba) product areas. We will also provide an overview of new offerings including Service Request Management, BSM Dashboards, and the newly acquired RealOps & Emprisa solutions. Finally, we will outline our vision and high level roadmap in key areas such as Service Support, Service Automation, Atrium that are integral towards taking Business Service Management to the next level.
“Delivering BSM Value Today Through Leadership in Solution Design and Delivery”
Cosmo Santullo, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services
Implementing any tool or product can often yield unpredictable results. But by combining industry best practices and a proven methodology for solution design and delivery tailored to customer-specific objectives, BMC Consulting Services and partners help you realize full Business Service Management (BSM) potential. BMC Worldwide Sales and Services Vice President Cos Santullo will discuss how BMC solution design and delivery is a robust and structured approach to delivering successful implementations.
Don McMillan, Futurist
Don McMillan graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Electrical Engineering.
In his more than 20 years in the high tech world he has worked at IBM, AT&T Bell
Laboratories, and VLSI Technologies. While at Bell Laboratories, he was a member
the team that developed the world’s first 32-bit microprocessor. Currently, Don is the
CEO of McMillan Research, Inc. MRI’s charter is to envision future technology trends
and then advise it’s clients on the best paths to realize that future. He has written
two best selling books: “Tomorrow is Not What It Used to Be” and “The Future is
a Marketing Gimmick”.
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