BMC is a name well known by large enterprises and governments that use “mainframes”, but in reality it is a company that is attempting to transform itself into a global leader in innovative software solutions that enable businesses to transform into digital enterprises.
Spark Ventures, a subsidiary of New Zealand telco Spark, has deployed BMC’s Remedyforce solution to manage and support its back-end infrastructure powering consumer and business digital services.
The digital economy is breathing new life into the mainframe. Whether it’s buying an airline ticket, shipping an item from overseas, or making a mobile transaction, you may not know it, but mainframes are most likely powering those most popular applications.
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Former CA, IBM and Telstra exec Chris Gibbs has been appointed MD of BMC Software in Australia/NZ to lead ‘all aspects of building a strong competitive position for BMC.’
Mainframes are delivering security, availability, data and transactional throughput, which are ‘key drivers in powering the digital economy’, with its survey respondents clearly positive on mainframe’s future.
BMC’s ‘Digital Enterprise Management’ is a blueprint for companies to transform into ‘digital enterprises’ while keeping the organisation secure and existing legacy systems operational.
Cloud-based IT management software vendor Kaseya has announced a significant investment in a program which it says is designed to enable its customers to derive maximum value from their relationship with the company.
Cloud-based financials ERP software provider NetSuite has appointed 25-year IT industry veteran Graeme Burt as its channel sales director Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).
Sydney based managed services provider Applaud is offering BMC's Remedy IT service management software as a cloud-based service, saying it offers considerable advantages over the traditional premises based deployment.
Sydney-based managed service provider Applaud has adopted BMC's Remedy IT service management system.
Systems software specialist BMC is exploring how it can harness gamification and augmented reality techniques in the next generation of its systems management tools. The company runs a couple of technology incubators in Israel and India where it is working on ideas that may ultimately wend their way into future products.
Interest in cloud deployments of BMC's Remedy ITSM software is growing rapidly, and the company has plans to broaden the scope of the product.
Australian software company eMite has scored a sales win from a major IT outsourcer.
When Mark Settle joined BMC Software as its chief information officer four years ago it was a mainly an on-premises software user, but he's been rolling out at least one Software as a Service (SaaS) application a quarter, and the company now runs a portfolio of more than 30 different SaaS tools. The new cloud computing paradigm demands a whole new approach from a CIO as Mr Settle has learned.
BMC has beefed up its end-to-end service management capabilities by acquiring end-user experience and web application performance monitoring specialist Coradiant.
Cobol may be well into its 50s but like any good Baby Boomer it's clinging on - thanks in large part to lingering legacy. A random sampling of online jobs boards today turned up eight Cobol jobs in NSW, 24 in Victoria, and a lonely single role in Canberra.
BMC has released a new generation of products for cloud management, including a policy-based engine to automate the configuration and management of cloud services.
Monash University is using BMC's Remedy IT Service Management Suite as part of its shared services transformation.
A $.12 million deal will see Macquarie Telecom adopt BMC's IT automation products.