BMC Software Advances Industry-leading Change and Configuration Management Solutions
July 13 2005 - 9:03AM
PR Newswire (US)
BMC Software Advances Industry-leading Change and Configuration
Management Solutions New Discovery Capabilities and Partner
Integrations Extend Ecosystem Around BMC Atrium Configuration
Management Database SAN JOSE, Calif., July 13
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the BMC(R) Remedy(R) User Group 2005,
BMC Software(R) (NYSE:BMC) continued to deliver advancements in its
Change and Configuration Management (CCM) solutions to enable
customers that manage IT to respond quickly and effectively to
rapid change in their business environment. Today, BMC Software
introduced new integrations for its discovery solutions that
expedite reconciliation and reporting and extended the ecosystem of
the BMC(R) Atrium(TM) Configuration Management Database (CMDB) with
a developers network and new partner integrations. Launched last
summer, the comprehensive BMC Software CCM solutions enable
companies to more quickly and easily identify the IT environment
related to critical business services, respond to changing business
and IT requirements, and control all business critical
configurations in the IT environment. The CCM solutions support the
BMC Software Business Service Management (BSM) strategy through
automated IT discovery solutions that identify all components of
the IT environment, their relationships to each other, and the
critical business services they support. "BMC Software's leadership
in change and configuration management through delivering
innovative solutions such as the BMC Atrium CMDB has allowed the
company to set a new standard in IT and business alignment," said
Tom Bishop, chief technology officer at BMC Software and keynote
speaker at RUG. "By strengthening the discovery solutions that feed
it, as well as building out the partners who both populate and
access data from it, BMC Software is creating an ecosystem around
the BMC Atrium CMDB that will make it even more valuable in
enabling companies to understand and manage their IT environments
from a business perspective." New Partner Integrations and
Developers Network Extend BMC Atrium CMDB Ecosystem BMC Atrium
CMDB, a purpose-built, ITIL inspired CMDB, addresses the IT
Infrastructure Library (ITIL) requirement for a single, enterprise
CMDB to ensure data consistency and simplify integration between
differing service management processes. Currently shipping with BMC
Service Impact Manager (SIM), and other service management
applications, the BMC Atrium CMDB provides service modeling and a
graphical viewer that is attractive to partners looking to offer
business context in their management solutions. To make it easier
for partners to leverage the power of BMC Atrium CMDB, BMC Software
is introducing the MarketZone Developers Network at RUG. The
MarketZone Developers Network offers schema, best practices, and an
API for anyone who wants to build integrations to BMC Atrium CMDB.
BMC Software recently completed its first sessions of BMC Atrium
CMDB developer's integration training. Among the companies
participating were two CCM partners, TripWire and Voyence. At RUG,
both companies will showcase their solutions and the value of
integrating with BMC Atrium CMDB. Tripwire, the world leader in
change auditing solutions, is leveraging BMC Atrium CMDB to enable
customers to better understand network service issues. Tripwire
Enterprise detects changes made to servers and network devices,
reconciles authorized and intended changes, and reports on
unexpected change activity to maintain infrastructure integrity and
enforce change management processes. At RUG, Tripwire is providing
a business service context to change management with demonstrations
of Tripwire Enterprise mapping its change information with the BMC
Atrium CMDB configuration data to enable assessment of business
service impacts within BMC SIM and automated closed-loop change
management with other BMC change and configuration management
products. By working with Voyence, the leading provider of network
configuration management solutions, BMC Software is expanding its
view into network configuration, offering customers the ability to
control changes to network devices. Voyence's VoyenceControl!
automates network planning, design, deployment, and change
management processes. At RUG, Voyence is demonstrating integration
between VoyenceControl! and BMC Atrium CMDB, BMC Service Impact
Manager (SIM), and BMC Remedy Help Desk. This integration supports
the BMC Software BSM strategy by providing companies with expanded
visibility into their IT infrastructure and enables them to
understand how changes to the configuration of the network affect
business services. New Discovery Capabilities Enable Rapid Response
to Change Last December, BMC shipped its IT Discovery suite, which
identifies all aspects of the business-critical IT environment and
keeps the BMC Atrium CMDB continuously updated with actual
configuration information on the changing IT environment. The suite
includes BMC Discovery Express, which enables customers to identify
what components make up their IT environment; BMC Configuration
Discovery, which defines how those assets are configured; and BMC
Topology Discovery, which shows how systems are connected and
applications are related. To meet today's dynamic business
environment, discovery needs to be done often to be sure that the
most current information is available. To address these needs, BMC
Software is delivering new reconciliation and reporting
capabilities for BMC Discovery Express and BMC Configuration
Discovery that help companies become more efficient at validating
planned changes and discovering unplanned, or rogue, changes. BMC
Discovery Express and BMC Configuration Discovery have added
several new reconciliation rules that are available out of the box.
New integration between these discovery solutions also optimizes
the reconciliation process by handling it at the Discovery product
level, before the information is incorporated into BMC Atrium CMDB.
By moving the reconciliation out to the discovery solutions, BMC
Software simplifies reconciliation and expedites processing, making
it possible to have near real-time information on the state of an
organization's IT environment. BMC Software also has added a new
common reporting interface for both products, based on Marimba
Report Center. The new interface is Web-based, offers more than 200
reports out-of-the-box, as well as three powerful tools for
manipulating the discovery data, to make it easier for companies to
understand their IT environment. About BMC Software BMC Software,
Inc. (NYSE:BMC) is a leading provider of enterprise management
solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure
from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service
Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems,
applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980,
BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2004 revenues of more
than $1.4 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit
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Partner Quotes "BMC recognizes successful implementation of a
configuration management database will require a federated model of
change and configuration management tools and processes --
including independent change detection and auditing," said Ken
Keeler, vice president of Technology, Product and Partner
Development at Tripwire. "This leadership and understanding is
exemplified by the openness of the Atrium solution. Tripwire is
pleased to partner with BMC on future product integration to assure
the integrity of configuration information on which so much
depends." "What we're seeing is a critical need for top-of-the-line
configuration management solutions," said Mary Morgan, Voyence SVP
of Global Operations. "There is a direct and vital link between
Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM) solutions and
bottom-line business issues. The seamless integration between
VoyenceControl! and the BMC Atrium CMDB addresses not only the
health of the network, but the financial health of the entire
organization -- proof positive that NCCM is a 'must-have' in
today's world."
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