Industry First: BMC Software's Agent-less Scheduling Solution Helps Customers Manage Business Impacts 'Down to the Minute'
August 28 2006 - 8:45AM
PR Newswire (US)
* New CONTROL-M agent-less solution erases boundary between
real-time and batch processing across both mainframe and
distributed systems HOUSTON, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BMC
Software (NYSE:BMC) today launched the industry's first agent-less,
enterprise-wide scheduling solution, enabling businesses to
predict, adapt and control an organization's reaction to change on
a minute-by-minute basis. The significantly upgraded version of the
BMC CONTROL-M software solution provides enterprise CIOs and their
IT management teams with an integrated, single-view management
console that cuts across mainframe and distributed systems,
including those previously considered inaccessible. As the
industry's first agent-less scheduling solution, it marks a major
advance in BMC's Business Service Management (BSM) offerings and a
clear lead over all competitors. Andi Mann, senior analyst at
Enterprise Management Associates, said: "BMC Software is raising
the bar over their competitors with this initiative, and providing
a solution that will benefit any enterprise, large or small. Now
with the choice of both agent-based and agent-less job scheduling,
BMC CONTROL-M provides strong benefits with a flexible, secure, and
functional solution to a significant enterprise problem. With this
announcement, BMC CONTROL-M is setting a new standard in job
scheduling, providing enterprises with unrivalled flexibility and
agility to deploy enterprise-class agent-based and agent-less
scheduling 'out-of-the-box'." Key, new Business Service Management
benefits of BMC CONTROL-M include: 1) Integrated, agent-based and
agent-less data management across both mainframe and distributed
systems, providing a comprehensive on-demand portrait of business
data and processes, both batch and real-time; 2) Focused systems
management and control, enabling efficient business problem
detection and resolution; 3) Elimination of the need for special
security authorizations required by many government statutes and
regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley, further freeing up business
and IT resources and providing quicker time to value; and 4)
Holistic, single-view management of all systems - including those
previously considered inaccessible - resulting in significant
reductions in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the release of
more resources for reinvestment or to support the bottom line. As
the volume and complexity of workload automation continues to
skyrocket, with each Web-based transaction averaging more than 10
batch processes, the new agent-less capability provided by BMC
CONTROL-M will be absolutely necessary if a business is to
accurately understand its process and data flows. From accounting
and order processing to inventory management and procurement, more
than 50 percent of critical business operations are performed in
batch environments. Previous versions of BMC CONTROL-M have enjoyed
a very loyal following among customers, and the new agent-less
version was designed to dramatically broaden the installed base.
Today, more than 2,000 organizations have installed BMC CONTROL-M,
the vast majority of which replaced an existing scheduling tool,
and are leveraging the solution to meet Business Service Management
(BSM) objectives. For some companies this means they now have
insight into each employee's desktop, allowing CIOs and IT staff to
find and focus on problem areas that could impact the business.
Additionally, BMC's agent-less capabilities leverage virtualization
technology to reduce the number of servers an administrator needs
to touch by as much as 80 percent, increasing service levels,
speeding deployment and improving security. "As an industry leader
in the mail order and retail industry, we are always looking for
ways to tie our IT investments to business benefit," said Melodie
Wilson, Business Administrator, L.L. Bean. "Our company prides
itself on delivering superior customer service by maintaining
service levels across our enterprise. Utilizing BMC CONTROL-M for
our daily enterprise batch processing provides us with the
flexibility to run batch across various operating systems and
simplify our processes with a single and easy-to-use interface."
From an IT management standpoint, BMC CONTROL-M allows datacenter
staff to place the entire spectrum of their IT infrastructure
within their control and measurement. They can schedule, submit,
and monitor jobs on any platform with or without installing a
remote agent, and manage systems previously deemed inaccessible due
to security protocols, configuration processes or environmental
resources. "Job scheduling is no longer just an IT function; it is
now a critical part of the business process," said Bill Miller,
vice president and general manager, Mainframe Service Management
Business Unit, BMC Software. "In many instances, even a minor
process defect can have major repercussions on business performance
and customer satisfaction. With the addition of agent- less
monitoring, BMC CONTROL-M enables organizations to manage IT from a
business perspective, increasing productivity and improving
business revenue. BMC CONTROL-M's agent-less functionality and
unified single-view console represent the best approach for the
real-time enterprise." BMC's Business Service Management
Differentiator for Workload Automation BMC CONTROL-M supports the
company's Business Service Management (BSM) strategy by helping
customers better understand the relationship between real- time and
batch processing environments and then managing those environments
to assure on-time delivery of the business services they support.
Combining BMC CONTROL-M's batch scheduling solution with BMC Batch
Impact Manager provides a clear picture of the status of all batch
business services and enables customers to proactively detect
potential delays as well as errors in the batch process, so that
corrective actions take place before the business service is
affected. About BMC Software BMC Software is a leading global
provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies
to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective.
Delivering Business Service Management, BMC solutions span
enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management.
Founded in 1980, BMC posted fiscal 2006 revenues of approximately
$1.5 billion. For more information, visit http://www.bmc.com/ .
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