Overview: 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.

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Best Practice Insights: ITIL Service Operation by BMC Software, Inc . November 03, 2009 - Service Operation, the fourth book in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3 publications, assists readers in developing management practices to ensure customers are satisfied and receive the value they expect. BMC experts have compiled an overview based on Service Operation, including valuable commentary, practical guidance and examples.

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BMC Mainview: Controlling Mainframe Operating Costs While Maintaining Service Levels by BMC Software, Inc . April 17, 2009 - Directors of IT operations are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating costs while maintaining service levels to the business. This paper describes how BMC® MAINVIEW® from BMC Software uniquely delivers aggressive and strategic performance management and optimization.

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BMC Service Automation: The next step in the evolution of Business Service Management by BMC Software, Inc . November 03, 2009 - As you know, automation is a critical component in achieving long-term IT savings. We've compiled a few resources to give you an overview of the benefits of service automation and the technology behind our comprehensive solution.

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BMC SQL Performance for DB2: A Review of the Potential Return on Investment by BMC Software, Inc . November 20, 2009 - The ever present demand to maximise the value delivered by business-critical applications requires that we optimise the use of all the resources that execute and manage them. BMC Software is one of the major vendors offering such support and has a highly regarded set of solutions collectively called BMC SQL Performance for DB2.

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BMC SQL Performance for DB2: Two Minute Explainer Video by BMC Software, Inc . April 24, 2009 - Inefficient DB2 applications can waste MIPS and cost an organization thousands while mainframe application demand continually grows. Learn how BMC's SQL Performance solution for DB2 can reduce CPU MIPS, improve DB2 application performance, correct problems before they occur, and enable staff to work on more productive tasks.

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Business Service Efficiency: The Key to Green IT and Profitability by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.

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Crossing the Chasm Between the Service Desk and Operations by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - IT organizations can significantly improve efficiency and reduce operational costs by creating environments with shared access to common data to support Operations and the Service Desk, and evolving and automating key processes between the two groups.

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Cutting Costs Through Workload Automation by BMC Software, Inc . October 12, 2009 - Join BMC's John McKinney with featured speaker Milind Govekar, Gartner analyst, for an informative webcast reinforcing the cost-cutting benefits of workload automation.

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Dell's SMART Approach to Workload Automation by BMC Software, Inc . April 17, 2009 - This white paper discusses why Dell chose BMC's CONTROL-M when they embarked on a broad initiative to integrate and upgrade its IT services to better satisfy business needs.

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E-book: Automate configuration changes and save your data center millions by BMC Software, Inc . November 03, 2009 - Manual configuration changes are the no. 1 cause of service disruptions. In this article, customers, analysts and IT experts share strategies to help automate your manual processes and ensure that changes are applied according to configurations – every time. Download the ebook.

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eBook: Best Practices for DB2 on z/OS Performance by BMC Software, Inc . April 17, 2009 - This book contains general information about improving performance for DB2 on
z/OS and specific information about how BMC products help improve performance.

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Faster, Cheaper, Safer: Improving Agility, TCO, and Security with Agentless Job Scheduling by BMC Software, Inc . April 17, 2009 - Enterprise job scheduling is a mature and mission-critical IT capability that supports some of the most important business processes throughout a modern enterprise. This EMA whitepaper will review the implementation and benefits of agentless job scheduling.

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Five Steps to Gaining Control and Managing Complexity in the Data Center through Service Automation by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - Automating your data center can improve operational efficiency and give you control over service quality, security, and business agility, while simultaneously reducing risk and costs. Learn how five simple steps can help you chart your course to automation and show you how to develop a deliberate and well-planned incremental approach.

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Gartner's Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis by BMC Software, Inc . November 03, 2009 - Before investing in an event management solution, you’ll want to know how the product will fit within your overall event-to-incident and problem management processes, including workflow, escalation and integration with service desk tools. Gartner assesses the vendor landscape in their latest Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis.

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IMS Common Services Layer - An Introduction by BMC Software, Inc . April 17, 2009 - No recent IMS enhancement has more potential to improve internal processing than does the Common Services Layer (CSL). The CSL provides many benefits.
This document describes the basics of CSL usage and how to get started with the CSL.

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Integrating and Automating Composite Applications by BMC Software, Inc . November 14, 2008 - This Enterprise Management Associates white paper will describe how new technologies are being used by IT to develop new applications to give a new competitive edge to their enterprises; provide an overview of the new challenges involved; investigate solutions to overcome these challenges; and show how these solutions drive business value.

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IT Automation: Going Beyond the Obvious to Find Real Cost Savings by BMC Software, Inc . September 18, 2009 - Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA®) research shows 75% of CIOs are facing budget cuts. Most CIOs need to go beyond obvious cost reduction measures to address the largest single IT cost - staff. This whitepaper will discuss the ways that Workload automation can effect real cost savings.

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IT Survey Results: Top Priorities Through 2010 by BMC Software, Inc . November 09, 2009 - What will be most important to IT organizations over the next 12 months? It's probably no surprise that cost control or reduction in spending is the key priority. This white paper looks at the near-term activities of the IT organizations surveyed by TechTarget, along with their constraints, issues, motivating factors, and strategies.

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ITIL®,the CMS and You by BMC Software, Inc . August 20, 2009 - This white paper describes the CMS (configuration management system) as emphasized in ITIL V3, and explores how it differs from a CMDB. Further, it shows how a CMS increases your ability to make better IT decisions that impact business agility, productivity, and quality of service.

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Modernizing IT: Strategies for Improving Service Quality and Reducing IT Costs by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - Working harder simply won't get you there. No matter how many people you allocate, sinking more labor into old IT practices cannot concurrently meet rising demands on IT and cut costs. Read about cost-effective, automated ways to meet this challenge head-on in our latest article, “Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and..”

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MV Capacity Trending Advisor by BMC Software, Inc . April 23, 2009 - BMC Capacity Trending Advisor saves time and money, reduces the skills required for capacity planning, and delivers precision results that give you the data you need to procure the right resources to support business services. Learn more today.

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Reduce CPU Usage with 'SMART' SQL by BMC Software, Inc . November 30, 2009 - This paper discusses how and why to design SQL that will reduce the number of times calls are made to DB2. We'll look at how to write SMART applications rather than writing applications that act like generic I/O modules to DB2, properly tune SMART SQL, and how to exploit SQL and application features in DB2 on z/OS version 8 and 9.

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Ride the Express Lane in the Journey to Speed ITIL® Adoption by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - The journey to ITIL is challenging and requires clarity of vision and a disciplined execution to achieve that vision. By following ITIL practices, your IT organization will become more closely integrated with the business. BMC recommends making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through...

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Service Desk Consolidation Cuts Costs and Increases Service Quality by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - The service desk is the last place you should try to cut back. For external-facing organizations, quality support keeps customer loyalty and repeat business high and ensures that partners and suppliers can do business with you cost effectively. Read this whitepaper to discover the path to proper service desk consolidation and its many benefits.

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Seven Ways ITIL Can Help You in an Economic Downturn by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) best practices promote a well-functioning, collaborative IT environment that can enable the business and your IT organization to cope with the effects of economic stress. ITIL can help you to deliver higher-performing technology services that help your business to be both more competitive today and...

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Simplify and Automate: Building Your Roadmap to Improve IT Delivery and Support - A free one-day virtual seminar brought to you by BMC Software, Inc. by BMC Software, Inc . October 29, 2009 - Find out how you can build a plan for IT simplification and automation and get practical advice for your complex challenges around areas such as: business service management, service desk and self-service, mainframe cost optimization, virtualization and cloud computing.

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SMART Steps Toward Consolidated Workload Automation by BMC Software, Inc . April 17, 2009 - BMC CONTROL-M is a powerful WLA (Workload automation) solution that should be in consideration for any WLA consolidation project.

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SMART, Modular, Cost-Effective Steps to Workload Automation by BMC Software, Inc . April 17, 2009 - This paper proposes a high-level methodology for implementation of Workload Automation (WLA) - a mature evolution of job scheduling that automates complex IT processing and includes support for event-driven workloads, multiple platforms, Web services, composite applications, SOAs, virtual systems, system and application integration, and more.

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Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and Improving Operational Efficiency by BMC Software, Inc . November 03, 2009 - To meet business demands for higher levels of performance and availability – all while adding services and reducing costs – IT has to modernize. A strong service assurance capability enabled by available Business Service Management (BSM) solutions can help you modernize IT and deliver compelling business benefits.

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Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software.

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The IT Management Software Megavendors by BMC Software, Inc . October 27, 2009 - The current recession and credit crunch deeply affected IT spending in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. This SWOT Analyst report for Q3 2009 regroups the market contenders by categories for an easier evaluation to enable vendor strategy professionals to substantiate decisions about their partnership and go-to-market strategies.

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Understanding ITIL® Service Portfolio Management: An Approach For Implementing Effective Service Lifecycle Management by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - IT executives and their teams need a comprehensive and accurate view of IT services. A service catalog includes all relevant details about your services, including which service level agreements (SLAs) are associated with it, who is able to request it, how much it costs, and how to fulfill it. This paper describes the IT Infrastructure...

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Unlock the Hidden IT Opportunities in Troubled Economic Times by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - IT executives are under intense pressure to cut costs, and that pressure is significantly increased by the current grim economic outlook. So, how can your organization weather this economic storm? Surprisingly, a variety of opportunities for IT are hidden within today's financial challenges. Learn how with the right approach, processes, and...

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Why You Should Take a Holistic Approach to ITIL and Service Support by BMC Software, Inc . June 15, 2009 - In these tough economic times, how do you address the challenge of reducing costs without diminishing your service quality? Companies can lower costs significantly and meet the growing demand for services by taking a more holistic approach. This paper discusses the importance of taking a unified approach to service support management and...

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