BMC Software
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| BMC Software, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public (NYSE: BMC) |
| Founded | September 1980 |
| Headquarters | Houston, TX, USA |
| Key people | Garland Cupp - (Chairman), Robert E. Beauchamp - (President and CEO), Stephen B. Solcher - (CFO) |
| Industry | Enterprise software IT Services |
| Products | See Article |
| Revenue | ▲ $1.49 billion USD (FY2006) |
| Employees | 6,000 (2007) |
| Website | www.bmc.com |
BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Major industry analyst firms such as Forrester Research indicate that BMC pioneered the concept of Business Service Management (BSM), through which the company provides software solutions that enable companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective.[1]
BMC's organization is broken out into two main business segments, Mainframe Service Management (MSM) and Enterprise Service Management (ESM). The MSM segment consists of the current Mainframe Management segment and its enterprise job scheduling and output management product lines. The ESM segment includes its Service Management and Identity management business, the Distributed Systems Management, and BMC Performance Manager product lines, as well as the Transaction Management product line established as a result of its acquisition of Identify Software, Ltd. in May 2006.[2]
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[edit] BMC Quick Facts
[edit] Company Mission
- To be the leading provider of enterprise management software solutions by helping customers align their IT infrastructure with their business.[3]
[edit] Company Background
- Founded in September 1980
- Initial public offering in August 1988
- Corporate headquarters located in Houston, Texas
- International headquarters located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Singapore, Singapore
- Operates international offices in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, The Philippines, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and United Arab Emirates
- Market coverage in more than 50 countries
- Research and development offices located in Houston and Austin, TX; San Jose, CA; Atlanta, GA; Waltham, MA; Herndon, VA; Aix-en-Provence, France; Singapore; Tel Aviv and Tel Hai, Israel; Pune and Bangalore, India
- More than 6,000 employees worldwide
- Member of S&P 500
- Products sold through direct sales and indirect channels including resellers, system integrators and original equipment manufacturers
[edit] Company Financial Information
- For the four quarters ending September 30, 2007, the company posted revenues of $1.64B.
[edit] Company Facts
- Holds 94 software technology patents
- Claims to have pioneered the concept Business Service Management
- First application management solution provider via Performance Manager (Formerly PATROL)
- First ISV (independent software vendor) to deliver tools for IBM’s IMS and DB2 databases
- First software vendor to offer a comprehensive management solution for B2B exchanges and extended enterprises
- Invented data stream optimization
[edit] Brief History
During the late 1970s, BMC Software founders Scott Boulett, John Moores, and Dan Cloer began a contract programming partnership that operated in and around Houston, Texas. By 1980, the company was incorporated, and officially became BMC Software, Inc. Moores, the company's first CEO, utilized his experience as a programmer with Shell Oil to improve upon the current software available for IBM mainframes, the industry standard at the time. In July of 1988, BMC made its initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ.
Moores stepped down as acting President and CEO of BMC Software in 1987. He was succeeded by Max Watson. Moores retired as BMC chairman in 1992, and at that time Watson assumed the position of chairman as well.
During Watson's tenure as CEO and Chairman, BMC grew from 500 employees to over 7000. As well, during the same period sales increased from figures equaling less than $100 million in 1987 to $1.7 billion.
Watson was succeeded by BMC's former senior vice president of product management and development, Robert "Bob" Beauchamp (pronounced as "Bee-chum"). During his tenure as BMC's President and CEO, Beauchamp has overseen critical business changes, such as the move of BMC's stock to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the reorganization of BMC into two primary business units (see above); a strategy intended to streamline sales and marketing processes, and the introduction of Business Service Management; an approach for managing IT according to the needs and perspective of the business.[4]
[edit] Focus
During the majority of the 1980s, BMC's focus centered around products that offered improvements to existing mainframe infrastructure. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, BMC engaged in a series of strategic acquisitions aimed to position the company firmly within the highly competitive market of network software. By 1996, BMC had become an industry leader in both mainframe software and network computing software.
[edit] Products
In order to deliver BSM, BMC focuses its product solutions into four different categories.[5]
- Service Impact Management
Service Impact Management (SIM) solutions extend advanced event management and increase the effectiveness of IT service delivery. Products are designed to help businesses in need of solutions that enable IT organizations to direct their efforts to be inline with business priorities. By relating the IT infrastructure to the critical business services it supports, SIM solutions improve the ability of IT organizations to solve problems and prioritize them within the context of the business.
- IT Service Management
Products in this category enable, improve, and maximize the delivery of IT services that drive business and include Action Request System, Remedy Help Desk service support solutions (originally developed by Remedy Corporation) and Service Desk Express (formerly Magic) and BMC's service delivery solutions such as BMC Event Manager and Enterprise Performance Assurance.
- Application Management
BMC Application Management solutions put users in command of their application environments, regardless of platform or application. Application Management products help control operating costs, reduce application complexity, improve reliability, and manage IT from a business service perspective.
- IT Operations, Database and Infrastructure Management
Products in this category ensure a solid foundation for a successful business and open solutions that interoperate with third-party enterprise management technologies. Products include BMC's Database Management, Security Management and Infrastructure Management solutions.
[edit] Acquisitions
- BladeLogic - April 2008
- Emprisa Networks - Oct 2007
- RealOps, Inc. - July 2007
- ProactiveNet, Inc. - June 2007
- Service Management Partners - April 2007
- Identify Software Ltd. - May 2006
- KMXperts - August 2005
- OpenNetwork - March 2005
- Calendra - January 2005
- Viadyne - July 2004
- Marimba - July 2004
- Magic Solutions - February 2004
- ASA Knowledge - January 2004
- IT Masters - March 2003
- Action Request System, assets from Peregrine Systems - November 2002
- Simulus Limited - April 2002
- AgentSpring - March 2002
- Perform, SA - February 2001
- Sylvain Faust, Inc. - October 2000
- OptiSystems Solutions - August 2000
- Evity Inc. - April 2000
- OTL Software - November 1999
- New Dimension Software - April 1999
- Boole & Babbage, Inc. - March 1999
- BGS Systems - March 1998
- DataTools - May 1997
- HawkNet, Inc. - January 1996
- Peer Networks, Inc. - November 1995
- PATROL Software - January 1994[6]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Partners Back BSM Vision. InfoWorld. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ BMC Company Profile. REUTERS. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ About BMC. BMC Software, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ BMC History. Answers.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
- ^ BMC Product Families. BMC Software, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ Acquisition History. Houston Chronicle. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
