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BMC Software, Inc.
Type Public (NYSE: BMC)
Founded September 1980
Headquarters Houston, TX, USA
Key people Robert E. Beauchamp - (Chairman, President and CEO),
Stephen B. Solcher - (CFO)
Industry Enterprise software
IT Services and Management
Mainframe
Products See Article
Revenue ▲ $1.87 billion USD (FY09)
Employees 5,800 (2008)
Website www.bmc.com

BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC is headquartered at 2101 CityWest Boulevard in the Westchase district of Houston, Texas, United States.[1][2] BMC currently[when?] has more than 6,000 employees worldwide, and is a member of the S&P 500. For the four quarters ending September 30, 2007, the company posted revenues of $1.64B.

BMC was an early adopter of Business Service Management (BSM), through which the company provides software packages that enable clients to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. This continues to be a primary focus for BMC.[3]

BMC's organization consists of 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.[4]

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[edit] Locations

BMC's headquarters are in Houston, Texas; their international headquarters are located in Amsterdam and Singapore. They also operate 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 the United Arab Emirates. They have research and development offices 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.

[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 focus on software available for IBM mainframes, the industry standard at the time. In July 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.

BMC grew under Watson from 500 employees to over 7000, with sales figures increasing from 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 business changes including the move of BMC's stock to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the reorganization of BMC into two primary business units, and the introduction of Business Service Management.[5]

[edit] Focus

BMC initially focused on products that offered improvements to existing mainframe infrastructure. In an effort to be more competitive, this emphasis expanded via several acquisitions in the late 1980s and early 1990s to include network software. BMC currently concentrates on both mainframe software and network-computing software.

[edit] Products

Screenshot of BMC Configuration Discovery's ability to detect bad batteries in computers

BMC markets its products in four different categories.[6]

  • Service Impact Management - tools for event management and IT service delivery. These products aim to relate the IT infrastructure to business services in order to 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 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. BMC states that these products enable the delivery of IT services to various business functions.
  • Application Management - these products address users’ application environments. They operate regardless of platform or application and claim to reduce complexity and improve reliability.
  • IT Operations, Database and Infrastructure Management - these products interoperate with third-party enterprise management technologies. They include BMC's Database Management, Security Management and Infrastructure Management solutions.

[edit] Acquisitions

  • ITM Software - June 2008
  • 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, Inc. - 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[7]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "SECT1-key.gif." Westchase. Retrieved on February 5, 2009.
  2. ^ "Contact BMC." BMC Software. Retrieved on February 5, 2009.
  3. ^ "Partners Back BSM Vision". InfoWorld. http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/03/10/15/HNbmcpartners_1.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-01. 
  4. ^ "BMC Company Profile". REUTERS. http://www.investor.reuters.wallst.com/stocks/company-profile.asp?rpc=66&ticker=BMC. Retrieved on 2007-02-01. 
  5. ^ "BMC History". Answers.com. http://www.answers.com/bmc%20software. Retrieved on 2007-02-05. 
  6. ^ "BMC Product Families". BMC Software, Inc.. http://www.bmc.com/BMC/Products/CDA/hou_Products_Index/0,2830,19052_23655657,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-01. 
  7. ^ "Acquisition History". Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/4490397.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-01. 

[edit] External links

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