Focus on Business Service Management: BMC Buys ITM
BMC’s purchase of ITM is only the latest in its string of acquisitions calculated to make it a formidable player in the ERP market. This four year march included the following acquisitions:
• RealOps which automates IT processing: see BMC Buys Into IT Process Automation• Calendra an identity management specialist: see BMC Grabs ID Management Vendor
• BladeLogic a player in the field of change management: see BMC to Buy BladeLogic For Nearly $800M
ITM’s software integrates the segregated silos of the IT management of the past to provide “visibility, coordination and control” for the CIO. This translates into a more efficient decision making process. BMC’s vice president, Herb Van Hook, described ITM as
a set of very high-level applications IT uses to run itself as a business organization within the enterprise
and the software
asks whether you're doing the right projects; what is the business impact of this project versus that project
See Richard Adhikari’s excellent article in InternetNews.com BMC Completes ITM Acquisition: Software company moves toward a business-oriented view of IT. In it he details the ITM acquisition and discusses the competition in the IT Resource Planning (“ITRP”) space. Adhikari reports that BMC’s acquisition strategy is aimed at partners and so there is “very little overlap” which translates into less integration in its software suite. It remains to be seen if BMC can rollout this new product into its customer base.
