HOUSTON – BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) today announced the immediate availability of BMC Atrium Configuration Management System (CMS) Essentials, a new solution offering that provides customers a “starter kit” for Business Service Management (BSM) and the adoption of best practices as defined by IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®).

Today’s IT organizations are under great pressure to support their companies’ business-critical applications and services. The industry’s only purpose-built CMS solution and part of BMC’s core architecture, BMC Atrium CMS Essentials increases the rate of successful change implementation, reduces mean time to repair and trouble tickets, and improves IT business responsiveness, while lowering the cost of infrastructure and management tools. The solution’s combination of application programming interfaces (API) and federation allows customers to build upon existing IT investments.

Grounded in ITIL, BSM provides an ideal strategy for ensuring that IT’s mission is aligned to business priorities. BMC Atrium CMS Essentials accelerates that alignment process by bringing together complementary technologies that provide customers a strong foundation for BSM and automation, preventing stalled or failed deployments and maximizing the value of IT investments. By facilitating a streamlined approach, BMC Atrium CMS Essentials enables organizations to integrate even the most diverse IT environment.

Yphise, a leading European information technology (IT) research firm, recently awarded BMC’s CMS Essentials and BMC Atrium CMDB with top honors based on a thorough product evaluation. Yphise found that “BMC Atrium CMDB (BMC) provides best coverage of our list of requirements… This highlights its maturity and suitability for investing in this business case.”

As part of BMC Atrium CMS Essentials, BMC has included the BMC Blueprint Methodology, a proven approach that ensures the successful deployment of a CMDB. It provides a special focus on the initial evaluation and planning stages, helping customers to carefully define both their IT and business goals and create a plan to achieve them.

“BMC Atrium CMS Essentials delivers powerful new capabilities that allow customers to make profitable changes to their IT management without a massive overhaul of their existing infrastructure,” said Jim Grant, senior vice president and general manager of BMC’s Enterprise Service Management business unit. “We are arming forward-looking IT departments with a proven, process-based methodology that will promote successful deployments and greater ROI by aligning existing resources with longer-term strategic initiatives.”

Additionally, BMC announced the Atrium product line has been expanded to include BMC Atrium Orchestrator, formerly known as BMC Run Book Automation. Similar to other Atrium products, BMC Atrium Orchestrator is a horizontal technology, meaning that it brings dramatic efficiencies through the automation of labor intensive, error-prone tasks across the entire IT service management spectrum.

BMC Atrium CMS Essentials includes the following products:
· BMC Atrium CMDB links IT processes together through a common repository providing graphical, business-relevant views of the IT infrastructure.
· BMC Discovery enriches the CMDB by automatically discovering people, processes, applications and IT infrastructure data to provide an up-to-date representation of relationships within the IT environment.
BMC Dashboard and Analytics provides click-and-point analysis and advanced · reporting across IT Operations and Support, consolidating critical IT process data into a customizable dashboard view.

For more information about BMC Atrium CMS Essentials or any other product within the Atrium family, please visit: www.bmc.com/atrium.

BMC Software
BMC Software Inc. [NYSE: BMC] è leader nelle soluzioni di enterprise management che permettono alle aziende di gestire le infrastrutture IT dal punto di vista del business. Attraverso la strategia Business Service Management le soluzioni BMC Software consentono ai clienti di avere una visione completa del business e delle operazioni IT collegando le risorse IT direttamente agli obiettivi del business. Costituita nel 1980, BMC ha fatturato nell'esercizio 2006 circa 1,5 miliardi di dollari. Per ulteriori informazioni: www.bmc.com.
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