BMC Software Improves the Value and Impact of IT Resources with IT Business Management OnDemand

BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) today announced that the BMC IT Business Management (ITBM) OnDemand solution is now available. BMC’s IT Business Management solutions empower IT organizations to efficiently manage the business of IT with complete visibility and control.

The BMC IT Business Management OnDemand suite of solutions includes:

• Service Cost Management OnDemand to achieve visibility into the true cost of IT services;
• IT Financial Planning and Analysis OnDemand to improve the speed and reliability of IT financial planning and budgeting cycles;
• Demand and Resource Management OnDemand that provides project portfolio management and aligns IT staff, assets and resources with enterprise demand;
• Supplier Management OnDemand to benchmark, manage and optimize IT vendors; and
• A single named user option for the entire ITBM suite providing full functionality at a reduced cost.

"At AAA, IT enhances its business value by aligning with investments and priorities of the business units. We chose BMC’s IT Business Management suite because it provides the centralized management we require to enable cost transparency, maximize efficiency and control costs across IT financials, suppliers and project portfolios,” said Steve O’Connor, chief information officer at AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah Insurance Exchange. "With ITBM, I can choose to deploy OnPremise or OnDemand and can change along with my business requirements.”

These new solutions provide critical information that CIOs and IT leaders need to make better business decisions about how to manage and utilize their resources. Offering BMC ITBM in a choice of SaaS or OnPremise delivery models gives IT leaders greater flexibility, agility and choice for how to strategically deploy IT Business Management.

"The state of IT financial visibility today is poor. Even in large, global firms, most IT organizations lack a single version of the truth about the finances of IT, presented in a meaningful fashion,” said Barbara Gomolski, managing vice president of IT Management at Gartner. "The need for greater cost transparency in IT is not new, but has become more pressing due to changes in IT delivery models, the need to prune the IT application portfolio and the requirement for ongoing cost optimization.”

IT organizations are under increasing pressure to not only provide transparency into the exact costs of IT Services, but also to prove the value that IT provides the enterprise. The IT Business Management OnDemand solution enables fact-based decisions that improve business alignment and deliver faster business value.

"BMC IT Business Management OnDemand delivers the only integrated SaaS-based approach to managing the business of IT,” said Rohit Gupta, vice president of Research and Development at BMC Software. "The solution bridges information silos across demand, supply, resources, financials and risk to provide a single system of record for visibility, coordination and control of IT.”

The IT Business Management OnDemand solution is the latest SaaS offering from BMC, which already offers SaaS versions of its leading IT Service Management solutions, BMC Remedyforce Service Desk and BMC Remedy OnDemand.

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