Hot Posts for May
In “The Realities of the BSM Challenge” I shared my comments on the Michael Biddick article on the BSM space. Still no response from Michael and comments I made on his follow up apparently were not approved? I’d like to see folks like Michael and the Windward team share their thoughts and ideas on how to be successful with BSM with their vendor agnostic background and focus. Maybe the article series Michael publishes could focus on this as well.
This led right into many discussions on what can and should be done to make BSM easier. In “The World Needs BSM Lite”, Peter and the Net Forecast team share their thoughts on what this “BSM Lite” may be. I follow suit in “In Search of BSM Lite”. Peter and the Net Forecast team spoke with me to understand some of my thoughts and ideas which they captured here in “Thoughts on Implementing BSM “Lite”: Interview with Doug McClure.
Compuware 2.0 was finally launched and I actually got a couple Compuware employees to join the conversation about where they’re headed and how BSM may evolve under their “2.0” moniker.
The FireScope team’s much anticipated countdown to a new focus for making BSM easier and achievable for the masses was uncovered this month as FireScope BSM Business Edition (BE). This firmly establishes FireScope as a BSM player in the SMB and enterprise space as an easier to deploy, cost effective alternative to the incumbent “Big 4” companies. I’ll share more on this soon.
Quest Software’s Foglight team has established a Foglight Community and has many Product Managers blogging. I’m pleased to welcome Tyler and Greg to the conversation and look forward to their transparency and innovation in the BSM space!
IBM Tivoli’s inaugural converged user’s conference called Pulse took place in Orlando this month. I’ve shared my thoughts here. The presentation and audio from my TBSM session is available here. Stay tuned for more BSM oriented sessions and audio.
Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) Posts
TBSM v4.1 Interim Fix 11 was released this month.
On the To-Do List for June
More Pulse presentations and audio on the blog.
WYNTK on TBSM Design Patterns (finally)