{"id":673,"date":"2008-05-18T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2008-05-18T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T01:49:08","slug":"bmc-cto-response-to-information-week-gloomy-bsm-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/bmc-cto-response-to-information-week-gloomy-bsm-article\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC CTO Response to Information Week Gloomy BSM Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talk.bmc.com\/blogs\/blog-bishop\/cto\/which-came-first-bsm-or-the-bsm-vendor\">BMC&#8217;s CTO Tom Bishop responds<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/software\/systems_management\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207600912\">Michael Biddick&#8217;s Information Week Article<\/a> and adds to the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><em>The article also makes an incorrect generalization by suggesting that smaller vendors do a better job of \u201cplaying well with others.\u201d BMC \u2013 a charter member of the \u2018Big Four\u2019 management vendors \u2013 provides solutions that operate well in heterogeneous environments and integrate with the broadest range of technologies possible.  This allows organizations to utilize current IT investments instead of replacing and beginning anew.  As we tell our customers every day, a correct implementation of BMC\u2019s BSM strategy makes our competitor products better.  This is a fundamental difference between BMC and our competitors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest challenges I see personally, am asked by clients and integrators constantly, and see a very large amount of traffic headed to my blog from Google searches is around integration difficulties with the BMC Atrium CMDB. I&#8217;d like to invite Tom or some of his team to respond and share more about how client&#8217;s investments in other vendor technology and products can be improved, simplified or even realized when they desire to leverage the powerful information in the Atrium CMDB, especially complex service relationships and CI information.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m aware of the new(ish) Atrium Integration Engine, but I&#8217;m pretty sure we (IBM Tivloli) are not exploiting it in any way formally.  Can we get a discussion going or information out there in the BMCDN or other place on integrating BMC Atrium with core IBM Tivoli products.  Put the bad blood aside, let&#8217;s do it for the customers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMC&#8217;s CTO Tom Bishop responds to Michael Biddick&#8217;s Information Week Article and adds to the conversation. The article also makes an incorrect generalization by suggesting that smaller vendors do a better job of \u201cplaying well with others.\u201d BMC \u2013 a charter member of the \u2018Big Four\u2019 management vendors \u2013 provides solutions that operate well in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82,26,38,37],"tags":[502,239,989,926,940,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-big4","7":"category-bmc-software","8":"category-business-service-management","9":"category-ibm","10":"category-implementation","11":"tag-atrium","12":"tag-bmc","13":"tag-bsm","14":"tag-business-service-management","15":"tag-cmdb","16":"tag-integration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}