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> On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:34, Blairing <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> From the opening Keynote. Just my notes, no editing allowed! From the Keynote 
> opening BMC Engage 2014
> 
> Introduction film by Steven Hawking,
> 
> Opening remarks by Paul Appleby, BMC exec VP Worldwide sales and marketing, 
> referencing Hawking and Steve Jobs, and introducing "a whole new BMC."
> 
> Bob Beauchamp, BMC CEO and chairman, welcoming customers, employees, press. 
> His Topics to be: Wild and crazy stuff happening in the IT support industry: 
> digitalization era.  And what BNC has been doing to address digitalization 
> behind the scenes.  
> 
>   Next Year's Engage will be at the Aria in Las Vegas
>   New BMC logo - "double helix" connotes digital DNA
>   New BMC, private ownership, increased funding, new internal organization, 
> new customer facing innovations, increased R&D and marketing vs plans in 
> public company era
>   3rd era... It craftsmanship, 2nd IT industrialization, 3rd IT 
> digitalization. A disruptive era encompassing social, mobile, big data, cloud.
>   Era of digitalization will transform nay industries beyond IT, much as 
> downloads and itunes disrupted media and entertainment
>   List of disruptive technologies.... Mobile internet, robotics, 3d painting, 
> Internet if things, energy storage, renewable energy etc. some commentary on 
> Disney fast-pass and technology used to enhance the guest experience in the 
> parks. 3d printers in space can manufacture things in space (at international 
> space station now)
>    Autonomous vehicles. Insurance acne premiums down 90% ? Impact of 
> autonomous vehicles leads to using transportations as a service rather than 
> owning a personal car. Amazon, Google, may automotive companies working on 
> this technology.
>    Internet of things - 7.3 billion SIM cards, 7.2 billion humans. 50 billion 
> devices on Internet by 2020. All generating enormous amounts of data. Only 1 
> percent of this is being analyzed. The old ways of managing this many devices 
> will NOT scale to this number of Devices. Trouble tickets won't do it.
>    Two speeds of IT: Big machines with centralized processing will be 
> enormous. Cost of compute reduces by 33%/year, network speed down 28/year. IT 
> operations cost, however, not declining. Second speed is IT operations speed. 
> Intertia of the organization itself limits the speed at which new concepts 
> can be explored and deployed. IT may be overwhelmed by volume of data and 
> processing which is necessitated by Internet of things. IT management of 
> processes must happen and cannot be accomplished by traditional 
> organizational structures. Must have an integrated strategy to adjust for 
> both volume of data/processing strength and organization of processes and 
> procedures to handle the evolution.
>    Industrial IT and Innovation IT
>    Bring IT to Life
>       Intuitive solutions
>       High speed innovation
>       Industrialized solutions
> 
> MyIT now has > 1 million users....
> SmartIT - new interface for IT staff service management users
> TrueSight - new methods of analysis for performance and availability issues
> SmartFlows - process management for service restoration including self 
> service and knowledge management
> 
> Welcome to a New era in IT, to a new BMC, and to Engage
> 
> More to come.... Next:
> 
> Paul Appleby talk about Transforming The Digital Enterprise
> 
> Our lives are changing, Paul travels a lot, subscribes to technologies like 
> Skype which allow him to leverage available services to help him live the 
> life he wishes. Challenge with this how are these compelling and 
> transformational services delivered?
> 
> Most companies are living in the eras of data processing, process automation 
> and the cloud/Social/'Mobile/Connected world, all at the same time. Example 
> in a telecommunications provided: Customer billing data is on mainframes at 
> at data center, but end user provisioning is cloud and scattered and somewhat 
> chaotic.b
> 
> Video demonstrates share, touch, work and discover.  Introducing "Living IT 
> from BMC," I assume this is a commercial. 
> 
> 6 transformational imperatives for embracing IT as the enterprise, 
> digitalization
> 
>   Intuitive experience
>      Example most ohone apps, no instructions needed
>   Actionable intelligence
>       Apps deliver useful stats
>   Agile  applications
>       Delivery of innovation applications must be designed into the 
> platforms, allowing business agility
>    Adaptive automation
>        Not only from infrastructure perspective but also process evolution
>     Optimized infrastructure
>     Compliance and risk mitigation
>         Trust must be built in
> 
> As BMC brings IT to live, BMC will be working with customers to understand 
> the relationships between a business and their clients/customers, and to 
> optimize the way new services and useful apps are delivered.
> 
> Case studies for Swedish coast guard and vodaphone
> 
> Next up.... Demos!
> 
> Robin Purohit, president of service support, and Bill Beritti president 
> performance and availability.
> 
> We're seeing the story of a business suddenly overwhelmed by customer demand 
> r a new product, and how this is reported, measured and addressed. I won't 
> try to transcribe the videos here, but something tells me your BMC rep has a 
> copy.  Website too, I assume. One of them focuses on the BMC Engage teddy 
> bear we found on our seats!  The video story introduces new features and 
> products found in APM, MyIT, SmartIT, TrueSight for It data analytics, cloud 
> lifecycle management and how they all work together.
> 
> SmartIT is FREE to all of the Remedy installed base (requires 7.6.4 or higher)
> 
> Paul Appleby returns to stage...., introduces Pail Avenant, BMC Chief 
> Customer Officer
> 
> May you live in interesting times....
> 
> Customer success depends on cohesive integration between technology and 
> innovation, delivering the value customer envisions. BMC is further committed 
> to being involved with customers enterprise rather than just selling a box of 
> parts.  
> Paul cites analysis of IT projects consistently about 30% behind schedule, 
> 60+% over budget, and delivering less than expected results. What you (us, as 
> BMC customers) want is a partnership with a company focused in delivering a 
> successful integrated project rather than just installed a single portion of 
> a solution. Whole picture needs to be supported and understood. Every part of 
> BMC organization has been challenged to step up and address the end to end 
> experience of the customers clients.
> 
> If you're standing still, you're falling behind
> 
> Product side - new products myIT, SmartIT.  Improvements to the product 
> development process
> Sales side - sales force trained to do value based selling, understanding 
> your business objectives and then proposing solutions that address whole 
> process
> Post sales - 
> Support side. - focused on responding faster and more complete
> 
> Customer focus, (Paul's area of expertise) look at the end to end experience 
> of the customer
> Creation of new organization, customer success organization, reporting 
> directly to CEO, including BNC professional services, customer support and 
> customer success management. BNC affirms their success is iced to customer's 
> success.
> 
> New org is committed to making sure that you actually get the value and the 
> maximum value from the processes that you select to accomplish your goals. 
> 
> [email protected] is Paul's address! Who you gonna call? He's at +1 713-918-1650...
> 
> BMC Innovation awards:
> 
> BMC received so many nominations that they could not award just one. 
> 
> compass, Sarnoff (siri, that's wrong), SAP, BNY Mellon, Morningstar, Net 
> (sorry, missed that one) . Formal awards on Wednesday afternoon....
> Finalists: BNY Mellon, Orange, VodaPhone, Seu Mundo NexTel.  These folks are 
> sitting right in front of us.....
> Innovation award goes to....VODAPHONE....
> 
> Paul Appleby thanks us for coming, welcomes larger sponsors:
> 
> Unisys, Ed Vaccaro speaks.
> 
> Digital economy has been the biggest transformation ever seen. UNISYS focus 
> on mission critical systems, end users are shaping consumption of technology. 
> End user is the innovator, IT must adapt to the ways end users want to use IT 
> services.
> 
>   Think about business model, not tech model
>   Design for people
>   Think differently about security
>   Use what is actionable to tame big data
>   Recognize that technology is more complex and more critical than ever
> 
> Example of data services provided to a global scale volunteer health care 
> organization
> Example of Pennsylvania outsourcing to UNISYS provided cloud model, largest 
> private secure cloud in state government, CLM model for self service 
> provisioning of cloud resources
> Example of FIFA World Cup in Brazil. UNISYS part of IT consortium at World 
> Cup. New mobility infrastructure integrated public safety agencies
> 
> UNISYS thanks BMC for ongoing relationship.
> 
> Paul Appleby back on stage....wrap up....
> 
> More later!
> 
> Doug
> 
> --
> Doug Blair
> +1 224-558-5462
> 
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> Auto-corrected typos, misspellings and non-sequiturs are gratefully 
> attributed to Steve Jobs :-)
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