Oct. 8, 2007, 1:14PM BMC's new product line, acquisition to complement business strategy
By BRAD HEM Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Houston-based BMC Software announced a new product line and acquisition today aimed at complementing the company's strategy of making information technology operations more efficient. Company IT departments spend more than 70 percent of their time maintaining their technology infrastructure as opposed to finding ways for technology to improve how it does business, according to a Forrester Research survey. The launch of BMC's service automation and the acquisition of Emprisa Networks will keep the company at the top of an increasingly competitive software niche, said Forrester Research senior analyst Evelyn Hubbert. BMC did not release terms of the Emprisa acquisition. "The real goal here is to reduce that part of the IT budget that gets spent just keeping the lights on," said Herb VanHook, BMC's vice president of corporate strategy. The service automation launch is in part the result of BMC's July acquisition of software automation company RealOps. http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/5196762.html Click on the link to read the reader comments! WOW Sounds like a bitter ex-employee. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
