Accenture and BMC Software have expanded their long-standing relationship with two technology agreements, one for the joint development and implementation of BMC Business Service Management (BSM) solutions and another for the provision of consulting and integration services to BMC’s Professional Services organization.
Under the first agreement, the two companies will jointly develop, market and implement packaged and custom BSM solutions. BSM provides businesses with a single, integrated IT automation and management platform. Adopting this platform approach enables customers to extract maximum return on their IT investments, while also leveraging key new technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS).
Accenture and BMC will focus initially on an integrated IT service management solution (ITSM) based on BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database, BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite and Accenture technology consulting services. The combined offerings will provide companies with an integrated IT automation and management platform that allows them to see how their IT systems are performing while also allowing them to lower their costs and accelerate business growth.
Under the second agreement, BMC will leverage Accenture technology professionals to increase the capacity of its delivery and implementation capabilities with a dedicated Accenture team providing consulting and integration services to BMC’s Professional Services organization. The new team will help implement business service management solutions for BMC and its clients.
“BMC’s business service management offerings aim to help IT organizations deliver services more efficiently, reduce costs and improve application performance,” said Mary Johnston Turner, IDC Enterprise Systems management research director. “IDC is seeing increasing demand for data center automation, capacity planning and analytic tools to help IT organizations streamline operations and cope with the operational complexity caused by virtualization and cloud computing. The extended relationship between Accenture and BMC directly targets these challenges.”
Many major analyst firms estimate that the global market opportunity for all elements of BSM to exceed US$15 billion.
“Many of our clients are challenged by the increasing complexity of IT and the business services that IT supports,” said Rockwell Bonecutter, senior executive and Global Lead for Accenture Alliance Channel Management. “Governance and compliance requirements are escalating rapidly, and the demand for an integrated view of business process management has never been greater. This expanded relationship combines the power of BMC Software’s solutions with Accenture’s proven expertise in technology consulting services and represents a big opportunity for both companies to deliver even more value to our clients.”
“To meet their financial, service delivery, governance and compliance mandates, IT organizations must see and control all parts of their infrastructure through a single, integrated management platform. BMC’s Business Service Management software provides that platform. Designed to leverage BMC’s next generation IT management technology and Accenture’s services, this new team will enable customers to accelerate their BSM implementations and increase their return on investment,” said John McMahon, BMC’s senior vice president for worldwide sales and services. ***
If you are buying technology, RFPConnect is the place to meet the companies
that are selling it. RFPConnect provides templates for buyers to issue Requests
for Information (RFIs), Reguests for Proposals (RFPs) and Requests for Quotations
(RFQs). The site also provides a searchable directory and database of technology
vendors across the full range of industrial, commercial, financial and public sectors.
If you are selling technology, RFPConnect is the place to showcase your applications
or consultancy skills in searchable directories and product databases. The site
also provides technology vendors with the opportunity to publish news releases about
version upgrades, mandates won and other news about the company. Last but not least,
the RFP Exchange is a source of new business opportunities in the private and public
sectors.
To register your organization and its products, click the Register Now
link on the right hand side of this page and follow the registration procedure.
It will only take a few minutes - but it could lead to millions of dollars.
PriceMetrix is a software firm that helps retail wealth management firms and their advisors optimize selling efforts, manage clients, identify growth opportunit ...
Steve Husk, CEO of FRSGlobal, discusses the factors financial institutions are faced with in order to equip themselves against the current regulatory environment.
The adoption of IFRS for Canadian companies is in full swing. As of January 1, 2010, Canadian companies are required to file financial statements under IFRS. Although Canadian GAAP and IFRS are similar, there are three main differences that have posed a challenge for companies: effectiveness testing, hedge accounting eligibility, and fair value measurement. While not an exhaustive list, these issues have posed the greatest challenge for Canadian corporations during the first quarter of 2010. The following paper clarifies some of the differences in hedge accounting between Canadian GAAP and IFRS and shares best practices for hedge accounting to help Canadian corporations navigate through the transition.
With this Spring 2010 Edition of the Phone System Comparison Chart quickly see differences between brands like Avaya, Mitel, Cisco, ShoreTel, 8x8, Panasonic, etc and compare over 94 phone systems by 52 brands for small to big business.
PriceMetrix is a software firm that helps retail wealth management firms and their advisors optimize selling efforts, manage clients, identify growth opportunit ...
