BrainBlog for BMC Software by Jason Bloomberg
When BMC got its start in 1980, the mainframe was the only game in town. Forty-two years later, the mainframe is still an important part of BMC’s business. According to BMC’s annual mainframe survey, 95 percent of respondents—many of whom BMC has been supporting for years—remain committed to the venerable platform.
The question for BMC, therefore, is how to remain relevant in the modern, cloud-centric IT world?
One word: innovation.
BMC’s Four-Pronged Product Strategy
BMC drives innovation across its entire product line, which coalesces into four broad product categories. Its mainframe offerings remain at the core, with the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) family, as well as the BMC Compuware DevOps tools for the mainframe.
BMC has also long been a leader in the service management market. Today, its flagship service management brand is BMC Helix, both on-premises and as a fully reworked SaaS offering. Third on the list is application workflow orchestration and automation within the company’s Control-M product line, available as either via SaaS or on premises.
Rounding out BMC’s offering are its AIOps and observability tools, also under the BMC Helix brand. In particular, BMC has recently announced BMC Helix ServiceOps, which combines service management and operations management into a single, predictive tool.
While BMC Helix and Control-M aren’t specific to the mainframe, the combination of capabilities that these products offer provides a clear value proposition to BMC’s mainframe customers, who all place the mainframe into the broader context of hybrid IT.
For these enterprises, the mainframe no longer stands alone in their IT strategies. Today, large organizations are moving to hybrid, cloud-native architectures. It’s imperative for such companies to modernize how they leverage their mainframes within this new context.
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