BMC Software SA, a leading global provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to automate their IT and align it to the needs of the business, will be hosting its Forum event on Thursday, 4 October 2007, at Vodaworld, in Midrand, Johannesburg.
The forum will focus on a number of important industry topics, including: Data Centres of the Future: When a silo dies, who will be around to hear it? and: Mainframe Importance Today and Tomorrow in a BSM Strategy.
The event will also play host to BMC international guest speaker, Peter Armstrong, talking on business service management (BSM); international BMC mainframe Vice-President Nick Glover; the world's foremost authority on ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Pink Elephant; and Arjen Wiersma, country manager for BMC Software sub-Saharan Africa.
Mainframe continues to be an important and influential industry talking point with BMC's recent (annual) global mainframe survey concluding that companies still view the mainframe as a viable and healthy platform; crucial to the success of mission-critical applications.
The survey also stated that companies identified BMC as the overall technology leader in the space, specifically in the DB2, IMS, batch scheduling, monitoring and automation product segments.
In addition to its keynote addresses, the BMC Software SA Forum will - during its breakaway sessions - focus on relevant topics, such as: Transform IT Operations by becoming Proactive: Service Impact and Event Management and Getting Value from your CMDB; as well as a BSM customer case study with Absa Capital. Attendees will also learn more about how BMC Software's strategies and solutions can strengthen companies' BSM endeavours.
"Our forum event provides the ideal platform for IT professionals and users to obtain the absolute latest information on key industry developments such as BSM, ITIL and mainframe," comments Wiersma.
"The forum will provide our partners with an opportunity to showcase BMC products, demonstrating how their services adhere to today's real-world technology and infrastructure challenges."
BMC Software is currently one of the world's leading providers of service desk solutions. The company has, together with CA and HP, more than 50% of the world's IT service desk tool market share, according to Gartner's IT Services Desk Magic Quadrant 2007.
Additionally, the company has, according to results from the first quarter of fiscal 2008, for the ninth consecutive quarter met or exceeded revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share guidance.
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BMC Software is a leading global provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to automate their IT and align it to the needs of the business. Delivering business service management, BMC solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. For the four fiscal quarters ended 30 June 2007, BMC revenue was approximately $1.6 billion. For more information, visit www.bmc.com.
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