BMC Software has announced that its BMC CONTROL-M job-scheduling solution has been positioned in Gartner's recently released "Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling, 2006" research report. [1]
BMC CONTROL-M is one of the cornerstone products used to implement business service management (BSM), an ITIL-based approach for aligning the entire IT environment to the goals of the business.
Since its advent in 2003, BSM has been very popular with customers, a fact that continues to drive significant growth for BMC.
"We believe this report positions the CONTROL-M solution extremely well as a leader in this space," said Gur Steif, vice-president of Scheduling and Output Management Solutions.
"CONTROL-M helps customers manage business impacts 'down to the minute', and it is an important part of connecting the mainframe environment into the larger BSM IT management strategy. Whether focused on retail, financial or manufacturing, companies are turning to BMC to manage their most critical IT business processes, and the success of CONTROL-M is a great example of that trend."
The industry's first agent-less scheduling solution, BMC CONTROL-M provides enterprise CIOs and their IT management teams with an integrated, single-view management console that cuts across mainframe and distributed systems, including those previously considered inaccessible. BMC CONTROL-M integrates with other BMC solutions to enable enterprises to correlate specific jobs to the business processes they automate, assess the business impact and assign Service Level Agreements based on business priorities.
Combined with a BMC Atrium configuration management database (CMDB), batch services can be discovered or stored from CONTROL-M, which greatly improves the change management process in the job-scheduling environment.
Today, more than 2 000 organisations have installed BMC CONTROL-M, the vast majority of which replaced an existing scheduling tool, and are leveraging the solution to meet BSM objectives.
According to the Gartner report, Gartner evaluates technology providers on "the quality and efficacy of the processes, systems, methods or procedures that enable IT provider performance to be competitive, efficient and effective, and to positively affect revenue, retention and reputation. Ultimately, vendors are judged on their ability and success in capitalising on their vision."
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