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Newly-private BMC gets cloud/social/mainframe (!) religion

Warning: Disruption ahead. Once the new products emerge.

Newly-privatised BMC thinks it can re-invent - nay, disrupt - itself by cashing in on on all of 2014's biggest buzzwords: cloud, social, mobile and disruption. And mainframe, for good measure.

The company's recently-appointed head of global sales Paul Appleby today told The Reg in Sydney today that one of the reasons he joined from Salesforce.com was that BMC's various products mean it is ideally-positioned to pipe data out of legacy systems. Businesses are desperate to get data out of legacy systems, he said, and into the cloud, social, mobile disruptors that business simply must have these days in order to avoid being picked off by whichever Uber clone targets the industry they inhabit.

BMC expresses this as “marrying the “industrialised” data centre with the new world of cloud/social/mobile.

The company's flung an extra US$120m at R&D to make this happen, and Appleby promised imminent announcements will detail analytics, automation and other products that extend BMC's current portfolio to realise its new vision. Already released and said to be evidence of the new approach is the MyIT tool and Remedy With SmartIT, a tool for IT pros that “offers IT professionals an intelligent, mobile and beautiful user experience, enabling them to tap mobile and social technologies for better service delivery while providing intuitive access to technology across the enterprise.”

Or in other words a pretty control freak that borrows from social media.

Appleby said the efforts required to transform disrupt develop new products and approaches could not have been accomplished as a public company because investors would have panicked at the prospect of higher costs and lower revenues as products shift from licences to SaaS. Going private has therefore given the company the scrutiny holiday needed to make some big calls.

Appleby ducked substantial comment on the topic of BMC's recent sueball lobbed at ServiceNow, citing the sanctity of the justice system. But he did say that BMC has runs on the patent scoreboard while ServiceNow doesn't. ®

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