The document discusses configuration management and compliance as two halves of a whole that must be addressed together. It outlines challenges with the manual approach to compliance such as audits being out of date, incomplete, and inconsistently implemented. The document then presents BMC Software's policy-based approach to automating compliance and remediation through continuous monitoring and bidirectional synchronization with policies. Customers can realize significant cost savings through automation and ensuring continuous compliance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments with BMC's unified platform.
13. $6.3M year one operations savings
$1.5M year one vendor license savings
26 Month Anticipated payback period
Over 30K managed servers
95% Reduction in crashes caused by
configuration changes
90% Reduction in emergency system
changes
Operations can automatically track
changes and delegate selected
administrative tasks to subgroups
18. Public Company (Nasdaq: BMC)
Strategy
•Become the industry’s de facto IT management platform
•Committed to heterogeneity across cloud, virtual, distributed,
and mainframe
•Strong R&D investment with targeted M&A
Key Strengths
•One of the ten largest public ISVs (Fiscal 2012 revenues of
$2.2B)
•Financially strong – highly profitable, strong cash and securities
position, low debt
•Development centers around the world
•187 software technology patents
•Market leading solutions
•20,000 customers in 120+ countries