Posts Tagged ‘Business Service Management’

Emergent and Emerging Technologies

{ Posted on May 24 2007 by annegentle }
What are some of the emerging technologies in IT? I was asked recently about blogs or websites that discuss emerging technologies especially as related to IT and business service management. Now, when I hear the term “emergent ...Read More »

Eating our own dog food, or sipping our own champagne

{ Posted on Jul 27 2006 by annegentle }
How we strive to achieve BSM at BMC Eating your own dog food. The phrase comes from the early television advertising genre when people would ask, but will the dog eat the food? Today it's categorized as ...Read More »

Examples of software and IT services related to business

{ Posted on Jul 22 2006 by annegentle }
The reaction to the problem more important than the root cause I was intrigued by the tagline on this new blog, g2zero: Better Code == Business, which I take to mean that better code is equivalent to better business. ...Read More »

Working on a paper about resource management for servers and applications

{ Posted on Jul 05 2006 by annegentle }
When you have resources that have multiple uses and users like test servers in a computer lab, how do you schedule and reserve them? Here at BMC, we have test labs that serve many product lines and the labs ...Read More »

Celebrating moms and parenthood in the workplace

{ Posted on May 15 2006 by annegentle }
Parenting, does it make you a better employee? We celebrated Mother's Day in the U.S. yesterday, and I came across an article that I enjoyed. I thought I'd share in celebratation of moms and parents everywhere. This USA ...Read More »

Photos from the forum

{ Posted on Oct 19 2005 by annegentle }
I took some photos at the BMC Forum in Dallas October 2005 I had some fun with my digital SLR pretending to be a photojournalist. Here are some photos of activity at the forum. Chip and Stephen work for Dell ...Read More »

Tuesday BMC Performance Manager session at the BMC Forum 05 in Dallas

{ Posted on Oct 18 2005 by annegentle }
Reporting from a conference room set at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, here's your roving blogger reporting from Dallas Blogging live is harder than it sounds. Fortunately the wireless connection is behaving in two of the session rooms I've been in ...Read More »

Examples of news stories where IT directly affects business

{ Posted on Oct 18 2005 by annegentle }
Jim Grant's keynote address at today's BMC Forum offered some interesting news clips I am always on the lookout for news stories that highlight the connections between IT and business, and Jim Grant had some great news ...Read More »

Where are you on your route?

{ Posted on Sep 19 2005 by annegentle }
Last week I talked about the journey along a route to value. Today I'll point you to a tool to assess where you are on your journey. I said last week that the Route To Value approach makes it possible for ...Read More »

Ah ha! Discovery along your route

{ Posted on Sep 15 2005 by annegentle }
Discussing what is a route to value, anyway? I just started on a Routes To Value writing team this summer, and I had a lot to read just to try to wrap my head around a route to value. ...Read More »