BMC Puts Process Automation Pieces Together

Software Magazine, Sept, 1999 by Elizabeth U. Harding

Customers of New Dimension Software and Boole & Babbage, both acquired by BMC Software, Houston, can breathe easy, claims Arnold Farber, president, Farber LaChance Inc., Richmond, Va. New Dimension, Boole, and BMC users are slated to benefit from more tightly integrated process automation products under the newly combined companies, while retaining the benefits of their best of breed products. Says Farber, "BMC is keeping the same product focus for the New Dimension and Boole products so that customers feel comfortable."

Moreover, BMC says it intends to keep the workforce of the acquired companies.

BMC's Gary Leibowitz, director of field marketing, IT Process Automation, says future growth for BMC will come from product integration. "We are strengthening integration with what was Boole and New Dimension so that we can leverage the solutions we have. We're also doing joint integration work with SAP on the R/3 environment to provide customers with a united systems management solution.

The Control-M Smart plug-in facilitates integration between Control-M, HP OpenView, and the enterprise production environment. Additionally, BMC is using the Control-M Knowledge Module for Patrol to bring management-by-exception and alerting mechanisms into the Patrol Console. Developed by New Dimension, Control-M manages and automates set-up, scheduling, and execution of business applications and legacy systems across multiple platforms.

Using Control-M and the BMC Enterprise Controlstation console gets a consolidated enterprise view of components, eliminating multiple interfaces for administration and management.

Supporting applications running on multiple platforms in a unified way is important. Says Farber, "BMC has an integrated approach that is effective. It's advantageous their tools have the same look and feel."