BMC Exceeds Estimates...Again

Yes, BMC impressed the street again. For 11 straight quarters, BMC Software has met or exceeded its guidance on revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share. It's little wonder with success stories like Tata Motors, the Indian automaker (and producer of the Nano), which dropped its IT staffing by 20%, and the number of calls placed to its help desk fell by 80% from 2,500 a month after implementing the BSM platform.

Yes, it's a good time to be in business service management, with its methodologies firmly entrenched in ITIL v3 best practices. But, beyond BSM, I'd like to prove the power of the conversation by giving you a little snippet to think about.

For 11 consecutive quarters, BMC has met or exceeded estimates. That also happens to be the exact amount of time since BMC Software launched a little social media program called TalkBMC.