New ITIL Game and "BLOG"

Back again! Last week I was in Paris presenting on ITIL v3 again, and as you will have already seen we’re about to acquire Bladelogic, so life has been a little hectic.

However never short of good innovative ideas, we’ve just launched an ITIL v3 game. Yes, an online game to test your ITIL and BSM knowledge. If any of you have ever taken the BMC Airport simulation training day, you’ll recognise the concept. So check it out here. This was the invention of my colleague, Linda Donovan who after attending the Airport Simulation thought it would be a great way to spread the word, both within organisational departments and at conferences. So a few months of planning have now paid off, I hope you enjoy this bit of educational fun.

Now back to the acquisition of Bladelogic. The area we will see most attention and growth is around Release Management across the datacenter. BladeLogic enables the following components of a release management process as defined under ITIL best practice:
• Design, Build, and Package a Release—they provide the ability to document and package configurations, installation routines, and deployment instructions for software releases across various environments. It also provides the ability to document the policies that need to be complied with for any given software release across various environments.
• Deploy & Install—BladeLogic automates the promotion and distribution of software across platforms and environments while ensuring compliance against the release policies. It does this by taking into consideration the configuration changes from the build environment to test and production environments and the impact of that on application configuration integrity.
This will be an integrated enhancement to our earlier Marimba acquisition ensuring we more tightly comply with ITIL v3 for software, applications and OS releases, utilising the power of knowledge within the Atrium CMDB. This is a very exciting time for BMC as we deliver more capabilities within BSM whilst embracing ITIL v3. Check out the recent Webinar with my good friend Kurt Milne, Managing Director at the ITPI and Bladelogic on the “Top 10 Management Principles that Lead to IT Operational Excellence”

One final thing -  I love BladeLogic’s Symbol for share trading – BLOG!

Off to Houston, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma next week.