BMC Software

American enterprise software company

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BMC Software, Inc.

Type| Private
Industry| Information technology
Consulting
Enterprise Software
Founded| September 1980; 43 years ago (1980-09)
Founder| John Moores[1]
Dan Cloer[2]
Scott Boulette[2]
Headquarters| Houston, Texas, United States[3]

Key people

| Ayman Sayed (CEO)[3]
Products| Software
IT service management
Revenue| $2.1 billion (2021)[3]
Owner| KKR

Number of employees

| 6,000 (2020)[3]
Website| www.bmc.com

BMC Software, Inc. is an American multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting, and Enterprise Software company based in Houston, Texas.[4]

Gartner has positioned BMC as a Leader for the eighth consecutive year in Gartner's 2021 Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools for its BMC Helix ITSM solution.[5]

## History[edit]

The company was founded in Houston, Texas, by former Shell employees Scott Boulette, John Moores, and Dan Cloer, whose surname initials were adopted as the company name BMC Software.[6][7] Moores served as the company's first CEO.[8] The firm primarily wrote software for IBM mainframe computers, the industry standard at the time,[9] but since the mid-1990s has been developing software to monitor, manage and automate both distributed and mainframe systems.

In 1987, Moores was succeeded by Richard A. Hosley II as CEO and President. In July 1988, BMC was re-incorporated in Delaware and went public with an initial public offering for BMC stock.[10][11] The first day of trading was August 12, 1988.[12][13] BMC stock was originally traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol BMCS and on the New York Stock Exchange with symbol BMC.

### Acquisition and privatization by private equity firms[edit]

In May 2013, BMC announced that it was being acquired by a group of major private equity investment groups for $6.9 billion.[14] The process was completed in September 2013 and the company is no longer publicly traded.[15]

It was announced on October 2, 2018 that BMC was acquired by KKR, a leading global investment firm. The company was acquired from a private investor group led by Bain Capital Private Equity and Golden Gate Capital together with GIC, Insight Venture Partners, and Elliott Management.[16]

## Products and services[edit]

BMC Software specializes in software designed to enable an autonomous digital enterprise,[17][18] developing products used for multiple functions including automation, service management, DevOps, workflow orchestration, AIOps, and security.

The company supports enterprises using mainframes with its Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) product line, which enables self-managing mainframe systems.[19] Self-managing mainframes use machine learning to improve efficiency by anticipating needs, sending alarms, and taking actions without the need for manual actions.[20]

BMC's Control-M software is an application workflow orchestration platform that allows businesses to run hundreds of thousands of batch jobs daily and use the data to optimize complex business operations, such as supply chain management.[21] Users can access all enterprise batch jobs through a single graphical interface.[22] Control-M integrates with distributed storage systems such as HDFS, YARN, MapReduce and Apache Spark.[21] In 2019, the firm made the program available in a Docker container, allowing easy deployment to the public cloud or on-premises.[23] The software has been named the overall leader in workload automation by Enterprise Management Associates in each report since 2010.[21] In 2020, the firm announced the launch of SaaS-based BMC Helix Control-M application workflow orchestration.[24]

The TrueSight suite utilizes AI and machine learning to provide insights and network automation capabilities,[25] and includes TrueSight Operations Management, TrueSight Automation for Networks, TrueSight Automation for Servers, and TrueSight Orchestration.

## Directors and staff[edit]

The company was founded by John J. Moores in 1980; Moores was a "former Shell Oil computer specialist ... whose software made Shell's computers more efficient."[26] Richard A. Hosley II was president and chief executive officer of BMC Software, Inc. from October 1987 until April 1990. Shortly after becoming president, Hosley took the company public in 1988. Hosley was succeeded by Max Watson Jr. in April 1990.[27] Max Watson Jr. was chairman and chief executive officer of BMC Software from April 1990 to January 2001.[28]

In 2001, BMC appointed the company director, Garland Cupp, as chairman, succeeding Max Watson, who quit the post in January 2001.[29] Watson was succeeded as chairman and CEO by BMC's former senior vice president of product management and development, Robert Beauchamp.[12]

In December 2016, Peter Leav succeeded Bob Beauchamp as president and chief executive officer.[30][31] In October 2019, Ayman Sayed was named as President and CEO of BMC Software.[32]

## Notable acquisitions[edit]

Company  | Year  | Price

|
|

Patrol Software  | 1994  | $36 million
HawkNet [33] | 1996  | Undisclosed
PEER Networks [33] | 1996  | Undisclosed
Datatools  | 1997  | $60 million
Boole & Babbage[34] | 1998  | $877m - $1 billion
BGS Systems[35] | 1998  | $285 million
New Dimension Software[36] | 1999  | $673 million
Optisystems[37] | 2000  | $70 million
Evity Inc.[38] | 2000  | $100 million
Perform SA[39] | 2001  | $23 million
Remedy (product)[40] | 2002  | Undisclosed
IT Masters[41] | 2003  | $42 million
Magic Solutions[42] | 2003  | $47 million
Marimba[43] | 2004  | $187 million
Identify Software[44] | 2006  | $151 million
Service Management Partners  | 2007  | Unknown
ProactiveNet[45] | 2007  | Unknown
RealOps[46] | 2007  | Unknown
Emprisa Networks[47] | 2007  | $22 million
BladeLogic[48] | 2008  | $854 million
ITM Software[49] | 2008  | Undisclosed
MQSoftware[50] | 2009  | Undisclosed
Tideway Systems[51] | 2009  | Undisclosed
Phurnace Software[51] | 2010  | Undisclosed
Neptuny/Caplan [52] | 2010  | Undisclosed
GridApp Systems[53] | 2010  | Undisclosed
Coradiant[54] | 2011  | Undisclosed
Aeroprise [55] | 2011  | Undisclosed
StreamStep[56] | 2011  | Undisclosed
Numara Software[57] | 2012  | Undisclosed
CDB Software, inc. [58] | 2015  | Undisclosed
Correlog [59] | 2018  | Undisclosed
RSM Partners [60] | 2020  | Undisclosed
Compuware[61] | 2020  | Undisclosed
Alderstone[62] | 2020  | Undisclosed
ComAround[63] | 2020  | Undisclosed
StreamWeaver[64] | 2021  | Undisclosed

## See also[edit]

* Texas portal
* Companies portal

* List of companies in Houston
* Remedy Corp
* ServiceNow

## References[edit]

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63. ^ "BMC Acquires ComAround". October 14, 2020.
64. ^ Greig, Jonathan. "BMC acquires software company StreamWeaver". ZDNet. Retrieved January 31, 2022.

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