BMC

BMC Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: BMC) is a multinational corporation specializing in Business Service Management (BSM) software, with record annual revenue in fiscal 2009 of $1.87 billion. BMC is one of the largest software companies in the world and has grown total revenue each fiscal year since 2002.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, BMC develops, markets and sells software used for multiple functions, including IT service management, data center automation, performance management, virtualization lifecycle management and cloud computing management. The name "BMC" is taken from the surname of its three founders—Scott Boulette, John Moores, and Dan Cloer.

BMC Software began as a mainframe software vendor, but since the middle 1990s has been developing software to monitor, manage and automate distributed and mainframe systems. BMC is divided into two main business units: A Mainframe Management segment focusing on reliability of "business critical data" and includes the BSM subgroup, “Service Optimization.”

An Enterprise Service Management segment which focuses on servers and networks, and includes the BSM subgroups, "Service Support," "Service Automation," and "Service Resource Planning.”

In August 2009, BMC had over 450 software applications to primarily manage mainframes and distributed systems, as well as virtual and cloud computing IT environments. Generally, the software is used to help information technology managers, typically in large enterprises or agencies, manage operations, make IT more efficient, remediate issues, increase compliance and lower IT costs.