Category Archives: Business Management

Report form BMC’s Exchange Federal

BMC’s annual Federal user group conference, Exchange, was held last Tuesday at the Ronald Regan Building in Washington, DC. Attendance was up this year with approximately 400 customers, partners, and BMC employees in attendance. In the afternoon we presented, The … Continue reading

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The Phoenix Project, Part 1

By Dick Stark I recently finished The Phoenix Project, and made this required reading for our entire company. It is a story about “IT, DevOps, and helping your business win.”  Who ever thought a book about IT would be a … Continue reading

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The “L” Word

By Dick Stark Every chance it gets, ServiceNow (SNOW) reminds BMC, HP, and CA customers, that they have legacy products from legacy IT firms, and that soon Remedy, or fill in the blank, will die an ugly death just like … Continue reading

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The ITSSM Gartner Magic Quadrant 2015 Edition

By Dick Stark Many of you have already seen the August 26, 2015, Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Support Management Tools. In this report, Remedy continues in IT’s holiest of holy places, the upper right corner. Last year’s report … Continue reading

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Overcome ITSM Adoption Challenges

By Dick Stark We are currently working with a RightStar customer to help re-engineer their FootPrints system to make it better. And last Wednesday, I interviewed a Remedy consultant working at a government account.. When I asked about their ITSM … Continue reading

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BMC Innovation Day

By Dick Stark Last week, I attended BMC’s Innovation Half-Day at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. This event provided insight and updates across BMC’s five pillars: ITSM, Workload Automation (Control-M), Datacenter Automation (BBSA), Cloud, and Service Assurance (TrueSight). … Continue reading

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RightStar Engage Presentation: Moving from Survivors to Thrivers

By Dick Stark Nancy Donnelly and I will be joint speakers for a session at BMC Engage, BMC’s annual user conference to be held this year in Las Vegas, September 7-11. Our topic: Remedyforce, FootPrints and Remedy: Moving from Survivors … Continue reading

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Rogue ITSM?

By Dick Stark For the past twelve years, RightStar has sold ITSM solutions primarily into centralized IT Departments. These organizations have come to rely on ITSM toolsets such as Remedy, Remdyforce, or FootPrints to deliver technology services in a centralized … Continue reading

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What is the Future of ITSM?

By Dick Stark In April, EMA, an IT consulting firm, released a study, “What Is the Future of IT Service Management? Since the answer to this question is important to RightStar, I downloaded a copy. EMA surveyed 270 organizations with … Continue reading

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What in the World is Control-M?

By Dick Stark On Wednesday, BMC held a Control-M training session for the RightStar Federal team. The objective was to educate us about Workload Automation (WLA) and BMC’s Control-M, and to demonstrate the value that WLA offers customers.  Although RightStar … Continue reading

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