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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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Report from Remedy 9 User Group Meeting

By Dick Stark Last Thursday, RightStar held its fourth annual Remedy User Group Meeting. Held at the GSA Regional Office Building in DC, bmc discussed new Remedy features like Smart IT as well as the Remedy Roadmap. It was a … 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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Remedyforce Spring 15 Update

By Dick Stark On Thursday, RightStar hosted a RightStar webinar, “See What’s New in BMC Remedyforce Spring 15.” Remedyforce continues to improve and BMC is making it much easier and quicker for its customers to upgrade.  Because of competition Remedyforce … 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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Remedy Version 9: The Most Innovative ITSM Solution Available

By Dick Stark On April 29, BMC held a Remedy Version 9 webinar for its customers, quickly maxing out the 500 WebEx attendee limit, forcing those (like me) not able to login to settle for the pre-recorded version.  On April … Continue reading

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Baking SAM into Your ITSM Strategy

By Dick Stark Last Wednesday, I hosted an Aspera webinar, “Baking SAM into Your ITSM Strategy.” Software License Management is a hot topic and Aspera offers purpose-built, advanced license optimization tools that go beyond traditional asset management functions.  Can you … Continue reading

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ServiceNow’s Knowledge 15 Event

By Dick Stark This past week, ServiceNow held its annual Knowledge event, attracting more than 9000 attendees.  I tuned in to the live webcast, which was keynoted by ServiceNow CEO and President, Frank Slootman. What’s the next big thing?  The … Continue reading

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Report from BMC’s Exchange 15

By Dick Stark BMC’s Exchange 15 held March 19, 2015 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. The event was well attended by more than 350 customers, prospects, and partners. Sessions throughout the day covered topics such as Cloud, ITSM, … Continue reading

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LInking ITSM to Business Value and Maturity

By Dick Stark RightStar just finished an internal project aimed at determining customer value—what processes have been enabled or improved using ITSM tools and is that improvement measurable in terms of improved efficiencies or reduction in the overall cost of … Continue reading

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