Category Archives: ITSM

Remedyforce Winter 15 Update

By Dick Stark On Thursday February 12, RightStar hosted a Webinar, “See What’s New in BMC Remedyforce Winter 15.” Remedyforce continues to improve and BMC is making it much easier and quicker for its customers to upgrade.  Because of competition … Continue reading

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Increasing Customer Value with ADDM v10.1

By Dick Stark On Wednesday, RightStar and BMC presented an excellent webinar, “ADDM: What’s New v 10.1, How to Tame Your Discovery Data and Increase Your Value to the Business.”  ADDM v10.1 was released late last year with several significant … Continue reading

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Predictions for 2015: ITSM Disruptors

By Dick Stark BMC’s Anthony Orr, and Pink Elephant’s George Spalding, presented a webinar last week, Predictions for 2015: ITSM Disruptors.  Their presentation although interesting, was somewhat disjointed with most of the time spent on stories about new technologies such as … Continue reading

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BMC, Still the Market Leader

By Dick Stark In case you haven’t seen the August 25, 2014, Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Support Management Tools, report, Remedy has remained in IT’s holiest of holy places, the upper right corner.  However, the top spot now … Continue reading

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Don’t Install ITIL

By Dick Stark RightStar held its third annual BMC Remedy User Group Meeting in Washington DC on Friday. It was a well-attended event, with most there to learn more about Smart IT and the new BMC.  My job was to … Continue reading

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Dial 3-1-1

By Dick Stark Several weeks ago I attended a Technology Day seminar that RightStar co-sponsored with BMC, focused on BMC FootPrints Service Core, Asset Core, and ADDM. Hosted by the Orlando Utilities Commission, it attracted more than 30 FootPrints customers … Continue reading

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Critical Capabilities for the CMDB

By Dick Stark On June 16, Gartner released a report, “Critical Capabilities for the Configuration Management Database,” evaluating ten ITSM CMDB products. BMC’s Atrium CMDB, along with FootPrints and Remedyforce were included as well as products from HP, CA, ServiceNow, … Continue reading

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Knowledge Centered Support

By Dick Stark On Wednesday, RightStar and RightAnswers hosted a webinar, How Knowledge-Centered Support (KCS) Methodology Can Empower Your Service Organization. This “mini-class” described the methodology behind KCS and the value that good knowledge management (KM) provides. Most eye-opening was … Continue reading

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How to Decide Between BMC and ServiceNow

By Dick Stark On July 7, Gartner released a report entitled, “How to Decide Between BMC and ServiceNow for ITSM and Beyond.” The report reviewed current offerings from both as they apply to IT Service Support Management (ITSSM) and IT … Continue reading

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ServiceNow’s Entry into the ITOM Space

By Dick Stark ServiceNow (SNOW) was in the news again last week for its proposed acquisition of IT Service Dependency Mapping vendor Neebula Systems for $100 million cash. Neebula gives SNOW an ADDM like product offering with its Service Dependency … Continue reading

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