Category Archives: Technology Trends

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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Report from Engage 2015

By Dick Stark BMC’s annual user group conference, Engage, wound down last Friday in Las Vegas. Attendance was up this year by 15% with more than 2000 customers, partners, and BMC employees in attendance. Nancy Donnelly and I presented: Remedyforce, … 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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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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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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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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