Category Archives: Technology Trends

The Art of Business Value

By Dick Stark Mark Schwartz, CIO at US Citizen and Immigration services (USCIS), is one of the leaders in the government’s move towards agile. Specifically, Mark is a proponent of continuous delivery as a way to shorten the software development … Continue reading

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BMC Discovery 11 and the New Federal DCOI

By Dick Stark On Wednesday, RightStar presented a live webcast, “BMC Discovery 11 and the New Federal DCOI.” BMC, discussed some of the new features in Discovery 11 (formerly ADDM), and how to use Discovery to comply with the new … Continue reading

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Remedyforce Summer 16 Update

By Dick Stark Last Tuesday, RightStar hosted a Webinar, “What’s New in BMC Remedyforce Summer 16.” Remedyforce just keeps providing more value. One perfect example is that agentless discovery is now part of Remedyforce The new release of Remedyforce allows … Continue reading

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Double Whammy: BMC HR Case Management and MyIT Service Broker

By Dick Stark The RightStar marketing team has been busy. Last Friday we hosted a RightStar Lunch and Learn on Remedy HR Case Management and the previous Wednesday presented MyIT Service Broker to an audience of Webinar attendees. BMC has … Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Service Catalogs

By Dick Stark Last week RightStar presented a webinar, “How to Create a Service Catalog using Best Practices.” At the beginning of the webinar I briefly described two recent customer service catalog go lives. Both were highly successful and deserve … Continue reading

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RightStar’s Atlassian Advisory Services

By Dick Stark What do most new Atlassian RightStar customers have in common? Answer: Atlassian Advisory Services. Anyone on RightStar Atlassian team can perform this assessment. Here’s what they do. RightStar offers DevOps solutions to assist companies to drive down … Continue reading

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Report from the Atlassian Federal Symposium

By Dick Stark On Tuesday, May 10, RightStar exhibited at the Atlassian Federal Symposium, “Delivering Innovation in the Federal Government.” I also sat on a panel that addressed DevOps and Agile Government. Atlassian had a good turnout with more than … Continue reading

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Report from BMC’s Sales Kick-Off Meeting

  By Dick Stark BMC began its FY17 on April 1 and held its annual sales kick-off meeting last week in Las Vegas. It was a great start to BMC’s new fiscal year. CEO Bob Beauchamp opened with a “state … Continue reading

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Remedy 9 Success Stories

By Dick Stark Remedy 9 is helping BMC win against ServiceNow based in part on its innovative MyIT, Smart IT and Smart Reporting components: Smart IT replaces the current user interface with one that is more like Facebook–more collaborative, designed … Continue reading

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Is Agile Government an Oxymoron?

By Dick Stark The needle has hardly moved since the COBOL days. Projects are taking longer, have less success, over-run to a greater extent. Meanwhile citizens are ill served. What is needed is not making things more agile, but simplifying … Continue reading

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