Tag Archives: Remedy

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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