Tag Archives: RightStar

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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RightStar is the Value

By Dick Stark “The value used to be in the products and services. With products and services commoditized, the seller becomes the value.  This is a massive shift.” —Mike Schultz and John Doerr, Insight Selling How does RightStar show value?  … Continue reading

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Remedyforce: Driving Greater Cost Efficiency

By Dick Stark I’ve been in the ITSM business since co-founding Evergreen Systems in 1997.  Back then, Evergreen sold and supported a mid-market toolset, DP Umbrella, which eventually begat McAfee Help Desk which begat Magic, which finally became BMC Service … Continue reading

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Why FootPrints v12 Will be a Real Hit

By Dick Stark Last Thursday RightStar hosted a BMC Foot-Prints/Service Core v12 Webinar for a large group of SDE, Remedy, FootPrints, and Track-It customers and prospects.  One of the participants emailed, “I’m loving the Footprints 12 demo.   Thoroughly impressed!  You … Continue reading

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Making Masterful Presentations

By Dick Stark Excellent presentation skills are essential for almost all of us. Whether you are in Sales or Operations, a single presentation may determine whether or not your organization wins a new job, or whether you kick off a … Continue reading

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New Optimism for the ITSM Space

“A rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both parties…” —-John F. Kennedy By Dick Stark I have three good reasons why I’m more optimistic about the ITSM space than ever before.:  (1) BMC is … Continue reading

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The Great Debate: SaaS vs. On-Premise

By Dick Stark RightStar’s eighth annual customer appreciation cruise, held Thursday on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., drew a large crowd. Stewart Ainsworth, CTO of BMC Federal moderated a panel discussion on SaaS vs. On-Premise, BMC’s  Carrie Anne Mosley, … Continue reading

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Character + Competence = Trust

By Dick Stark I just read an incredible story in Sports Illustrated by Chris Ballard, about a high school basketball team in San Jose, California.  In the fall of 2011 and fed up with his team’s poor attitude, Coach Mike … Continue reading

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The Martian

By Dick Stark When I kicked off our Apollo 13 simulation session last Friday, I mentioned that I was just finishing a new book by Andy Weir, The Martian, in which an Astronaut is accidently left behind on Mars to … Continue reading

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ScanStar Breaks New Ground

By Brett Winston Q. What new barcode solution offers an innovative and cost effective way for FootPrints and Remedyforce users to receive, inventory, and reconcile discoverable and non-discoverable configuration items? A. ScanStar, RightStar’s second-generation barcode product for the BMC SMB … Continue reading

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