You could argue that part of your "competive advantage" over your competition are your internal processes and tools. If you are using the same processes and tools as others, how can you differentiate yourself from a competitive standpoint ? (I'm not sure what your business does or what services you provide, but this may or may not be applicable).
Some very applicable "customizations" (implemented as overlays) could give your company and staff a competitive advantage over other companies, either through service offerings or through internal cost savings. You might want to try this approach to validate customizing the tool, when appropriate.
Terry
on Oct 18, 2013, Tauf Chowdhury <taufc...@gmail.com> wrote:
**What version are you on? In the newer versions, BMC has made it "easier" to customize the system and every version, they try to take more and more customer "customizations" and make them something you can configure within the tool. So I guess the first question is if you are on a version that supports overlays (7.6.04 +).It may then be a good idea to get in touch with your company's sales guy and explain to him the negative opinion everyone has about the product and said comments about the "no customization" rule. I'm sure the sales person will be interested in smoothing things over if he cares about doing more business. Ask him/her to set up a meeting with product management and have a real, in person, discussion with them about the direction of the product and what you should/shouldn't do.Worst case scenario, hit the job market. Sounds like a crappy environment to work in. There are plenty of great opportunities out there. I believe Unisys is hiring.Hope this helps._ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Koyb P. Liabt <tekkyto...@aol.com> wrote:
**_ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_Hi,We have a serious issue. Our company has strictly mandated that no customizations be made to our ITSM system - unless BMC does it via a "Hotfix." Management states that BMC informed them "not to customize." (I believe it's more than an issue related to upgrades - not sure what all was communiccated). As result, whenever there is a change that needs to be made - their position is.." it's BMC's responsibility to fix their application." For example, if there are OOB fields marked as 'optional" and our company wants the fields to be "required" - then the oweness is on BMC to fix it. This is what our company calls "a broken piece of code that needs a hotfix." (how absurd). Internal developers are to administer the data and are not able to create a form, add a field, create an active link, filter etc - it might "break Remedy more." Only four filters were created over the two years from our team. To make a code change, it requires several pages of an essay detailing why we need this new code, weeks of meetings to discuss the filter, Sr. Management must be notified, then go through the CAB review board, etc....Unfortunately, because of this "no customize" delusion, our company views the ITSM OOB applications as "junk" because it does not meet requirements that continually change as we mature as a company. Harsh statements are daily communicated throughout our company over these issues. Whenever a field and/or workflow does not match their "wish list" - almost every meeting, people are walking around complaining that the "tool just does not work." This is so far from the truth! I have explained many times the concept of "software development application" and "developer." BMC packaged ITSM based on industry standard (and other factors) that contains software development applications that supports IT Service Management. BMC cannot predict which fields you want to be required in every single case. Each company is different. Yes, standardize as much as possible, however if you need to modify the code to fit your business requirement - then do so.I spoke with BMC technical support and asked the technician what is BMC communicating regarding customizations - because our Sr. Management is stating BMC warned them not to customize. The BMC tech informed me that we should not customize ITSM. ?? Where on earth is this coming from?If I needed to change the field from a numerical "9" to the word "nine" on a form - the decision makers on our team would flip out. The reality is, we have a great need to create tables to manage data and for integrations - however we cannot :(
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