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> On Oct 14, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Doug Blair <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Oct 14, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Scott Philben <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> If you have s session in Southern Hemisphere III, bring a sweater. It's 
>> freezing in here. 
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>>> On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:34, Blairing <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> From the opening Keynote. Just my notes, no editing allowed! From the 
>>> Keynote opening BMC Engage 2014
>>> 
>>> Introduction film by Steven Hawking,
>>> 
>>> Opening remarks by Paul Appleby, BMC exec VP Worldwide sales and marketing, 
>>> referencing Hawking and Steve Jobs, and introducing "a whole new BMC."
>>> 
>>> Bob Beauchamp, BMC CEO and chairman, welcoming customers, employees, press. 
>>> His Topics to be: Wild and crazy stuff happening in the IT support 
>>> industry: digitalization era.  And what BNC has been doing to address 
>>> digitalization behind the scenes.  
>>> 
>>> Next Year's Engage will be at the Aria in Las Vegas
>>> New BMC logo - "double helix" connotes digital DNA
>>> New BMC, private ownership, increased funding, new internal organization, 
>>> new customer facing innovations, increased R&D and marketing vs plans in 
>>> public company era
>>> 3rd era... It craftsmanship, 2nd IT industrialization, 3rd IT 
>>> digitalization. A disruptive era encompassing social, mobile, big data, 
>>> cloud.
>>> Era of digitalization will transform nay industries beyond IT, much as 
>>> downloads and itunes disrupted media and entertainment
>>> List of disruptive technologies.... Mobile internet, robotics, 3d painting, 
>>> Internet if things, energy storage, renewable energy etc. some commentary 
>>> on Disney fast-pass and technology used to enhance the guest experience in 
>>> the parks. 3d printers in space can manufacture things in space (at 
>>> international space station now)
>>>  Autonomous vehicles. Insurance acne premiums down 90% ? Impact of 
>>> autonomous vehicles leads to using transportations as a service rather than 
>>> owning a personal car. Amazon, Google, may automotive companies working on 
>>> this technology.
>>>  Internet of things - 7.3 billion SIM cards, 7.2 billion humans. 50 billion 
>>> devices on Internet by 2020. All generating enormous amounts of data. Only 
>>> 1 percent of this is being analyzed. The old ways of managing this many 
>>> devices will NOT scale to this number of Devices. Trouble tickets won't do 
>>> it.
>>>  Two speeds of IT: Big machines with centralized processing will be 
>>> enormous. Cost of compute reduces by 33%/year, network speed down 28/year. 
>>> IT operations cost, however, not declining. Second speed is IT operations 
>>> speed. Intertia of the organization itself limits the speed at which new 
>>> concepts can be explored and deployed. IT may be overwhelmed by volume of 
>>> data and processing which is necessitated by Internet of things. IT 
>>> management of processes must happen and cannot be accomplished by 
>>> traditional organizational structures. Must have an integrated strategy to 
>>> adjust for both volume of data/processing strength and organization of 
>>> processes and procedures to handle the evolution.
>>>  Industrial IT and Innovation IT
>>>  Bring IT to Life
>>>     Intuitive solutions
>>>     High speed innovation
>>>     Industrialized solutions
>>> 
>>> MyIT now has > 1 million users....
>>> SmartIT - new interface for IT staff service management users
>>> TrueSight - new methods of analysis for performance and availability issues
>>> SmartFlows - process management for service restoration including self 
>>> service and knowledge management
>>> 
>>> Welcome to a New era in IT, to a new BMC, and to Engage
>>> 
>>> More to come.... Next:
>>> 
>>> Paul Appleby talk about Transforming The Digital Enterprise
>>> 
>>> Our lives are changing, Paul travels a lot, subscribes to technologies like 
>>> Skype which allow him to leverage available services to help him live the 
>>> life he wishes. Challenge with this how are these compelling and 
>>> transformational services delivered?
>>> 
>>> Most companies are living in the eras of data processing, process 
>>> automation and the cloud/Social/'Mobile/Connected world, all at the same 
>>> time. Example in a telecommunications provided: Customer billing data is on 
>>> mainframes at at data center, but end user provisioning is cloud and 
>>> scattered and somewhat chaotic.b
>>> 
>>> Video demonstrates share, touch, work and discover.  Introducing "Living IT 
>>> from BMC," I assume this is a commercial. 
>>> 
>>> 6 transformational imperatives for embracing IT as the enterprise, 
>>> digitalization
>>> 
>>> Intuitive experience
>>>    Example most ohone apps, no instructions needed
>>> Actionable intelligence
>>>     Apps deliver useful stats
>>> Agile  applications
>>>     Delivery of innovation applications must be designed into the 
>>> platforms, allowing business agility
>>>  Adaptive automation
>>>      Not only from infrastructure perspective but also process evolution
>>>   Optimized infrastructure
>>>   Compliance and risk mitigation
>>>       Trust must be built in
>>> 
>>> As BMC brings IT to live, BMC will be working with customers to understand 
>>> the relationships between a business and their clients/customers, and to 
>>> optimize the way new services and useful apps are delivered.
>>> 
>>> Case studies for Swedish coast guard and vodaphone
>>> 
>>> Next up.... Demos!
>>> 
>>> Robin Purohit, president of service support, and Bill Beritti president 
>>> performance and availability.
>>> 
>>> We're seeing the story of a business suddenly overwhelmed by customer 
>>> demand r a new product, and how this is reported, measured and addressed. I 
>>> won't try to transcribe the videos here, but something tells me your BMC 
>>> rep has a copy.  Website too, I assume. One of them focuses on the BMC 
>>> Engage teddy bear we found on our seats!  The video story introduces new 
>>> features and products found in APM, MyIT, SmartIT, TrueSight for It data 
>>> analytics, cloud lifecycle management and how they all work together.
>>> 
>>> SmartIT is FREE to all of the Remedy installed base (requires 7.6.4 or 
>>> higher)
>>> 
>>> Paul Appleby returns to stage...., introduces Pail Avenant, BMC Chief 
>>> Customer Officer
>>> 
>>> May you live in interesting times....
>>> 
>>> Customer success depends on cohesive integration between technology and 
>>> innovation, delivering the value customer envisions. BMC is further 
>>> committed to being involved with customers enterprise rather than just 
>>> selling a box of parts.  
>>> Paul cites analysis of IT projects consistently about 30% behind schedule, 
>>> 60+% over budget, and delivering less than expected results. What you (us, 
>>> as BMC customers) want is a partnership with a company focused in 
>>> delivering a successful integrated project rather than just installed a 
>>> single portion of a solution. Whole picture needs to be supported and 
>>> understood. Every part of BMC organization has been challenged to step up 
>>> and address the end to end experience of the customers clients.
>>> 
>>> If you're standing still, you're falling behind
>>> 
>>> Product side - new products myIT, SmartIT.  Improvements to the product 
>>> development process
>>> Sales side - sales force trained to do value based selling, understanding 
>>> your business objectives and then proposing solutions that address whole 
>>> process
>>> Post sales - 
>>> Support side. - focused on responding faster and more complete
>>> 
>>> Customer focus, (Paul's area of expertise) look at the end to end 
>>> experience of the customer
>>> Creation of new organization, customer success organization, reporting 
>>> directly to CEO, including BNC professional services, customer support and 
>>> customer success management. BNC affirms their success is iced to 
>>> customer's success.
>>> 
>>> New org is committed to making sure that you actually get the value and the 
>>> maximum value from the processes that you select to accomplish your goals. 
>>> 
>>> [email protected] is Paul's address! Who you gonna call? He's at +1 
>>> 713-918-1650...
>>> 
>>> BMC Innovation awards:
>>> 
>>> BMC received so many nominations that they could not award just one. 
>>> 
>>> compass, Sarnoff (siri, that's wrong), SAP, BNY Mellon, Morningstar, Net 
>>> (sorry, missed that one) . Formal awards on Wednesday afternoon....
>>> Finalists: BNY Mellon, Orange, VodaPhone, Seu Mundo NexTel.  These folks 
>>> are sitting right in front of us.....
>>> Innovation award goes to....VODAPHONE....
>>> 
>>> Paul Appleby thanks us for coming, welcomes larger sponsors:
>>> 
>>> Unisys, Ed Vaccaro speaks.
>>> 
>>> Digital economy has been the biggest transformation ever seen. UNISYS focus 
>>> on mission critical systems, end users are shaping consumption of 
>>> technology. End user is the innovator, IT must adapt to the ways end users 
>>> want to use IT services.
>>> 
>>> Think about business model, not tech model
>>> Design for people
>>> Think differently about security
>>> Use what is actionable to tame big data
>>> Recognize that technology is more complex and more critical than ever
>>> 
>>> Example of data services provided to a global scale volunteer health care 
>>> organization
>>> Example of Pennsylvania outsourcing to UNISYS provided cloud model, largest 
>>> private secure cloud in state government, CLM model for self service 
>>> provisioning of cloud resources
>>> Example of FIFA World Cup in Brazil. UNISYS part of IT consortium at World 
>>> Cup. New mobility infrastructure integrated public safety agencies
>>> 
>>> UNISYS thanks BMC for ongoing relationship.
>>> 
>>> Paul Appleby back on stage....wrap up....
>>> 
>>> More later!
>>> 
>>> Doug
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>>> --
>>> Doug Blair
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>>> Auto-corrected typos, misspellings and non-sequiturs are gratefully 
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