Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
From what I heard about some TSD (Tivoli Service Desk) consultants, it was 
(is) very hard to find people that know KML enough to customize the TSD suite 
in a reasonable amount of time. It's even much harder to get KML programmers 
than COBOL programmers! I guess you could find Modula programmers easier 
too

The reason why Peregrine bought TSD is to kill it and then entice (more like 
force) the 1500 customers at that time to switch to ServiceCenter. That was the 
reason why Peregrine did that. They killed TSD 3 months after acquiring it, and 
to add insult to injury, they outsourced all TSD support to a third party!

 



From: William Rentfrow
Sent: Wed 05/23/07 1:00 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
KML = Knowledge Management Language

Rumor has (had?) it the language was an early attempt at trying to create some 
type of artificial intelligence for making fuzzy logic decisions.  I don't know 
what the real method to their madness was - but there certainly was a madness 
to their method.

Still though it had some great features - like full control of transactional 
processing and all elements of what was going on in the system.  You could 
literally change anything you wanted to with it.  If, of course, you wanted to 
type it out character by character, line by line.  I think the biggest project 
we ever did added something like 100,000 lines of code to a base product of 
200,000 or so lines of code.

I can still code in it if I have to - but it's like trying to remember my high 
school French lessons at this point.

As for the reasons IBM/Tivoli dropped the EA/TSD Service Desk line of 
products was actually fairly simple - they quit selling it.  They just started 
bundling it with their standard Tivoli apps and didn't sell the implementation 
services.  Specifically they refused to compensate their sales people for the 
implementations for the product and they weren't charging for the product 
itself so there was no reason whatsoever for the sales people to do anything 
with it.  It quickly became shelfware and nothing more.

Why Peregrine paid more than $10 for it is a mystery to this day.  But then 
again Peregrine did seem to have some accounting issues :)




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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 8:24 PM
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Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
I think it's actual acronym stood for 'Krappy Monotonous to program in 
Language'I was forced to 'Learn' it to modify it for a company I previously 
worked for




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On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 7:08 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
Scott,

One of the reasons the Tivoli Service Desk was dropped by IBM is because the 
core programming language these applications were built in is an obscure 
language called KML. Just so you know, this KML language is an object oriented 
language, it is not the Keyhole Markup Language. I don't know what the acronym 
means though...

Guillaume





From: Scott Hammons
Sent: Wed 05/16/07 8:39 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
Emad,

Thank you for the clarification.  I was just passing on the information that I 
know at this time.  It appears that IBM will be putting quite a bit of its RD 
effort into improving the Maximo product.  IBM already has a change management 
utility incorporated with it's CCMDB product.  By the way some of the people 
that have told me the benefits of the IBM product line are ex-Remedy people 
that went to Maximo after being let go by BMC.  

Personally I always thought it was a big mistake for IBM to let go of their 
original service product.  I'm a big fan of the Remedy product line and it 
looks like IBM has made these moves to go head to head with Remedy.  I guess 
time will tell if it is a good move or not.  

Thanks,

Scott



From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Emad Zaky
Sent: Wed 5/16/2007 16:07
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
I am sorry Scott,
The Asset part in Maximo is good, since that's what Maximo was originally built 
for
The rest of Maximo's ITSM still needs to evolve in a lot of aspects to compete 
with Remedy as well as other well established  ITSM apps...

 
On 5/16/07, Scott Hammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
** 
Correction.  IBM purchased a company called Maximo that has a service desk and 
asset management component.  IBM also has CMDB called Change and Configuration 
Management Database (CCMDB).  I can get info on this products out to you if you 
contact me off list.  It appears to me that they are jumping back into the game 
through acquisition.  From what I've heard about the product and it appears to 
compete well with the Remedy product suite. 

Hope this helps,

Scott

Scott Hammons

Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-22 Thread William Rentfrow
KML = Knowledge Management Language
 
Rumor has (had?) it the language was an early attempt at trying to
create some type of artificial intelligence for making fuzzy logic
decisions.  I don't know what the real method to their madness was - but
there certainly was a madness to their method.
 
Still though it had some great features - like full control of
transactional processing and all elements of what was going on in the
system.  You could literally change anything you wanted to with it.  If,
of course, you wanted to type it out character by character, line by
line.  I think the biggest project we ever did added something like
100,000 lines of code to a base product of 200,000 or so lines of code.
 
I can still code in it if I have to - but it's like trying to remember
my high school French lessons at this point.
 
As for the reasons IBM/Tivoli dropped the EA/TSD Service Desk line of
products was actually fairly simple - they quit selling it.  They just
started bundling it with their standard Tivoli apps and didn't sell the
implementation services.  Specifically they refused to compensate their
sales people for the implementations for the product and they weren't
charging for the product itself so there was no reason whatsoever for
the sales people to do anything with it.  It quickly became shelfware
and nothing more.
 
Why Peregrine paid more than $10 for it is a mystery to this day.  But
then again Peregrine did seem to have some accounting issues :)



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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of L. J. Head
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 8:24 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
I think it's actual acronym stood for 'Krappy Monotonous to program in
Language'I was forced to 'Learn' it to modify it for a company I
previously worked for



From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 7:08 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
Scott,
 
One of the reasons the Tivoli Service Desk was dropped by IBM is
because the core programming language these applications were built in
is an obscure language called KML. Just so you know, this KML language
is an object oriented language, it is not the Keyhole Markup Language. I
don't know what the acronym means though...
 
Guillaume



From: Scott Hammons
Sent: Wed 05/16/07 8:39 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
Emad,
 
Thank you for the clarification.  I was just passing on the information
that I know at this time.  It appears that IBM will be putting quite a
bit of its RD effort into improving the Maximo product.  IBM already
has a change management utility incorporated with it's CCMDB product.
By the way some of the people that have told me the benefits of the IBM
product line are ex-Remedy people that went to Maximo after being let go
by BMC.  
 
Personally I always thought it was a big mistake for IBM to let go of
their original service product.  I'm a big fan of the Remedy product
line and it looks like IBM has made these moves to go head to head with
Remedy.  I guess time will tell if it is a good move or not.  
 
Thanks,
 
Scott



From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Emad
Zaky
Sent: Wed 5/16/2007 16:07
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
I am sorry Scott,
The Asset part in Maximo is good, since that's what Maximo was
originally built for
The rest of Maximo's ITSM still needs to evolve in a lot of aspects to
compete with Remedy as well as other well established  ITSM apps...

 
On 5/16/07, Scott Hammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 

** 
Correction.  IBM purchased a company called Maximo that has a
service desk and asset management component.  IBM also has CMDB called
Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB).  I can get info on
this products out to you if you contact me off list.  It appears to me
that they are jumping back into the game through acquisition.  From what
I've heard about the product and it appears to compete well with the
Remedy product suite. 
 
Hope this helps,
 
Scott
 
Scott Hammons
Principal Tivoli Security Consultant
Advanced Integrated Solutions, Inc.
http://www.aisconsulting.net/
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 



From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf
of William Rentfrow
Sent: Wed 5/16/2007 15:03
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

 

** 
Tivoli ITSM = IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
 
This is not a ITSM type product whatsoever

Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-21 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Scott,

One of the reasons the Tivoli Service Desk was dropped by IBM is because the 
core programming language these applications were built in is an obscure 
language called KML. Just so you know, this KML language is an object oriented 
language, it is not the Keyhole Markup Language. I don't know what the acronym 
means though...

Guillaume





From: Scott Hammons
Sent: Wed 05/16/07 8:39 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
Emad,

Thank you for the clarification.  I was just passing on the information that I 
know at this time.  It appears that IBM will be putting quite a bit of its RD 
effort into improving the Maximo product.  IBM already has a change management 
utility incorporated with it's CCMDB product.  By the way some of the people 
that have told me the benefits of the IBM product line are ex-Remedy people 
that went to Maximo after being let go by BMC.  

Personally I always thought it was a big mistake for IBM to let go of their 
original service product.  I'm a big fan of the Remedy product line and it 
looks like IBM has made these moves to go head to head with Remedy.  I guess 
time will tell if it is a good move or not.  

Thanks,

Scott



From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Emad Zaky
Sent: Wed 5/16/2007 16:07
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
I am sorry Scott,
The Asset part in Maximo is good, since that's what Maximo was originally built 
for
The rest of Maximo's ITSM still needs to evolve in a lot of aspects to compete 
with Remedy as well as other well established  ITSM apps...

 
On 5/16/07, Scott Hammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
** 
Correction.  IBM purchased a company called Maximo that has a service desk and 
asset management component.  IBM also has CMDB called Change and Configuration 
Management Database (CCMDB).  I can get info on this products out to you if you 
contact me off list.  It appears to me that they are jumping back into the game 
through acquisition.  From what I've heard about the product and it appears to 
compete well with the Remedy product suite. 

Hope this helps,

Scott

Scott Hammons
Principal Tivoli Security Consultant
Advanced Integrated Solutions, Inc.
http://www.aisconsulting.net/
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]





From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of William 
Rentfrow
Sent: Wed 5/16/2007 15:03
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

 
** 
Tivoli ITSM = IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

This is not a ITSM type product whatsoever.

Historically Tivoli used to own Tivoli Service Desk, which previous to IBM's 
acquisition was known as Software Artistry's product line Expert Advisor.  
The acquisition happened in 1997.  Tivoli rebranded everything in 1998 and spun 
half of the product line off into a company named Coreport - Corepoint lasted  
9 months.  The entire product line was sold and killed off right around January 
of 2000.  Anyone care to guess who bought it? (Rhymes with Beregrine) 

Tivoli does not have this type of product line any longer.  Strangely I know of 
at least company still running the EA product line. 

IBM does have some CRM products but nothing extremely similar to Remedy.




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PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:13 AM
To: mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

 
** 
Doug, have your people look at the Forrester Wave pdf (which you can get from 
BMC's web site) that compares Service Desk platforms.  The Tivoli suite isn't 
in there, but about a dozen other (including BMC) are. 

Rick 

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PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anderson, Douglas W.
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:01 AM
To: mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

 
** 

Hello ARSList Wizard-folk,

One of my co-workers has become enmeshed in a comparative analysis of BMC 
Remedy ITSM and IBM Tivoli ITSM. His group was all set to go with the 
ARS-version 7-based Incident, Problem, CMDB,  Knowledge canned applications 
when someone asked, What about Tivoli? I am glad I'm not in his shoes but 
would like to try to help. 

If you have compared the BMC and Tivoli solutions and have any tales to tell, 
documents to share (anonymous attribution or not), or Tivoli gotchas that ought 
to be examined carefully, please let me know (on- or off-list). 

Many thanks for any insights,
Doug Anderson

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Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-17 Thread Emad Zaky

Scott,

Yes you are right. A lot of the people involved with Maximo are
ex-Remedy(BMC) especially from sales and marketing.

IBM's product and service portfolio still represents a challenge though,
since they have a global alliance with BMC and historically they have been,
and still are (
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/gsdod/solutiondetails.do?solution=27542expand=truelc=en),
providing
Remedy products and services for such a long time that I think its taking
time for their sales and marketing to tune their message. It probably a
nightmare explaining why they sell both products and then try to leverage
Maximo over Remedy. And again, they've been doing Remedy for some time and
are comfortable with their knowledge of the product.

So until that's done Maximo has some time to develop into a strong
competitor

Regards,
Emad M. Zaky


On 5/16/07, Scott Hammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


**  Emad,

Thank you for the clarification.  I was just passing on the information
that I know at this time.  It appears that IBM will be putting quite a
bit of its RD effort into improving the Maximo product.  IBM already has a
change management utility incorporated with it's CCMDB product.  By the way
some of the people that have told me the benefits of the IBM product line
are ex-Remedy people that went to Maximo after being let go by BMC.

Personally I always thought it was a big mistake for IBM to let go of
their original service product.  I'm a big fan of the Remedy product line
and it looks like IBM has made these moves to go head to head with Remedy.
I guess time will tell if it is a good move or not.

Thanks,

Scott

--
*From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Emad
Zaky
*Sent:* Wed 5/16/2007 16:07
*To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
*Subject:* Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


 ** I am sorry Scott,
The Asset part in Maximo is good, since that's what Maximo was originally
built for
The rest of Maximo's ITSM still needs to evolve in a lot of aspects to
compete with Remedy as well as other well established  ITSM apps...


On 5/16/07, Scott Hammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 **  Correction.  IBM purchased a company called Maximo that has a
 service desk and asset management component.  IBM also has CMDB called
 Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB).  I can get info on
 this products out to you if you contact me off list.  It appears to me that
 they are jumping back into the game through acquisition.  From what I've
 heard about the product and it appears to compete well with the Remedy
 product suite.

 Hope this helps,

 Scott

 Scott Hammons
 Principal Tivoli Security Consultant
 Advanced Integrated Solutions, Inc.
 www.aisconsulting.net
 Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]



 --
 *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of
 William Rentfrow
 *Sent:* Wed 5/16/2007 15:03
 *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 *Subject:* Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


 ** Tivoli ITSM = IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

 This is not a ITSM type product whatsoever.

 Historically Tivoli used to own Tivoli Service Desk, which previous to
 IBM's acquisition was known as Software Artistry's product line Expert
 Advisor.  The acquisition happened in 1997.  Tivoli rebranded everything in
 1998 and spun half of the product line off into a company named Coreport
 - Corepoint lasted  9 months.  The entire product line was sold and killed
 off right around January of 2000.  Anyone care to guess who bought it?
 (Rhymes with Beregrine)

 Tivoli does not have this type of product line any longer.  Strangely I
 know of at least company still running the EA product line.

 IBM does have some CRM products but nothing extremely similar to Remedy.

  --
 *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 ] *On Behalf Of *Rick Cook
 *Sent:* Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:13 AM
 *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 *Subject:* Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


 ** Doug, have your people look at the Forrester Wave pdf (which you can
 get from BMC's web site) that compares Service Desk platforms.  The Tivoli
 suite isn't in there, but about a dozen other (including BMC) are.

 *Rick*
 --
 *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 ] *On Behalf Of *Anderson, Douglas W.
 *Sent:* Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:01 AM
 *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 *Subject:* BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


 **

 Hello ARSList Wizard-folk,

 One of my co-workers has become enmeshed in a comparative analysis of
 BMC Remedy ITSM and IBM Tivoli ITSM. His group was all set to go with the
 ARS-version 7-based Incident, Problem, CMDB,  Knowledge canned applications
 when someone asked, What about Tivoli? I am glad I'm not in his shoes but
 would like to try to help.

 If you have compared the BMC and Tivoli solutions and have any tales to
 tell, documents to share (anonymous attribution or not), or Tivoli gotchas

Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-16 Thread Scott Hammons
Emad,
 
Thank you for the clarification.  I was just passing on the information that I 
know at this time.  It appears that IBM will be putting quite a bit of its RD 
effort into improving the Maximo product.  IBM already has a change management 
utility incorporated with it's CCMDB product.  By the way some of the people 
that have told me the benefits of the IBM product line are ex-Remedy people 
that went to Maximo after being let go by BMC.  
 
Personally I always thought it was a big mistake for IBM to let go of their 
original service product.  I'm a big fan of the Remedy product line and it 
looks like IBM has made these moves to go head to head with Remedy.  I guess 
time will tell if it is a good move or not.  
 
Thanks,
 
Scott



From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Emad Zaky
Sent: Wed 5/16/2007 16:07
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
I am sorry Scott,
The Asset part in Maximo is good, since that's what Maximo was originally built 
for
The rest of Maximo's ITSM still needs to evolve in a lot of aspects to compete 
with Remedy as well as other well established  ITSM apps...

 
On 5/16/07, Scott Hammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 

** 
Correction.  IBM purchased a company called Maximo that has a service 
desk and asset management component.  IBM also has CMDB called Change and 
Configuration Management Database (CCMDB).  I can get info on this products out 
to you if you contact me off list.  It appears to me that they are jumping back 
into the game through acquisition.  From what I've heard about the product and 
it appears to compete well with the Remedy product suite. 
 
Hope this helps,
 
Scott
 
Scott Hammons
Principal Tivoli Security Consultant
Advanced Integrated Solutions, Inc.
www.aisconsulting.net http://www.aisconsulting.net/ 
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 



From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of 
William Rentfrow
Sent: Wed 5/16/2007 15:03
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

 

** 
Tivoli ITSM = IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
 
This is not a ITSM type product whatsoever.
 
Historically Tivoli used to own Tivoli Service Desk, which previous to 
IBM's acquisition was known as Software Artistry's product line Expert 
Advisor.  The acquisition happened in 1997.  Tivoli rebranded everything in 
1998 and spun half of the product line off into a company named Coreport - 
Corepoint lasted  9 months.  The entire product line was sold and killed off 
right around January of 2000.  Anyone care to guess who bought it? (Rhymes with 
Beregrine) 
 
Tivoli does not have this type of product line any longer.  Strangely I 
know of at least company still running the EA product line. 
 
IBM does have some CRM products but nothing extremely similar to Remedy.



From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Rick Cook
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:13 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

 
** 
Doug, have your people look at the Forrester Wave pdf (which you can 
get from BMC's web site) that compares Service Desk platforms.  The Tivoli 
suite isn't in there, but about a dozen other (including BMC) are. 
 
Rick 


From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Anderson, Douglas W.
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:01 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 
Subject: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

 
** 


Hello ARSList Wizard-folk,

One of my co-workers has become enmeshed in a comparative analysis of 
BMC Remedy ITSM and IBM Tivoli ITSM. His group was all set to go with the 
ARS-version 7-based Incident, Problem, CMDB,  Knowledge canned applications 
when someone asked, What about Tivoli? I am glad I'm not in his shoes but 
would like to try to help. 

If you have compared the BMC and Tivoli solutions and have any tales to 
tell, documents to share (anonymous attribution or not), or Tivoli gotchas that 
ought to be examined carefully, please let me know (on- or off-list). 

Many thanks for any insights,
Doug Anderson


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Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-16 Thread Rick Cook
Doug, have your people look at the Forrester Wave pdf (which you can get
from BMC's web site) that compares Service Desk platforms.  The Tivoli suite
isn't in there, but about a dozen other (including BMC) are.
 
Rick 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:01 AM
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Subject: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 


Hello ARSList Wizard-folk,

One of my co-workers has become enmeshed in a comparative analysis of BMC
Remedy ITSM and IBM Tivoli ITSM. His group was all set to go with the
ARS-version 7-based Incident, Problem, CMDB,  Knowledge canned applications
when someone asked, What about Tivoli? I am glad I'm not in his shoes but
would like to try to help.

If you have compared the BMC and Tivoli solutions and have any tales to
tell, documents to share (anonymous attribution or not), or Tivoli gotchas
that ought to be examined carefully, please let me know (on- or off-list).

Many thanks for any insights,
Doug Anderson


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Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-16 Thread William Rentfrow
Tivoli ITSM = IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
 
This is not a ITSM type product whatsoever.
 
Historically Tivoli used to own Tivoli Service Desk, which previous to
IBM's acquisition was known as Software Artistry's product line Expert
Advisor.  The acquisition happened in 1997.  Tivoli rebranded
everything in 1998 and spun half of the product line off into a company
named Coreport - Corepoint lasted  9 months.  The entire product line
was sold and killed off right around January of 2000.  Anyone care to
guess who bought it? (Rhymes with Beregrine)
 
Tivoli does not have this type of product line any longer.  Strangely I
know of at least company still running the EA product line.
 
IBM does have some CRM products but nothing extremely similar to Remedy.



From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:13 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 
Doug, have your people look at the Forrester Wave pdf (which you can get
from BMC's web site) that compares Service Desk platforms.  The Tivoli
suite isn't in there, but about a dozen other (including BMC) are.
 
Rick 


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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:01 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** 


Hello ARSList Wizard-folk,

One of my co-workers has become enmeshed in a comparative analysis of
BMC Remedy ITSM and IBM Tivoli ITSM. His group was all set to go with
the ARS-version 7-based Incident, Problem, CMDB,  Knowledge canned
applications when someone asked, What about Tivoli? I am glad I'm not
in his shoes but would like to try to help.

If you have compared the BMC and Tivoli solutions and have any tales to
tell, documents to share (anonymous attribution or not), or Tivoli
gotchas that ought to be examined carefully, please let me know (on- or
off-list).

Many thanks for any insights,
Doug Anderson


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Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-16 Thread Scott Hammons
Correction.  IBM purchased a company called Maximo that has a service desk and 
asset management component.  IBM also has CMDB called Change and Configuration 
Management Database (CCMDB).  I can get info on this products out to you if you 
contact me off list.  It appears to me that they are jumping back into the game 
through acquisition.  From what I've heard about the product and it appears to 
compete well with the Remedy product suite.
 
Hope this helps,
 
Scott
 
Scott Hammons
Principal Tivoli Security Consultant
Advanced Integrated Solutions, Inc.
www.aisconsulting.net
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 



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** 
Tivoli ITSM = IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
 
This is not a ITSM type product whatsoever.
 
Historically Tivoli used to own Tivoli Service Desk, which previous to IBM's 
acquisition was known as Software Artistry's product line Expert Advisor.  
The acquisition happened in 1997.  Tivoli rebranded everything in 1998 and spun 
half of the product line off into a company named Coreport - Corepoint lasted  
9 months.  The entire product line was sold and killed off right around January 
of 2000.  Anyone care to guess who bought it? (Rhymes with Beregrine)
 
Tivoli does not have this type of product line any longer.  Strangely I know of 
at least company still running the EA product line.
 
IBM does have some CRM products but nothing extremely similar to Remedy.



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** 
Doug, have your people look at the Forrester Wave pdf (which you can get from 
BMC's web site) that compares Service Desk platforms.  The Tivoli suite isn't 
in there, but about a dozen other (including BMC) are.
 
Rick 


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Hello ARSList Wizard-folk,

One of my co-workers has become enmeshed in a comparative analysis of BMC 
Remedy ITSM and IBM Tivoli ITSM. His group was all set to go with the 
ARS-version 7-based Incident, Problem, CMDB,  Knowledge canned applications 
when someone asked, What about Tivoli? I am glad I'm not in his shoes but 
would like to try to help.

If you have compared the BMC and Tivoli solutions and have any tales to tell, 
documents to share (anonymous attribution or not), or Tivoli gotchas that ought 
to be examined carefully, please let me know (on- or off-list).

Many thanks for any insights,
Doug Anderson


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Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-16 Thread Emad Zaky

I am sorry Scott,
The Asset part in Maximo is good, since that's what Maximo was originally
built for
The rest of Maximo's ITSM still needs to evolve in a lot of aspects to
compete with Remedy as well as other well established  ITSM apps...


On 5/16/07, Scott Hammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


**  Correction.  IBM purchased a company called Maximo that has a service
desk and asset management component.  IBM also has CMDB called Change and
Configuration Management Database (CCMDB).  I can get info on this products
out to you if you contact me off list.  It appears to me that they are
jumping back into the game through acquisition.  From what I've heard about
the product and it appears to compete well with the Remedy product suite.

Hope this helps,

Scott

Scott Hammons
Principal Tivoli Security Consultant
Advanced Integrated Solutions, Inc.
www.aisconsulting.net
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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William Rentfrow
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*To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
*Subject:* Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** Tivoli ITSM = IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

This is not a ITSM type product whatsoever.

Historically Tivoli used to own Tivoli Service Desk, which previous to
IBM's acquisition was known as Software Artistry's product line Expert
Advisor.  The acquisition happened in 1997.  Tivoli rebranded everything in
1998 and spun half of the product line off into a company named Coreport
- Corepoint lasted  9 months.  The entire product line was sold and killed
off right around January of 2000.  Anyone care to guess who bought it?
(Rhymes with Beregrine)

Tivoli does not have this type of product line any longer.  Strangely I
know of at least company still running the EA product line.

IBM does have some CRM products but nothing extremely similar to Remedy.

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Rick Cook
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:13 AM
*To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
*Subject:* Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


** Doug, have your people look at the Forrester Wave pdf (which you can
get from BMC's web site) that compares Service Desk platforms.  The Tivoli
suite isn't in there, but about a dozen other (including BMC) are.

*Rick*
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*Sent:* Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:01 AM
*To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
*Subject:* BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?


**

Hello ARSList Wizard-folk,

One of my co-workers has become enmeshed in a comparative analysis of BMC
Remedy ITSM and IBM Tivoli ITSM. His group was all set to go with the
ARS-version 7-based Incident, Problem, CMDB,  Knowledge canned applications
when someone asked, What about Tivoli? I am glad I'm not in his shoes but
would like to try to help.

If you have compared the BMC and Tivoli solutions and have any tales to
tell, documents to share (anonymous attribution or not), or Tivoli gotchas
that ought to be examined carefully, please let me know (on- or off-list).

Many thanks for any insights,
Doug Anderson
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