IT Races to Adopt the Cloud: BMC Software Doubles Remedyforce Customer Base in Less Than Six Months

BMC Software, the recognized leader in Business Service Management, today announced that more than 300 enterprises have adopted its cloud-based IT service management solutions, which are growing much faster than other solutions in the market. This includes the BMC Remedyforce Service Desk solution, which has doubled its customer base in less than six months.

Since its introduction more than 15 months ago, clients have adopted the BMC Remedyforce Service Desk solution quicker than any other competitor offering within a similar timeframe. For instance, a large, internet-based financial institution recently selected Remedyforce over other solutions from companies like ServiceNow. Clients take advantage of best-practice alignment, which affords them the speed, efficiency and lower operational costs of a cloud application with the standardization and scalability of IT Infrastructure Library®-based processes.

"Our clients are using mobile devices more and more to manage their travel arrangements, which creates an 'always on' environment that requires a similar response time from our IT department. We chose Remedyforce to help us meet the growing demands of our service desk and enhance responsiveness to our clients and service network," said Lanre Omotayo, IT manager, Canadian North. "We can easily and consistently support remote users in differing time zones with Remedyforce. Most importantly, the solution has saved us time and money with no infrastructure costs."

The IT help desk built for the social enterprise

"Remedyforce is the IT help desk built for the social enterprise," said Ron Huddleston, senior vice president, ISV and Alliances, salesforce.com. "Through continued technology, BMC and salesforce.com are committed to helping IT departments achieve greater success through the power of social and mobile cloud computing found in Force.com and Chatter."

The latest release of the BMC Remedyforce Service Desk solution offers even higher levels of productivity for end users with innovative new capabilities for service request management and the integration of social media and external sources in a really modern knowledge management system, which improves customer satisfaction and provides significant gains in efficiency for IT. Additionally, BMC Remedy OnDemand delivers the market-leading IT service management solution for enterprises as a subscription-based service from the cloud. BMC will continue to provide the ultimate response to the needs of ITSM via contemporary innovation, including advancements in user interfaces, customization and valuable integrations.

More than 25,000 IT organizations - from the Global 100 to the smallest businesses - in over 120 countries rely on BMC Software to manage their business services and applications across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments. With the leading Business Service Management platform, Cloud Management, and the industry's broadest choice of IT management solutions, BMC helps clients cut costs, reduce risk and achieve business objectives. For the four fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2011, BMC revenue was in broad outline $2.2 billion. For more information about BMC Software, please visit www.bmc.com.