BMC Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: BMC) is a multinational corporation specializing in Business Service Management (BSM) software, with record annual revenue in fiscal 2009 of $1.87 billion. BMC is one of the largest software companies in the world[2] and has grown total revenue each fiscal year since 2002.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, BMC develops, markets and sells software used for multiple functions, including IT service management, data center automation, performance management, virtualization lifecycle management and cloud computing management. The name "BMC" is taken from the surname of its three founders—Scott Boulette, John Moores, and Dan Cloer.
Employing nearly 6,000, BMC is often credited with pioneering the BSM concept as a way to help better align IT operations with business needs.
BMC Software, Inc. is a software vendor. The Company provides systems management, service management and automation solutions primarily for large enterprises. Its portfolio of software solutions include mainframe, distributed and virtualized systems, applications, databases and information technology (IT) process management functions. The Company also provides its customers with maintenance and support for its products and perform services for software implementation, integration, IT process design, and re-engineering and education. The Company operates in two segments: Enterprise Service Management (ESM) and Mainframe Service Management (MSM). In December 2009, the Company acquired Phurnace Software, Inc. (Phurnace Software). In October 2009, the Company acquired Tideway Systems Limited (Tideway Systems). In August 2009, it acquired MQSoftware, Inc. (MQSoftware). In October 2010, the Company acquired Neptuny’s software business, a European-based capacity management and information technology performance optimization solution. In December 2010, the Company acquired GridApp Systems, Inc. In December 2010, the Company acquired GridApp Systems, Inc. In April 2011, the Company acquired Coradiant Inc.
Enterprise Service Management (ESM)
The Company’s ESM segment consists of its solutions and related professional services in IT management areas, which include service assurance, service automation, service support and BMC Atrium. The Company’s service assurance offerings manage IT functions and processes, such as event management, service impact management and capacity management and provide proactive analytics to help IT identify issues before end users are affected by performance problems. Its service automation offerings manage IT functions and processes, such as server and application provisioning, the management of configuration settings and changes, as well as compliance with configuration policies.
The Company’s service support offerings manage IT functions and processes, such as the service desk, incident management, service request management, problem management, asset configuration management, service level management, change and release management, and identity management. Its BMC Atrium offering provides a range of shared foundational technologies that unifies data and processes from disparate management tools and also discovers, models, visualizes and assigns priorities to business services. It includes its BMC Atrium CMDB and CMDB. Its BMC Atrium solution also includes asset and application dependency discovery and mapping, process and task workflow orchestration, service level management and dashboard and analytic reporting solutions.
Mainframe Service Management (MSM)
The Company’s MSM solutions are organized into two areas: data and performance management, and enterprise scheduling and output management. Its mainframe data and performance management solutions ensure the availability of the business critical data, applications and systems that support the bottom line for many of the companies worldwide. The Company’s Control-M product line provides a range of features, which enable data centers to automate their workloads and critical business processes. Its Control-M product line orchestrates and optimizes dispersed and disparate management processes across multiple locations and platforms and provides the facilities to centrally monitor and manage workload elements required to support the batch portion of the organization’s business services. Its Control-D product line automates the task of managing the life cycle of mainframe output reports with facilities, which include report decollation, distribution, bundling, viewing, archival and deletion.
The Company competes with International Business Machines Corporation, CA, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company.
BMC is a multinational firm operating in North America, Australia, Europe, and Asia and has multiple offices located around the world. The company's international headquarters is located at 2101 CityWest Boulevard, Houston, Texas, United States. In June 2006, Thomas Properties Group Inc., through its joint venture with the California State Teachers' Retirement System, agreed to buy BMC Software Inc.'s Houston campus for $295 million
OVERALL
Beta: 0.71
Market Cap (Mil.): $8,972.13
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 178.62
Annual Dividend: --
Yield (%): --
FINANCIALS
BMC.O Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): 20.36 23.85 19.30
EPS (TTM): 24.83 -- --
ROI: 16.14 9.86 16.19
ROE: 31.04 12.84 17.86
Statistics:
Public Company
Incorporated: 1907 as Buckbee-Mears Company
Employees: 2,405
Sales: $248.1 million (2002)
Stock Exchanges: OTC Bulletin Board
Ticker Symbol: BMMI
NAIC: 334419 Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; 339115 Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing
Key Dates:
1907: Cousins Charles E. Buckbee and Norman T. Mears establish Buckbee-Mears Company, which operates a photoengraving plant in St. Paul, Minnesota.
1963: Company perfects production of the shadow mask, a key component in color televisions.
1966: Buckbee-Mears is taken public.
1968: Company enters the ophthalmic lens business through the purchase of Vision-Ease Lens, Inc. of St. Cloud, Minnesota.
1982: Turnaround specialist Ryal Poppa is named CEO, and he engineers an acquisitions-led drive into electronics.
1983: Company changes its name to BMC Industries, Inc.
1985: Poppa leaves the company, having saddled it with a high debt load; BMC announces it will divest its nascent electronics business.
1998: BMC acquires polycarbonate lens maker Orcolite, which is merged into Vision-Ease; plunging demand for aperture masks leads to a net loss for the year.
2002: Restructuring efforts include the closure of two plants and the elimination of hundreds of jobs.
2003: Worsening conditions in the aperture mask market lead to the closure of mask operations in Europe and a refocusing of the company on its Vision-Ease unit; company stock is delisted from the New York Stock Exchange; BMC verges on bankruptcy as it falls out of compliance with its bank loan.
Name Age Since Current Position
Beauchamp, Robert 51 2008 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
Solcher, Stephen 49 2005 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President
Clolery, Denise 54 2005 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Grant, James 60 2008 Senior Vice President - Strategy and Corporate Development
Miller, William 59 2008 Senior Vice President, President - Mainframe Service Management
Goddard, David 54 2008 Senior Vice President - Business Operations
Castro, Hollie 41 2009 Senior Vice President - Administration
Bleuer, T. Cory 40 2006 Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President, Controller
Gafner, Meldon 62 1987 Independent Director
Tinsley, Tom 57 1997 Independent Director
Barfield, Jon 59 2010 Independent Presiding Director
O'Neil, Kathleen 58 2002 Independent Director
Lavigne, Louis 62 2008 Independent Director
Jenkins, P. Thomas 50 2004 Independent Director
Bloom, Gary 50 2007 Independent Director
Hawkins, Mark 51 2010 Independent Director
James, Stephan 64 2010 Independent Director
COMPANY ADDRESS
BMC Software Inc
2101 CityWest Boulevard
Houston TX 77042
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, BMC develops, markets and sells software used for multiple functions, including IT service management, data center automation, performance management, virtualization lifecycle management and cloud computing management. The name "BMC" is taken from the surname of its three founders—Scott Boulette, John Moores, and Dan Cloer.
Employing nearly 6,000, BMC is often credited with pioneering the BSM concept as a way to help better align IT operations with business needs.
BMC Software, Inc. is a software vendor. The Company provides systems management, service management and automation solutions primarily for large enterprises. Its portfolio of software solutions include mainframe, distributed and virtualized systems, applications, databases and information technology (IT) process management functions. The Company also provides its customers with maintenance and support for its products and perform services for software implementation, integration, IT process design, and re-engineering and education. The Company operates in two segments: Enterprise Service Management (ESM) and Mainframe Service Management (MSM). In December 2009, the Company acquired Phurnace Software, Inc. (Phurnace Software). In October 2009, the Company acquired Tideway Systems Limited (Tideway Systems). In August 2009, it acquired MQSoftware, Inc. (MQSoftware). In October 2010, the Company acquired Neptuny’s software business, a European-based capacity management and information technology performance optimization solution. In December 2010, the Company acquired GridApp Systems, Inc. In December 2010, the Company acquired GridApp Systems, Inc. In April 2011, the Company acquired Coradiant Inc.
Enterprise Service Management (ESM)
The Company’s ESM segment consists of its solutions and related professional services in IT management areas, which include service assurance, service automation, service support and BMC Atrium. The Company’s service assurance offerings manage IT functions and processes, such as event management, service impact management and capacity management and provide proactive analytics to help IT identify issues before end users are affected by performance problems. Its service automation offerings manage IT functions and processes, such as server and application provisioning, the management of configuration settings and changes, as well as compliance with configuration policies.
The Company’s service support offerings manage IT functions and processes, such as the service desk, incident management, service request management, problem management, asset configuration management, service level management, change and release management, and identity management. Its BMC Atrium offering provides a range of shared foundational technologies that unifies data and processes from disparate management tools and also discovers, models, visualizes and assigns priorities to business services. It includes its BMC Atrium CMDB and CMDB. Its BMC Atrium solution also includes asset and application dependency discovery and mapping, process and task workflow orchestration, service level management and dashboard and analytic reporting solutions.
Mainframe Service Management (MSM)
The Company’s MSM solutions are organized into two areas: data and performance management, and enterprise scheduling and output management. Its mainframe data and performance management solutions ensure the availability of the business critical data, applications and systems that support the bottom line for many of the companies worldwide. The Company’s Control-M product line provides a range of features, which enable data centers to automate their workloads and critical business processes. Its Control-M product line orchestrates and optimizes dispersed and disparate management processes across multiple locations and platforms and provides the facilities to centrally monitor and manage workload elements required to support the batch portion of the organization’s business services. Its Control-D product line automates the task of managing the life cycle of mainframe output reports with facilities, which include report decollation, distribution, bundling, viewing, archival and deletion.
The Company competes with International Business Machines Corporation, CA, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company.
BMC is a multinational firm operating in North America, Australia, Europe, and Asia and has multiple offices located around the world. The company's international headquarters is located at 2101 CityWest Boulevard, Houston, Texas, United States. In June 2006, Thomas Properties Group Inc., through its joint venture with the California State Teachers' Retirement System, agreed to buy BMC Software Inc.'s Houston campus for $295 million
OVERALL
Beta: 0.71
Market Cap (Mil.): $8,972.13
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 178.62
Annual Dividend: --
Yield (%): --
FINANCIALS
BMC.O Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): 20.36 23.85 19.30
EPS (TTM): 24.83 -- --
ROI: 16.14 9.86 16.19
ROE: 31.04 12.84 17.86
Statistics:
Public Company
Incorporated: 1907 as Buckbee-Mears Company
Employees: 2,405
Sales: $248.1 million (2002)
Stock Exchanges: OTC Bulletin Board
Ticker Symbol: BMMI
NAIC: 334419 Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; 339115 Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing
Key Dates:
1907: Cousins Charles E. Buckbee and Norman T. Mears establish Buckbee-Mears Company, which operates a photoengraving plant in St. Paul, Minnesota.
1963: Company perfects production of the shadow mask, a key component in color televisions.
1966: Buckbee-Mears is taken public.
1968: Company enters the ophthalmic lens business through the purchase of Vision-Ease Lens, Inc. of St. Cloud, Minnesota.
1982: Turnaround specialist Ryal Poppa is named CEO, and he engineers an acquisitions-led drive into electronics.
1983: Company changes its name to BMC Industries, Inc.
1985: Poppa leaves the company, having saddled it with a high debt load; BMC announces it will divest its nascent electronics business.
1998: BMC acquires polycarbonate lens maker Orcolite, which is merged into Vision-Ease; plunging demand for aperture masks leads to a net loss for the year.
2002: Restructuring efforts include the closure of two plants and the elimination of hundreds of jobs.
2003: Worsening conditions in the aperture mask market lead to the closure of mask operations in Europe and a refocusing of the company on its Vision-Ease unit; company stock is delisted from the New York Stock Exchange; BMC verges on bankruptcy as it falls out of compliance with its bank loan.
Name Age Since Current Position
Beauchamp, Robert 51 2008 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
Solcher, Stephen 49 2005 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President
Clolery, Denise 54 2005 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Grant, James 60 2008 Senior Vice President - Strategy and Corporate Development
Miller, William 59 2008 Senior Vice President, President - Mainframe Service Management
Goddard, David 54 2008 Senior Vice President - Business Operations
Castro, Hollie 41 2009 Senior Vice President - Administration
Bleuer, T. Cory 40 2006 Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President, Controller
Gafner, Meldon 62 1987 Independent Director
Tinsley, Tom 57 1997 Independent Director
Barfield, Jon 59 2010 Independent Presiding Director
O'Neil, Kathleen 58 2002 Independent Director
Lavigne, Louis 62 2008 Independent Director
Jenkins, P. Thomas 50 2004 Independent Director
Bloom, Gary 50 2007 Independent Director
Hawkins, Mark 51 2010 Independent Director
James, Stephan 64 2010 Independent Director
COMPANY ADDRESS
BMC Software Inc
2101 CityWest Boulevard
Houston TX 77042
Last edited: