Accenture (News - Alert) and BMC Software expanded their services delivery cooperation by signing two new technology agreements.

One agreement requires the companies to jointly develop and implement BMC Business Service Management (BSM) solutions and another is for the provision of consulting and integration services to BMC’s Professional Services organization.

Accenture and BMC Software (News - Alert) are jointly developed, marketed, and implemented packaged and custom BSM solution under the first agreement. BSM provides businesses with a single, integrated IT automation and management platform. Adopting this platform approach enables customers to extract maximum return on their IT investments, while also leveraging key new technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, and software-as-a-service (SaaS (News - Alert)). 

Accenture and BMC Software are working together to provide best-practice solutions to help IT organizations manage assets within their ever-growing infrastructure. The Accenture and BMC IT Asset Management Solution can provide a systematic and enterprise-wide approach to understanding the IT environment. In addition to controlling the total cost of ownership of IT assets, the solution sets the groundwork for future utility-style computing capabilities and represents a highly effective way to align IT with business objectives to create optimal value. 

Both companies intend to focus initially on an integrated IT service management solution (ITSM) based on BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database, BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite, and Accenture technology consulting services. The combined offerings provides companies with an integrated IT automation and management platform that allows them to see how their IT systems are performing while also allowing them to lower their costs and accelerate business growth. 

BMC leverages Accenture technology professionals to increase the capacity of its delivery and implementation capabilities with a dedicated Accenture team providing consulting and integration services to BMC’s Professional Services organization under the second agreement. This new team helps to implement business service management to BMC and its clients. 

“BMC's business service management offerings aim to help IT organizations deliver services more efficiently, reduce costs and improve application performance," said Mary Johnston Turner, IDC (News - Alert) Enterprise Systems management research director, in a release. "IDC is seeing increasing demand for data center automation, capacity planning and analytic tools to help IT organizations streamline operations and cope with the operational complexity caused by virtualization and cloud computing. The extended relationship between Accenture and BMC directly targets these challenges."

Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Tammy Wolf