Automation giant BMC Software Inc. hopes to capitalize on the rush to trends such mobility and analytics with a new strategy that will focus on streaming the changes in the key areas at the center of the paradigm shift. It’s the culmination of a wide-spanning internal readjustment spearheaded by chief executive Bob Beauchamp.

The 27-year company veteran has been focusing much of his efforts on the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management platform, which provides a framework for orchestrating all the different services that the average enterprise consumes nowadays and constitutes the first pillar of its vision. The target audience are the more than half of IT leaders that an internal study has found are struggling to keep up with the demand for new technologies over on the business side.

Right up there with cloud computing among the biggest pain points in that transition away from the old way of business is the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, which BMC is also working to address with a homegrown device management service and a series of companion apps. The difficulty lies not so much in the technology itself but rather the need to balance the new with existing investments.

That’s the focus of the rest of BMC’s plan, which covers everything from on-premise virtual environments to the aging mainframes on which many institutions still run their most important applications. The strategy calls to address the challenge with a combination of automation and analytics, which rounds out the vision.

BMC has built up an impressive arsenal of data processing capabilities over the past few years that promise to help organizations gain the deep visibility into their infrastructure and workforce needed to start off on a large-scale transformation. It’s a classic end-to-end value proposition that could strike a major chord with CIOs given the complexity of the changes happening around them.

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