The Business Challenge

While BMC Software's BMC CONTROL-M is already the workload automation solution for over 2,000 leading organizations and the only solution in the Leaders area of Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling, too few IT organizations take advantage of field-proven, cost-effective BMC CONTROL-M consulting. Without an objective, knowledgeable partner at your side, your risks will grow even as your batch scheduling results fall well short of BMC CONTROL-M’s full potential.

The Column Solution - BMC CONTROL-M Services

Whatever your needs, Column Technologies’ BMC CONTROL-M services can help. Each brings the right combination of BMC CONTROL-M experience and knowledge of how to best align your people, processes, and technology. You’ll also enjoy having a single provider who can coordinate your full portfolio of Business Service Management (BSM) solutions and free you from frustrating, time-consuming vendor management.

Datasheet: BMC CONTROL-M Workload Automation and Job Scheduling (370 KB).

Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, we tailor our set of best practices and tools to move you toward a lasting competitive advantage. Drawing on our extensive BMC Software knowledge and project management experience, we can help you:

• use leading-edge technology and cost-saving project management to safely implement BMC CONTROL-M. Throughout your engagement, our professional services team will use proven assessment and planning tools to ensure our results meet your performance, availability, and disaster recovery needs.

• use a flexible, step-by-step approach to rapidly and securely migrate BMC CONTROL-M. Our standards-based methodology and expert guidance can help integrate data from your schedulers, enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, and Java Web Services into a highly available, enterprise-wide workload automation solution.

• customize BMC CONTROL-M using a collaborative approach that gathers your requirements, assesses your solution, and helps you understand and evaluate your options. When our parameter changes, configuration updates, and tailoring are complete, you’ll experience the full potential of BMC CONTROL-M's features, including agentless technology, virtualization, version control, and job comparison.

• realize the full value of mentoring and coaching to develop your staff's BMC CONTROL-M skills. With on-the-job coaching that reinforces classroom training, your organization will soon independently manage and improve your solution’s performance.

• ensure BMC CONTROL-M’s continued high performance and regulatory compliance with our quality and environment testing services. Our independent perspective can help ensure your solution’s full compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), CobIT, and HIPPA using tools such as internal control, change management, reporting, and version control.

To learn how Column's BMC CONTROL-M consulting services can improve performance while reducing costs and risk, you can contact a Column office, have Column contact you, or chat with a Column representative.