Broadcom’s CA Technologies acquisition means new priorities.
What does this mean for you?
If your Broadcom contract is coming up for renewal, there’s a strong incentive to find an alternative. How do you make the switch successfully?
An IT manager at a large enterprise telecommunications services company says of BMC Software:
"Solid platform and solutions. Good experiences over two decades."
BMC Software Customer Satisfaction Survey
Breaking the Broadcom hold on your business: It’s about finding the right partners
As enterprises look for more flexible and cost-efficient solutions, the global demand for an alternative has increased dramatically since the Broadcom/CA Technologies acquisition.
Ask some questions:
BMC’s unique total-solution response demonstrates our commitment to customers who don’t think there is a viable alternative to Broadcom/CA:
BMC Software Customer Satisfaction Survey
Nearly 60% of customers surveyed identified the ability to improve business-critical application performance as an important requirement for making the switch from Broadcom to BMC.
The Power of BMC with Compuware
BMC Compuware provides an integrated DevOps toolchain with unparalleled mainframe operations management and agile application development and delivery. This strategic combination builds on the success of BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and Compuware’s Topaz suite, ISPW technology, and classic product portfolios to modernize clients’ mainframe environments.
BMC Compuware enables automation and intelligent operations with agile development and delivery – empowering the next generation of mainframe developers and operations teams to excel when working with mainframe programming languages, applications, data, infrastructure, and security.
Forrester Research’s Chris Condo, Chris Gardner and Diego Lo Guidice had this to say about BMC’s acquisition of Compuware:
“Adding Compuware’s Topaz software development environment to the BMC portfolio is another step in the direction of targeting the enterprise developer. With Topaz, developers take a modern approach to building, testing, and deploying mainframe applications. This move should allow BMC to spread the word that modern tools matter for the mainframe engineer.”
Vendor Consolidation Approach
It’s a myth that you will need a lot of vendors to replace your Broadcom/CA products. This is just a sample of what BMC can do to make you Broadcom free.
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When it comes to migration away from Broadcom/CA, flexibility & expertise matter
It is easier than you think to migrate away from Broadcom/CA. These are the major challenges we think you might be worried about and how you can mitigate them with BMC:
Can BMC help us replace all our Broadcom/CA products?
BMC has extensive experience helping customers migrate away from Broadcom/CA that makes the process quite simple and dramatically limits any impact on your business. BMC leads and manages each project, providing you with one single point of contact to facilitate the transition. Our recent acquisitions expand our capabilities and demonstrate our commitment to our customers that want to break away from the significant limitations of Broadcom/CA.
Can we replace a single Broadcom/CA product, or do we have to replace all of them?
The choice is completely in your hands. You can replace one product, or you can replace them all, if you would like. If your goal is to modernize your IT, upgrading legacy CA products with industry-leading alternatives is mostly likely an imperative to you.
BMC’s objective is to assist you in reaching your strategic goals and there is more at stake than licensing and cost. BMC never locks you in like Broadcom/CA. Our vendor consolidation approach is inherently diverse, and we are adept at creating hybrid solutions.
How can BMC help to mitigate the difficulty and risk in replacing Broadcom/CA products?
It is important to look closely at the immediate and long-term benefits of replacing Broadcom/CA products. Gaining efficiency, productivity, and capabilities that drive digital transformation can create a compelling business case that outweighs any perceived business risk.
BMC’s extensive experience with Broadcom/CA migrations and proven best practices minimize risk. We are able to do a “run and replace” strategy with zero-downtime implementation for any solution component and can easily stage deployment with minimal disruption.
How flexible can BMC be with financing to support us during Broadcom/CA migration?
BMC understands that every financial situation is unique. We can be very flexible and will work with you every step of the way to plan, prioritize, and stage deployment around your specific financial requirements.
A recent BMC survey ranked the top saving customer requirements to make a switch from Broadcom/CA to BMC
BMC Software Customer Satisfaction Survey
BMC Mainframe Services
Why BMC for Professional Services?
Preparing for a digital future: Is your Broadcom/CA solution stack able to get you there?
To fully realize digital innovation and transformation, you need solutions that let you run your business while you reinvent it by optimizing existing tools and processes. BMC solutions do that for you.
Customers are migrating from Broadcom/CA at an ever-increasing rate
BMC Software Customer Satisfaction Survey
These are the building blocks of the BMC portfolio that provide key core capabilities that can replace your existing Broadcom/CA solution stack:
Workload automation
Workload Automation and Application Workflow Orchestration
Define, schedule, manage and monitor your application workflows with Control-M ensuring visibility, reliability, and improving SLAs.
Key BMC capabilities
Questions to ask — can your solution:
Automate workflows across multi-cloud environments with a single point of control?
BMC Can Be Your Single Vendor for Mainframe Application Development, Data Management, Operations, and Security
App Dev / DevOps
Modernize and mainstream your mainframe application development
Improve mainframe code quality by introducing automated testing to shift-left quality checks
Questions to ask — can your solution:
Do your developers have an easy environment to leverage all development, testing & maintenance tools in one location?
Support, secure and optimize your mainframe with managed and professional services delivered by a global team of experts with over 750 years of combined experience.
Key Questions to Ask Mainframe Customers
Operations:
Do you know your cost of unplanned downtime?
Data Management:
Are you able to ensure 100% customer data availability with your current Db2 and IMS utilities?
Security:
How would you know if someone gained unauthenticated access to your mainframe?
Why Enterprises are Adopting Mainframe DevOps
The Benefits of DevOps on the Mainframe
According to BMC’s 2020 Mainframe Survey, organizations that have implemented DevOps:
Named greater stability (37 percent), improved application quality (35 percent), security (35 percent), and 37 percent cited benefits in application deployment.
IT Service Management and IT Operations Management
Improving the performance, security, and cost of application and infrastructure services by leveraging intelligent operations, machine learning, advanced analytics, and big data technologies.
Key BMC capabilities
Capacity management, planning and optimization for virtual, physical, and big data environments
Questions to ask — can your solution:
Deliver built-in security remediation for servers and network devices with operations and security views, all in a single tool?
IT Service Management
Drive new levels of agility, productivity, and efficiency through digital automation and AI.
Key BMC capabilities
Intelligent persona-based UI for an improved user experience
Questions to ask — can your solution:
Deliver an intelligent, user-centric experience across devices?
Continue the Conversation
There’s much more to discuss about how BMC can help you Break Free from Broadcom. To continue the conversation, contact your BMC representative.
