BMC Automation Passport Maximize business value from IT automation BMC Automation Passport A strategic methodology for using automation to transform the business value of IT Based on best practices derived from some of BMC’s most successful customers, Automation Passport links your business objectives to incremental automation projects that increase IT speed and agility, reduce costs, and improve compliance with corporate and regulatory standards. be agile In the digital age, IT is critical to business success. To thrive and stay ahead of the competition, your IT organization must deliver services faster than ever before. BMC Automation Passport enables IT to deliver services more rapidly, enabling continuous, flexible, and reliable response to changing business requirements—up to five times faster in time to market. crush costs Driving costs out of your IT infrastructure is an ongoing challenge. By optimizing across your organization instead of just automating within individual silos, IT drives more business value and makes huge improvements in infrastructure costs—reductions by up to a factor of three. reduce risk Compliance and security failures can be catastrophic to a business. Issues with compliance and security can incur hundreds of millions of dollars in direct costs and threaten precious brand value and customer loyalty. Automation Passport enables IT to reduce vulnerability to attacks and improve compliance with regulatory and operational policies— reducing remediation time by up to a factor of ten. Get to Know BMC Automation Passport To drive strategic value from automation, you must execute a strategic plan—ad hoc automation projects implemented in silos may improve individual IT metrics, but they don’t significantly benefit your overall business. Passport recommends you start with an Automation Level Assessment to document your business goals, and then create short- and long-term requirements for the automation process, tool deployment, and organizational readiness. This facilitates a long-term automation plan that includes incremental projects to deliver immediate benefits, while also positioning you for increasingly more sophisticated and valuable projects in the future. Faster release of applications Improvement in IT infrastructure costs Reduction in the time required to resolve critical compliance and security issues By linking IT value to business value with a solid strategy, the result is predictable long-term improvement in the metrics that matter most. Using Passport, BMC customers around the world have created transformational business results. Bring IT to Life at bmc.com For your next step with BMC Automation Passport, contact us for a customized Automation Strategy Session to begin your journey to automation business value. To learn more, visit bmc.com/passport. © Copyright 2014 BMC Software, Inc.