Key concepts
This section describes the key concepts to help you be successful with your BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management implementation. For more information, see the following topics:
Concept | Description |
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Business Service Management | This topic provides an overview of Business Service Management (BSM). BSM provides a comprehensive and unified platform that simultaneously optimizes IT costs, demonstrates transparency, increases business value, controls risk, and assures quality of service. Delivering an "ERP for IT," BSM simplifies, standardizes, and automates IT processes so that you can manage business services efficiently across their lifecycle—across distributed, mainframe, virtual, and cloud-based resources. With BSM, your organization has the trusted information it needs, can prioritize work based on business critical services, and can orchestrate workflow across your core IT management functions. |
Business value | This topic explains the business value of the BSM for Cloud Computing initiative and describes the associated value paths that enable you to be successful with your cloud implementation. It includes sections that discuss: |
User goals and features | The topics in this section provide an overview of the key features of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management: |
Getting started by user role | This topic describes the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management user roles for cloud environments, each of which has different sets of responsibilities:
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Architecture | The topics in this section provide an overview of the solution architecture as well as a description of the tiers and product components in the solution. |
Networking models | This topic provides links to BMC Network Automation online technical documentation topics that provide information about the models used for BMC Network Automation cloud implementations. |
Glossary | This topic defines the terms commonly used in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management documentation. |
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