links for 2008-06-18

• BMC Acquires ITM Software
  had not heard of them before the announcment. looks like a service catalog that evolved into doing business analytics on named resources. I assume this will become an extention point to Atrium. need to read more about them.
  (tags: resource-reconciliation analytics)
• HP Introduces New Software to Automate Business Service Changes and Problem Resolution
  just as i thought i had the portfolio pieced together with my previous posts…they go and add this. It appears to be mostly integration points and a new SaaS offering that combines 3 products now available via SaaS.