# BMC Software

> BMC Software is a Houston-founded enterprise software company that builds the IT operations, service management, and mainframe automation tools that keep large organizations running. Founded in 1980 by three former Shell engineers, BMC has spent four decades turning the unglamorous work of keeping systems alive - monitoring, scheduling, patching, recovering - into automated, increasingly AI-driven products. Its flagship lines include Control-M (workload automation), the BMC AMI mainframe suite, and BMC Helix (service and operations management). Owned by KKR since 2018, BMC split into two focused companies, BMC and BMC Helix, in early 2025.

- **Founded:** 1980
- **Headquarters:** Houston, Texas, United States
- **Founders:** Scott Boulette (Co-founder), John Moores (Co-founder & first CEO), Dan Cloer (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 6,400 employees
- **Products:** Control-M, BMC AMI, BMC Helix, BMC HelixGPT, TrueSight / Helix Operations
- **Notable:** Founded in 1980 and reached $1 million in annual sales within a year, IPO in 1988; later traded on the NYSE under ticker BMC, Acquired by KKR in 2018 in one of the largest software take-privates of its era

## Products & services

- **Control-M** — Application and data workflow orchestration platform for running and scaling high-volume batch and business-critical job scheduling.
- **BMC AMI** — Automated Mainframe Intelligence suite that applies AI/ML to mainframe performance, security, data protection, and DevOps.
- **BMC Helix** — Cloud-native service and operations management platform (formerly Remedy) with agentic AI, ITSM, ITOM, AIOps, and discovery - now an independent company.
- **BMC HelixGPT** — Generative and agentic AI layer powering custom no-code agents, post-mortem analysis, and Ops Swarmer collaboration inside incidents.
- **TrueSight / Helix Operations** — AIOps and performance monitoring for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Founded in 1980 and reached $1 million in annual sales within a year
- IPO in 1988; later traded on the NYSE under ticker BMC
- Acquired by KKR in 2018 in one of the largest software take-privates of its era
- Split into two focused companies, BMC and BMC Helix, in early 2025
- BMC Helix earned the highest possible scores in Agentic AI, advisor, and assistant criteria in The Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — BMC Software formally split into two independent, KKR-owned companies: BMC (mainframe and automation) and BMC Helix (service and operations management).
- **2025-04** — BMC Helix earned top scores for Agentic AI in The Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025.
- **2025-05** — BMC Helix Service Management 25.2 launched agentic AI features including HelixGPT Agent Builder, Post Mortem Analyzer, and Ops Swarmer.
- **2026-04** — BMC Helix announced its first-ever Solution Provider Partners of the Year at the BMC Helix Sales Kickoff in Miami.

## Links

- Website: https://www.bmc.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bmc-software
- Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/bmcsoftware
- GitHub: https://github.com/bmc-software
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bmcsoftware
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bmcsoftware

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Last updated: 2026-06-02