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A Mainframe Future Built on AI and Open Integration

BMC's April 2026 release signals a strategic shift from generative AI to agentic AI within its BMC AMI suite, focusing on automating complex workflows and enhancing mainframe produ…

The Next Evolution in Enterprise AI is Purpose-Built

BMC is evolving its mainframe AI strategy from providing simple insights and explanations toward "coordinated intelligence" powered by specialized, policy-aware AI agents. These ag…

Service Orchestration Solves What Scheduling Cannot

While individual application schedulers can automate tasks within their own boundaries, they lack the coordination required to manage complex business processes that span multiple …

Service Orchestration Solves What Scheduling Cannot

This article argues that many organizations unknowingly suffer from a lack of service orchestration, leading to operational friction and incomplete data despite functioning individ…

What Is a Data Pipeline? A Complete Guide

A data pipeline is an automated process for moving and transforming data from various sources into a usable format for analytics and decision-making. It’s comprised of five core co…

How to orchestrate a data pipeline on Google Cloud with Control-M from BMC

This article details how BMC’s Control-M now orchestrates data pipelines on Google Cloud, enabling teams to manage complex workflows across services like Cloud Storage, Dataflow, a…

Unlock Your Data Initiatives with DataOps

This article highlights the growing need for DataOps – applying DevOps and agile principles to data management – as companies struggle to realize value from their data investments.…

Why Orchestration—not More Agents—is the Key to Scaling Enterprise AI

Despite widespread investment in AI agents, the article argues that simply *adding* more agents isn’t the key to realizing AI’s potential. The biggest challenge facing organization…

5 Reasons ETL is the Wrong Approach for Mainframe Data Migration

This article argues that traditional ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is an inefficient approach for modern mainframe data migration. ETL was designed for simpler, database-to-databa…

EMA Names BMC a Value Leader in Workload Automation and Orchestration

BMC’s Control-M has been recognized as the overall highest performer and a “Value Leader” in the 2025 EMA Radar for Workload Automation and Orchestration for the eighth consecutive…

Operationalization and Orchestration: the Keys to Data Project Success

Organizations are consistently struggling to move data projects from development into production, with the vast majority failing to deliver results due to scaling complexities acro…

Orchestrate and Automate to Make DataOps Successful

DataOps orchestration—the automated coordination of data workflows—is crucial for organizations to fully realize the benefits of being data-driven. Without it, data initiatives sta…