
BMC announced the BMC Innovation Labs Preferred Partner Program, a high-touch, extremely collaborative co-innovation program built for, and with, BMC partners and customers.
The program is focused on ideation and experimentation to design and ultimately commercialize modern technology solutions to support customers on their Autonomous Digital Enterprise journey.
The BMC Innovation Labs Preferred Partner Program was created to provide dedicated spaces for partners to develop new and disruptive ideas that go beyond traditional enterprise IT. It embraces fresh thinking and new perspectives, and takes advantage of group ideation through a rich partner ecosystem to anticipate and addresses customers’ needs quickly and more effectively. Customers also support the innovation journey by collaborating with both BMC and its Innovation Labs preferred partners to develop, test, and provide real-time feedback, delivering immediate value.
BMC introduced the Innovation Labs in 2020, and programming is initially focused on co-innovation across industries including oil and gas, retail, customer service, transportation, and communications service providers among others. The program will also focus on developing solutions using technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, knowledge analytics, blockchain, and big data automation.
“BMC has a history of innovation to help our customers continue to transform. Today, we have our eye on the future, and our partners play an important role,” said Ram Chakravarti, CTO. “Our innovation ecosystem aims to bring together some of the industry’s brightest minds to design game-changing solutions, test and apply new technologies – and ultimately build aligned technology roadmaps for commercially viable solutions ...”
Within this ecosystem, selected BMC Innovation Labs preferred partners can expect access to new innovations, support to design game-changing solutions, and aligned technology roadmaps that help provide a faster time-to-value for everyone involved. BMC partners can visit the BMC Innovation Labs Preferred Partner Program website to request consideration for the invitation-only program.
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