BMC Switzerland primarily used for research and development by the company's design and engineering teams. Professional cycling teams and athletes riding BMC's bikes have won the Tour de France, the Tour de Romandie, the Tirreno–Adriatico, the Tour de Wallonie, the Paris–Tours, Critérium International, Paris–Roubaix, and many other high-profile events. In 2014 and 2015 the BMC Racing Team won the UCI Team Time Trial World Championships. In 2015, Australian rider Rohan Dennis broke the hour record on a BMC. BMC currently sponsors the BMC Racing Team, whose former leader, Cadel Evans won the 2011 Tour de France, the BMC Mountain Bike Racing Team
BMC Software alert IT staffs to problems and suggest remedies." In July 2007, BMC bought RealOps, a provider of run book automation solutions. The acquisition helped BMC create an "all-in-one service management solution" that "integrates diverse multi-vendor technologies" while enhancing "service availability" yet minimizing interruptions. In October 2007, BMC bought Emprisa Networks (based in Fairfax, Virginia) "for its network compliance, change, configuration management and automation product". Analysts from Gartner Group commented: "BMC is correctly framing the Emprisa acquisition as a key step in its developing end-to-end IT service automation strategy, which leverages BMC's strength in configuration management databases (CMDBs) and change management."