User:The C of E/MV

MainView, currently advertised as BMC MainView is a systems management software produced by BMC Software. It was created in 1990 by Boole & Babbage and became part of BMC Software's services after they bought out Boole & Babbage in a stock swap.

History
MainView was created in 1990 as an office automation software, designed specifically to work on IBM hardware. The product was designed so that companies would be able to automate their data management systems as well as being able to control what is automated. In 1993, it was updated to include support for parallel processors.

The system gained popularity with users being pleased with it's real-time data however expressed dissastisfaction with its usage of counterfactual history to make decisions. In 1998, following BMC Software's purchase of Boole & Babbage, they announced that they would continue to operate MainView by directly integrating it with their IBM hardware products rather than continuing to sell it as specifically as a separate software product. BMC Software continued to upgrade MainView to be compatible with new technologies. In 2016, MainView was upgraded to be compatible with Java Environments.

Advertising
In 1993, Boole & Babbage signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to licence Star Trek for use in their advertising. The first way they used it was to advertise MainView. They produced a short film titled "The Vision", which included Star Trek: The Next Generation's Commander Riker (played by Johnathan Frakes, whom they also signed a spokesman's deal with) on the Bridge of the USS Enterprise to promote MainView. Boole & Babbage also used Frakes to personally promote MainView at the Computer Measurement Group conference as well as to announce that MainView would become available for singular desktop computers later in that year.