BMC is not disclosing the sale price. BMC's annual revenue through March was approximately $2.1 billion.

Earlier this year, BMC , a Web application performance firm.

The BMC and Aeroprise combination is already used on a range of IT service tools, including help desk, problem management, asset management, budgeting and planning as well as resource tracking products.

Gupta said BMC developers can now better take advantage of Aeroprise's mobile expertise to extend the capabilities to the rest of the BMC portfolio.

Fred Broussard, an analyst at IDC, said that "the acquisition gives BMC a platform onto which they can continue developing mobile solutions for their IT service management suite of products".