Kiam's memorable advertising quip sums up why BMC bought Aeroprise, which has been for BMC products for about four years.

Aeroprise apps are now available for Apple iOS, iPhone and IPad, Research in Motion's BlackBerry, Google Android and Microsoft Windows devices.

BMC said more and more of its customers are tablet devices and smartphones to run management apps. Analyst have long identified the trend of workers using what are often their own devices for work as the " ."

The increasing importance of mobility, coupled with BMC's familiarity with Aeroprise's capabilities, underpinned the acquisition announced Thursday.

"This transaction allows us to drive better alignment on future products," said Rohit Gupta, BMC's vice president and general manager of service support. "It gives us internal expertise on mobile application development."