Abstract
Overview
Introduction
This report provides a summary of IT systems management vendors' capabilities
based on a quantitative assessment of their market impact and end user
sentiment, as well as the technology features that they offer. Datamonitor
also provides guidance for enterprises looking to deploy IT systems management
solutions.
Scope
- Provides an overview of the most important trends affecting the IT systems
management market and influencing its competitive dynamics.
- Delivers an overall comparison of IT systems management vendors in terms
of their technology, user sentiment and market impact.
- Presents a detailed view of each vendor' s IT systems management offering
and capabilities, as well as advice on the suitability these offerings.
- The report covers the following IT systems management vendors: BMC, CA,
EMC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Microsoft, Novell and Symantec.
Report Highlights
Both HP and IBM have been very innovative in terms of technology and have
coupled their impressive technology breadth with thought leadership and
customer focus. IBM maintains a lead with regards to very advanced features
and IT concepts, while HP has been better at tapping into the rapidly growing
SME market.
BMC has significant technology strengths in areas such as configuration
management, interoperability, scalability and monitoring. BMC is particularly
strong in mainframe management, which is its most mature solution and it is
also on the forefront of CMDB development.
Novell' s ZENWorks offering has many key strengths that can serve enterprises
with specific requirements well. Any enterprise with an environment that
includes mixed virtualized and non-virtualized environments will benefit
greatly from Novell' s solution, so will enterprises that require extensive
Linux management.
Reasons to Purchase
- Gain detailed knowledge of IT systems management vendors' strengths with
regards to technology, user sentiment and market impact.
- IT systems management vendors can benchmark their own performance against
that of their competitors according to various key metrics.
- Enterprise IT managers will gain valuable insight to improve their IT
systems management purchasing decisions.
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