Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools
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1 Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools 11 June 2015 ID:G Analyst(s): Kevin Knox, Terrence Cosgrove VIEW SUMMARY EVALUATION CRITERIA DEFINITIONS Despite being a relatively mature technology, new product capabilities and diverging vendor strategies make selecting a client management tool vendor as challenging as ever for end user computing and support managers. Market Definition/Description End user computing and support organizations use client management tools (CMTs) to automate system administration and support functions that would otherwise be handled manually. CMT image client systems, track inventory, deploy configuration changes (such as software or patches), enforce configuration standards and assist with troubleshooting. Windows PCs are the primary object of management, but organizations often extend these products to manage Macs and even servers. Enterprise mobility management (EMM) is still a separate market, but organizations increasingly look for a single vendor and management platform to support PCs, Macs and mobile devices. Magic Quadrant Figure 1. Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools Source: Gartner (June 2015) Vendor and Ability to Execute Product/Service: Core goods and services offered by the vendor for the defined market. This includes current product/service capabilities, quality, feature sets, skills and so on, whether offered natively or through OEM agreements/partnerships as defined in the market definition and detailed in the subcriteria. Overall Viability: Viability includes an assessment of the overall organization's financial health, the financial and practical success of the business unit, and the likelihood that the individual business unit will continue investing in the product, will continue offering the product and will advance the state of the art within the organization's portfolio of products. Sales Execution/Pricing: The vendor's capabilities in all presales activities and the structure that supports them. This includes deal management, pricing and negotiation, presales support, and the overall effectiveness of the sales channel. Market Responsiveness/Record: Ability to respond, change direction, be flexible and achieve competitive success as opportunities develop, competitors act, customer needs evolve and market dynamics change. This criterion also considers the vendor's history of responsiveness. Marketing Execution: The clarity, quality, creativity and efficacy of programs designed to deliver the organization's message to influence the market, promote the brand and business, increase awareness of the products, and establish a positive identification with the product/brand and organization in the minds of buyers. This "mind share" can be driven by a combination of publicity, promotional initiatives, thought leadership, word of mouth and sales activities. Customer Experience: Relationships, products and services/programs that enable clients to be successful with the products evaluated. Specifically, this includes the ways customers receive technical support or account support. This can also include ancillary tools, customer support programs (and the quality thereof), availability of user groups, service level agreements and so on. Operations: The ability of the organization to meet its goals and commitments. Factors include the quality of the organizational structure, including skills, experiences, programs, systems and other vehicles that enable the organization to operate effectively and efficiently on an ongoing basis. Completeness of Vision Market Understanding: Ability of the vendor to understand buyers' wants and needs and to translate those into products and services. Vendors that show the highest degree of vision listen to and understand buyers' wants and needs, and can shape or enhance those with their added vision. Marketing Strategy: A clear, differentiated set of messages consistently communicated throughout the organization and externalized through the website, advertising, customer programs and positioning statements. Sales Strategy: The strategy for selling products that uses the appropriate network of direct and indirect sales, marketing, service, and communication affiliates that extend the scope and depth of market reach, skills, expertise, technologies, services and the customer base. Offering (Product) Strategy: The vendor's approach to product development and delivery that emphasizes 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= Absolute Software 1/10
2 Absolute Software Absolute Software's Absolute Manage is a leading product for managing mixed Windows and Macintosh environments. The interfaces, functionality and processes used for management remain consistent, regardless of the type of system being managed. A unique feature of Absolute Manage is its use of Persistence technology, which is embedded in the firmware of most PCs and automatically reinstalls the software agent if it is removed. Absolute Manage does not provide the depth or breadth of management functionality that most large enterprises require, but its ease of use, user interface and price point are well aligned for small and midsize organizations, particularly educational accounts, where Absolute Manage has enjoyed its greatest success. Absolute Manage is a good choice for small and midsize organizations looking for consistent management capabilities across Windows and Mac at an aggressive price point. Absolute Manage provides consistent management capabilities and tight functional interoperability across Mac and Windows platforms. Persistence technology provides strong agent health and hardware inventory management capabilities. differentiation, functionality, methodology and feature sets as they map to current and future requirements. Business Model: The soundness and logic of the vendor's underlying business proposition. Vertical/Industry Strategy: The vendor's strategy to direct resources, skills and offerings to meet the specific needs of individual market segments, including vertical markets. Innovation: Direct, related, complementary and synergistic layouts of resources, expertise or capital for investment, consolidation, defensive or preemptive purposes. Geographic Strategy: The vendor's strategy to direct resources, skills and offerings to meet the specific needs of geographies outside the "home" or native geography, either directly or through partners, channels and subsidiaries as appropriate for that geography and market. Absolute Software has been slow in providing some client management capabilities that organizations are increasingly requiring, such as the availability of a software title database. Relative to other vendors, Absolute Software's customer base is small, and awareness for Absolute Manage is relatively low, particularly for Windows. The vendor also lacks a strong online community and user groups. Accelerite Client Automation, which Accelerite acquired through a licensing agreement with HP, is an enterpriseclass product that offers deep levels of management functionality, scalability and strong capabilities for managing remote locations. An ongoing focus for Accelerite is to provide a unified solution incorporating different management offerings within its expanding portfolio of products. Accelerite's goal with Client Automation is to protect and expand its installed base of large enterprises, while at the same time penetrating the midmarket. This will prove to be extremely challenging, given the vendor's limited sales, marketing and support resources. Client Automation is a good fit for organizations experienced in client management that do not require high levels of service and support. Accelerite Client Automation has a highly scalable underlying architecture that is particularly strong at managing remote locations. Accelerite is one of the few vendors in this Magic Quadrant that can deliver a consistent set of a client management functionality on premises, as a SaaS based cloud offering or through a managed service provider relationship. Accelerite is a small vendor with limited sales and marketing capacity that must quickly grow share in the midmarket, while preserving its enterprise business. The feature set of Accelerite Client Automation is more geared toward larger enterprise requirements, and midsize organizations may not be able to exploit its full capabilities (e.g., scalability and remote office management). BMC Software BMC Software offers one of the broadest portfolios of operations and management tools in the market. BMC Client Management (BCM), its CMT targeted at midsize businesses, is sold mostly as an add on module to other BMC products, most frequently its small and midsize business (SMB) focused IT service management solutions. BCM offers a good set of basic client management functionality, an intuitive and easy to use interface, and strong integration with other BMC Software products. BMC Software is one of the few CMT vendors without a mobile management offering of its own, and invests only minimally in promoting BCM. This raises concerns about the strategic nature of client management as a stand alone business. BCM is a good choice for users of other BMC Software management products, such as the vendor's IT service management offerings, and especially for those looking for tightly integrated solutions. BCM uses a simple user interface, making it accessible to IT staff that lack substantial desktop administration expertise. BCM has tight integration with BMC FootPrints Service Core and BMC Remedyforce Service Desk, at a console, data and process level. The absence of an established mobile management offering product will hinder the vendor's ability to provide a unified endpoint management solution. As a stand alone offering, compared with other products in its portfolio, client management is not highly strategic to the overall success of BMC Software, and receives minimal sales and marketing focus, resulting in low market penetration and a weak community of users. CA Technologies 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= /10
3 CA's Client Automation CMT is noted by its users for its stability and code quality. CA's client management focus in recent years has been on providing management capabilities for desktop virtualization technologies, as well as providing an integrated EMM tool. CA's visibility in this market continues to decline, with few Gartner clients considering Client Automation. Nevertheless, Client Automation is a good fit for organizations looking to manage hosted virtual desktop environments and physical desktops in a single tool, especially for customers of other related CA products, such as IT Asset Manager and Service Desk Manager. Client Automation allows administrators to manage physical and virtual desktops similarly with features such as the ability to maintain application assignments for dynamically assembled desktops for VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop. The product has strong software inventory management, providing multiple ways to identify software, including a unique capability called Intellisigs, which allows administrators to identify software more accurately than heuristics or signature based methods. Relative to other vendors, Client Automation has low visibility in the market, and is usually not considered unless part of a larger CA bundle or as an add on module. Client Automation lacks a strong online community and user groups. Dell Kace The Dell Kace OS deployment (K2000) and life cycle management (K1000) appliances offer a strong breadth of management functionality, highlighted by ease of use and setup. Dell released version 6.3 of K1000 earlier this year, which added several targeted features (such as Chromebook support). The vendor has successfully been leveraging its large, global sales organization to increase exposure of Kace within new and existing opportunities, and is making available a free, scaled down version of the agent for all Dell and non Dell business laptops and PCs. Dell also discontinued the mobile management (K3000) appliance, and is now focused on integrating mobility management into the K1000. Mobility management is an area in which Dell continues to lag behind other management vendors. Kace is a good fit for organizations that want a product that is easy to deploy and easy to use, and it is particularly well suited for midmarket, educational institutions and enterprises that may not have the resources or expertise in client management. The Dell sales force, which is actively promoting Kace and offering access to the technology integrated with other Dell hardware, gives it a unique sales channel with broad and geographically diverse capabilities. Kace appliances are easy to deploy, maintain and upgrade, which are among the major challenges of CMTs in the midmarket. Kace has lagged behind other market leading CMTs in enabling new functionality and capabilities, particularly in addressing the requirements of larger organizations. Kace is now part of Dell's rapidly expanding software portfolio, and must share focus and investment with other high profile, high margin offerings. Heat Software (formerly FrontRange) FrontRange was sold to private equity firm Clearlake Capital in February 2015, where it was combined with Lumension, a security and patch vendor, to create a new entity called Heat Software. Heat Desktop & Server Management (DSM) is an easy to use client management product regularly bundled with other FrontRange solutions. The majority of Heat DSM's revenue is generated by European customers today; Gartner has yet to see broad based adoption of the product in North America or Asia. A goal of joining with Lumension is to allow Heat Software to expand its customer base globally over time. Heat DSM offers a good balance of easy of use, wizard driven functionality for less experienced users, and more advanced functionality, such as scripting, for users more experienced with client management. Heat DSM is a good fit for midsize organizations, especially those looking for a bundled set of management offerings. Package building has long been a differentiator for Heat DSM. Many client management offerings require third party products for advanced application packaging, but DSM includes strong native capabilities to help customers build packages. A combined FrontRange and Lumension will allow Heat Software to improve on patch management and overall security capabilities within Heat DSM. IBM Heat Software's visibility and presence in the CMT space is low. Organizations may have difficulty finding online peer support, as well as administrators and consultants with Heat DSM experience. Heat DSM's console must be enhanced to improve overall performance and breadth of native management functionality. IBM BigFix (formerly IBM Endpoint Manager) excels in patch management, multiplatform support and overall scalability. Organizations also frequently use it to manage servers, particularly midsize 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= /10
4 organizations that prefer a single tool to manage PCs and servers. During the past year, IBM has been heavily focused on more deeply integrating its enterprise mobility solution and lightweight PC management platform, MaaS360, with BigFix, and enhancing its cloud based device management capabilities. BigFix is a good choice for organizations that are heavily focused on security configuration management (including patching), and those that require strong multiplatform server management in addition to client management, or scalability to support tens of thousands of endpoints. It is not as good a choice for organizations that require simple usability or that lack strong management tool resources. The product's endpoint oriented intelligence and control, along with its relay server architecture, results in a relatively small server footprint to support highly distributed environments. IBM BigFix provides comprehensive out of the box configuration policies and templates. Uptake of OS deployment (OSD) remains low, and IBM's track record of supporting it at large scale is unproven. IBM's customers frequently express challenges with support. Client feedback suggests that support for non Windows management functionality is not as strong as support for Windows management functions. Landesk Landesk Management Suite (LDMS) is one of the most complete CMTs in the market, but the additional capabilities can also make it complex to use. To address this challenge, Landesk is incorporating Workspaces into LDMS. Workspaces are redesigned consoles optimized for ease of use and functionality specific to a user role (e.g., IT analyst, service desk analyst, asset manager and security administrator). A main goal is to allow Landesk to more deeply penetrate markets other than enterprise, where it does the majority of business today. Landesk also continues to focus heavily on promoting its Total User Management Suite, which makes up only a small portion of the vendor's sales today; however, momentum for user based management and licensing is growing. LDMS is a good fit for organizations that require multiplatform support, robust management and flexibility to customize management tools. Landesk offers one of the most robust sets of management functionality among all client management vendors, with strong cross device and cross platform support for Windows, OS X and mobile. The LDMS Targeted Multicast with the peer download option enables administrators to distribute applications using a peer to peer model at subnets. Landesk customers have fewer remote package servers than customers using competitive products. LDMS can be complex to use, and generally requires experience with and a strong understanding of client management to fully exploit all of its capabilities. Landesk's EMM capabilities are less mature than its PC management capabilities, and integration with LDMS needs to be tighter. ManageEngine ManageEngine Desktop Central is an easy to use, cost effective client management product aimed primarily at small and midsize organizations that are heavily standardized on Microsoft Windows. The majority of Desktop Central's revenue is generated from subscription licenses delivered to organizations with fewer than 500 users. Desktop Central's functionality is intuitive, offers a wide breadth of basic management capabilities and is one of the most aggressively priced products available in this solution market. ManageEngine made improvements to Desktop Central during the past year, but the product still lacks depth of functionality in several areas (e.g., effectively managing non Windows platforms, security and vulnerability scanning), and does not scale effectively to meet the requirements of large enterprises. ManageEngine is a good fit for small and midsize organizations seeking basic functionality for managing Windows environments at lower price points. Initial setup and configuration of Desktop Central is straightforward. The interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, and it does not require high levels of client management experience. Desktop Central is one of the most aggressively priced products in the client management space. Desktop Central offers basic management functionality, but trails the market in several key areas, including self service, enterprise scalability and OS deployment. ManageEngine is still small and not as well known as many of the leading CMT vendors; as such, it has a limited following and limited online community resources. Matrix42 Matrix42's strategy is to provide workspace management, combining client management, SaaS application provisioning IT service, license management and EMM capabilities (through the recent acquisition of Silverback). Matrix42 has always had a strong focus on emerging and future client management requirements. The vendor's challenge is primarily its lack of a presence outside of Europe, where it still does the vast majority of its business. One of the reasons for acquiring Silverback, located in 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= /10
5 Australia, was to give Matrix42 a foothold in the Australian market and to expand across the Asia/Pacific region. However, given its limited global presence today and the maturity of the client management market, it will be challenging for Matrix42 to grow its client management business outside Europe. Matrix42 Physical is a good choice for European and potentially Australian organizations that manage complex endpoint environments composed of physical PCs, virtual desktops and mobile devices. The vendor provides packaging and scripting capabilities as a cloud service that include more than 1,200 prepackaged software packages. The product has a comprehensive end user self service interface, which is independent of the Matrix42 service desk. OS deployment capabilities need to be extended. Matrix42 Physical does not currently support multicast OS deployment, and reference feedback indicates challenges with driver management in some environments. Mac management capabilities are incomplete, currently lacking OS deployment, software usage and patch management. Microsoft Microsoft continues to maintain the largest market share in the CMT market by a wide margin. Microsoft's licensing strategy of offering System Center Configuration Manager (Configuration Manager) as a part of the Core and Enterprise Client Access Licenses is the main driving force behind this. Microsoft also continues to enable a robust and growing ecosystem of certified third party modules and snap ins, which integrate with the Configuration Manager console, allowing Microsoft to present a more complete set of capabilities in competitive situations. Over the past several months, Microsoft has generated a substantial amount of interest in its Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), due, in large part, to its integration with Configuration Manager. Microsoft also plans to release a major new version of Configuration Manager in the fourth quarter of Configuration Manager is a good choice for organizations with strong client management skills, especially those running predominantly Microsoft software. Configuration Manager's scalability has been proven through many large customers. Microsoft has a large ecosystem of software vendors and service providers that support Configuration Manager, due to its large market share. Novell Support for non Windows PCs is weak. Configuration Manager lacks patch content for most non Microsoft desktop applications. Organizations must patch most non Microsoft applications through traditional software distribution or third party patch management tools. Remote control is frequently supplemented by third party products, as it lacks advanced security and auditing capabilities offered by third party remote control tools. Novell ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM) capabilities are competitive. Its software distribution is strong, offering advanced capabilities for managing application package dependencies and deploying applications to users (rather than merely machines). However, Novell's presence in the CMT market continues to decline. Novell has recently shifted its focus away from selling ZCM as a stand alone tool for client management and is now offering it primarily as part of its ZENworks Suite, which includes asset management, application virtualization, service desk, and security and disk encryption. ZENworks is a good product, and organizations that are experienced and satisfied with it should have no compelling reason to switch. ZENworks allows desktop applications to be managed dynamically. Applications can be launched taking into account user identity, location, time and other factors, without the need to develop scripts or a separate profile management tool. ZCM has comprehensive software distribution capabilities; complex software distribution jobs can be managed more easily in ZCM than in many competitive products, which may require more scripting or manual effort. Novell does not have a strong brand in this market, and we continue to see few organizations considering ZENworks beyond legacy Novell customers upgrading from an old version of ZENworks to ZCM. ZENworks does not provide vulnerability assessment or out of the box security configuration assessment capabilities. Symantec The Symantec Client Management Suite (CMS) is a comprehensive client management product with deep enterprise functionality and flexibility, and a large installed base of customers. However, challenges prior to the October 2013 release of CMS 7.5 have left customers deciding whether to invest further in the CMS platform or to migrate to an alternative product. While the response from customers that have upgraded to CMS 7.5 has generally been positive, others choose to evaluate alternative offerings. This is 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= /10
6 due, in part, to past product, stability and support issues. CMS is a viable client management alternative today, but organizations should work with Symantec to understand its long term focus on and investments in stand alone client and mobile management tools. CMS is a good fit for organizations with strong client management skills looking for advanced management functionality and flexibility to customize. CMS offers great flexibility in managing endpoints; there are many ways to execute the various functions, allowing administrators to tailor the product to processes. Symantec has a large installed base of customers, with one of the largest and most active communities of user groups and online forums. CMS 7.5 can be complex to use and may be challenging for users without strong client management experience to exploit its full capabilities. A weak position in mobile management will make it more challenging for Symantec to succeed with a future unified endpoint management product. Vendors Added and Dropped We review and adjust our inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants and MarketScopes as markets change. As a result of these adjustments, the mix of vendors in any Magic Quadrant or MarketScope may change over time. A vendor's appearance in a Magic Quadrant or MarketScope one year and not the next does not necessarily indicate that we have changed our opinion of that vendor. It may be a reflection of a change in the market and, therefore, changed evaluation criteria, or of a change of focus by that vendor. Added No vendors were added to the Magic Quadrant. Dropped Kaseya was dropped from the Magic Quadrant. Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA) is a broad IT operations management platform targeted primarily at small and midsize managed service providers, as well as serving midsize end user accounts. Earlier this year, Kaseya dropped support for operating system deployment and, as a result, no longer meets the inclusion criteria for this Magic Quadrant. However, it remains a good choice for organizations that do not require operating system deployment functionality, and those that value a single solution for client and mobile management, endpoint security, and service desk through the same console. Other Vendors There are other vendors in the market that Gartner believes provide strong client management capabilities, but that may not be able to meet all of the Magic Quadrant criteria because of segment, product or market focus. Jamf Software is one such vendor. Jamf's Casper Suite client management product is designed specifically for managing Apple Macintosh computers. This sole focus allows the vendor to provide leading functionality specific to managing Mac systems. Jamf may be a good choice for organizations with large populations of Macs or those looking to complement existing capabilities with comprehensive Mac management. Tanium emerged in the last two years, targeting large organizations with globally distributed networks, and challenging many incumbent vendors. Tanium brings real time endpoint visibility and remediation, which has become increasingly important in today's age of targeted attacks. Tanium is a good choice for organizations that require real time endpoint visibility and remediation, and are willing to replace or augment desktop engineering processes and tools, which are usually well entrenched. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria $15 million in annual CMT revenue 1,000 active end user organizations utilizing the CMT 1 million desktops and notebooks actively under management by the CMT Core CMT functionality for Windows PC systems, including: Hardware and software inventory OS deployment Patch management Software distribution 10 new, named customers that have deployed at least 2,500 CMT licenses in the last year At least four new, named customers outside the vendor's primary geography with at least 500 CMT licenses deployed in the last year (in the Americas, EMEA and the Asia/Pacific region) At least four new, named customers in three different vertical markets with at least 1,000 CMT licenses deployed in the last year Evaluation Criteria Ability to Execute 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= /10
7 The Ability to Execute axis measures the CMT provider on the quality and efficacy of the processes, systems, methods and procedures that enable its performance to be competitive, efficient and effective, and to positively impact revenue, retention and reputation. Ultimately, CMT providers are judged on their ability and success in capitalizing on their vision. Product/Service: Core features of client management include: Software distribution Hardware and software inventory, including software usage monitoring OS deployment Patch management Other client management functions, such as remote control, security configuration management and software packaging, are included, but receive less emphasis than the core features listed above. Crossplatform and mobile support, workflow capabilities to automate client management processes, and selfservice capabilities are also included. Product scalability, usability and administration are also evaluated, as they relate to being able to meet buyers' current needs. Overall Viability: This criterion covers the organization's overall financial health, the financial and practical success of the CMT business unit, and the likelihood that the business unit will continue to offer and invest in the CMT, and will advance the organization's portfolio of products. Sales Execution/Pricing: This assesses the capabilities in all sales activities, the success of the organization in achieving sales goals and objectives, and the structure that supports them. The frequency of appearance on CMT buyer shortlists and the structure, competitiveness and approach to pricing are also considered. Market Responsiveness/Record: This criterion covers the execution in delivering CMTs and updates consistently and in a timely fashion, the agility to quickly meet new market demands and requirements, and how well the vendor receives and utilizes customer feedback. Marketing Execution: This assesses the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and programs for the CMT to influence the market; promote the company, brand and business; increase awareness of the CMT; and establish a positive identification with the product/brand and organization in the minds of buyers and partners. Customer Experience: This criterion covers the relationships, products and programs that enable clients to be successful with the use of the CMT; customer feedback regarding experience working with the vendor, plans to continue working with the vendor, availability and vibrancy of user communities and online forums, general online presence of the vendor, and overall reputation. Operations: This assesses the ability of the organization to meet its goals and commitments. Factors include the quality of the organizational structure dedicated to the CMT, including skills, experiences, programs, systems and other vehicles that enable the organization to operate effectively and efficiently on an ongoing basis. Table 1. Ability to Execute Evaluation Criteria Evaluation Criteria Weighting Product/Service Overall Viability Sales Execution/Pricing Market Responsiveness/Record Marketing Execution Customer Experience Operations Source: Gartner (June 2015) Low Completeness of Vision The Completeness of Vision axis evaluates CMT providers on their ability to convincingly articulate logical statements about current and future market direction, innovation, customer needs, and competitive forces, as well as how well they map to Gartner positions. Completeness of Vision provides an aggregate measure of the vendors' likelihood of future success in the CMT market. Market Understanding: This criterion covers the ability of the vendor to understand the wants and needs of CMT buyers, and to translate those into their products and services. Vendors that show the highest degree of vision listen to and understand buyers' wants and needs, and have demonstrated timely inclusion of these capabilities into their endpoint management roadmap. Marketing Strategy: This assesses the overall marketing vision for the vendor's CMT, including messaging, positioning, target markets, portfolio management and roadmap for endpoint management convergence, and how it is communicated throughout the organization and externalized online, through 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= /10
8 advertising, customer programs and positioning statements. Sales Strategy: This criterion covers the strategy for selling products that optimizes routes to market (e.g., direct versus indirect sales, end user versus service provider), the strength and bundling of additional offerings (e.g., endpoint security, service desk, asset management), and the pricing and delivery models and how they map to customer requirements. Offering (Product) Strategy: This assesses the approach to product development and delivery that emphasizes differentiation, functionality, methodology and feature set as they map to current and future requirements. Including, but not limited to, mobile device management, unified endpoint management, self service capabilities, Mac management, server management, virtualization support, integration and security. Business Model: This criterion covers the strategic nature of the vendor's CMT business, how important it is to the vendor's overall success, and whether its CMT business is structured, staffed and funded adequately to succeed. Geographic Strategy: This assesses the vendor's strategy to direct CMT resources, skills and offerings to meet the specific needs of geographies outside the "home" or native geography, either directly or through partners, channels and subsidiaries, as appropriate for that geography and market. Table 2. Completeness of Vision Evaluation Criteria Evaluation Criteria Weighting Market Understanding Marketing Strategy Sales Strategy Offering (Product) Strategy Business Model Vertical/Industry Strategy Innovation Geographic Strategy Source: Gartner (June 2015) No Rating Low Quadrant Descriptions Leaders Positioning in the Leaders quadrant is the result of successfully addressing the Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute criteria. These vendors have succeeded in all the following areas: They understand future organizational demands for client and user management. They have the ability to meet a diverse set of organizational requirements, especially those of large and mature enterprises. There is consistent positive feedback from clients regarding the value of their products and the overall service and support experiences. They have sustainable market share and financial health. They demonstrate ongoing visibility and deal success in the client management market (Gartner tracks how often vendors are being considered by organizations as a measure of visibility). They have the ability to service global clients, or have demonstrated the ability to deliver and support solutions to customers in North America, Europe and Asia. The vendors in the Leaders quadrant have unique characteristics that position them favorably for future market success. Challengers Challengers are defined by keen capabilities related to the Ability to Execute criteria; however, when compared with competitors, they lag behind in delivering new and evolving capabilities, they are slow to market with new functionality or lack complete functionality, or they have comparatively few visionary features, particularly around emerging requirements to manage beyond traditional Windows PCs. This, along with the ability to support new management paradigms, is viewed as necessary to shape the future of the market. Their ability to execute will be proved by solid market share and overall strong functionality. These capabilities are bolstered by overall industry leading fiscal health and broad geographic presence. Visionaries Visionaries are defined by keen capabilities related to the Completeness of Vision criteria. Visionaries have scores that reflect feature complete products, and show technology leadership in providing differentiated or unique management functions that users have begun requesting, or that will have an impact during the next few years. A Visionary has a strong vision for unified endpoint management and may have particular strengths in certain emerging areas, but may lack a fully mature life cycle management solution, global market presence, brand recognition and/or large enterprise capabilities. 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= /10
9 Niche Players Niche Players can be good choices. They may have strengths in particular areas, but don't have the resources to invest in all the requirements we evaluate for the Completeness of Vision criteria or have chosen to narrow the scope of their offering to better serve core constituencies. Organizations looking for products with specific strengths, or looking for only a subset of capabilities, may find that Niche Players offer sufficient capabilities and support. Niche Players often target specific segments or geographies, are new to the market, or sell their CMTs into their own installed base, rather than consistently as standalone solutions. Context CMTs perform the same set of core functions inventory, OS deployment and patch management software distribution. The right tool for any organization depends on a large number of factors, including, but not limited to: Skills level and number of IT staff Scalability and architecture Ease of use Cost to purchase and operate Support for non Windows PCs (e.g., Mac, virtual machines, servers) Integration with EMM products Integration and inclusion with other IT management tools (e.g., service desk) Remote office or home user management requirements Endpoint security requirements Cloud delivery options Organizations should not merely choose from vendors in the Leaders quadrant; they should create a list of criteria that describes their needs, and select from vendors that best meet those requirements. Organizations should use a vendor that can meet their specific needs for at least the next three years. Strong focus should be placed on skills, training, process and proper product implementation, because these factors will influence an organization's product experience more than the specific functional capabilities. Market Overview CMTs are widely used in both midsize and large enterprises, although there is great variability in the extent to which their capabilities are being utilized. For many organizations, they remain the primary means to reduce cost of ownership, improve user productivity, increase IT efficiency and help enable a secure client computing environment. Despite being a highly mature technology market, changes in the mobile and endpoint computing landscape are forcing CMT vendors to continually innovate and evolve their products to address new requirements. A new generation of user requires IT to deliver and manage services in new ways. Bring your own device (BYOD), mobility, user personal cloud and digital workplace programs continue to grow in popularity, and are forcing CMTs to evolve to support these initiatives. CMTs continue to improve in performing core management tasks, while new capabilities are being added to extend their usefulness in supporting a more diverse set of management requirements. Major areas of vendor focus and product enhancement include: Self service The ability of CMTs to deliver self service capabilities continues to grow in importance as organizations look to enhance the management experience for the user, improve the efficiency with which software and services are delivered, increase user productivity and satisfaction, and lower total cost of ownership. Most CMTs offer some form of basic self service capabilities, but only a handful provide workflow and automation capabilities out of the box most require additional modules or service desk tools. Self service capabilities are increasingly becoming a leading area of differentiation. Patch management Security and compliance remains a critical focus for most organizations, increasing the need for strong patch management. All CMTs provide patch management capabilities, but there is great variability from one tool to another. Some offer only basic functionality for patching the operating system, while others are more sophisticated in both the breadth of operating systems and applications that they patch, as well as the level of functionality, automation and reporting they provide. Patching is commonly the initial use case for CMTs, and often the primary justification for selecting one tool over another. Unified endpoint management Organizations are struggling to manage a growing number of smartphones, tablets and BYOD devices connecting to their networks. Even though CMTs are beginning to offer basic functionality to manage these devices, most organizations continue to utilize separate EMM products, often from different vendors. We are toward approaching the beginning of Wave 2 of unified endpoint management (see "Managing PCs, Smartphones and Tablets and the Future Ahead"), where a single product initially using separate processes will manage both traditional clients and mobile devices. As such, it is critical that organizations understand their CMT vendor's ability to manage mobile devices today and their plans for convergence. Security and compliance Rapidly changing security and compliance requirements being put in place by organizations are forcing CMTs to continually evolve their capabilities beyond just patch management. IT managers are increasingly looking for CMTs to help in automating the creation and enforcement of security standards on policies. This includes the use of security templates and compliance baselines, proactive notification of noncompliance and threats, and automatic remediation and advanced reporting of systems out of compliance. Security and compliance 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= /10
10 enhancements will continue to be a major area of focus of innovation for all CMT vendors. The way CMTs are sold varies across vendors. Here's how and why: Client management is sometimes sold as an add on module to another more strategic product (e.g., service desk). In this case, the CMT may not be as feature rich as other stand alone offerings in the market, but it does provide tight integration into other products in the vendor's portfolio. Client management is not usually strategic to the vendor's success. Client management functionality may also be delivered as part of a bundled offering where it acts as core function within a larger overall management suite. These offerings are typically targeted at the midmarket and designed for ease of use. Client management functionality is optimized to work specifically with other components of the same suite. Most often, CMTs are sold as stand alone offerings and are a primary focus and investment area of the vendor, and strategic to its overall success. CMTs that are sold stand alone are generally the most robust in breadth and depth of functionality, and provide strong integration capabilities with other products in the market. Understanding why a vendor competes in the market provides insight into the strategic nature of CMTs within a broader product set, the level of potential investments the vendor will make and how best to approach negotiations with that vendor. Vendors will claim to be able to address all segments of the market, but that is not the case. CMTs are almost always designed and optimized for a specific set of user requirements. There are always trade offs that need to be made when designing a product or adding new features that will help in one segment, but negatively impact another. For example, providing deep functionality to manage a large number of devices an enterprise requirement almost always comes at the expense of ease of use an SMB requirement. No CMT today can meet the general user requirements of all organizations. Service and support, presales and postsales activities, and go to market should also be aligned with the target market of the product. An enterprise class product delivered from a vendor with SMB capabilities, or vice versa, usually results in misaligned expectations and a poor overall experience. Client management is a mature market. Switching CMT vendors occurs rather infrequently, especially at large enterprises. This is because there are usually limited meaningful technical benefits in doing so, switching can be a significant effort and the migrations can be time consuming. This is particularly true where processes have been developed around specific tools. The main reasons we find organizations moving from one vendor to another are because of dissatisfaction with the incumbent provider or to get better pricing. In the midmarket, switching vendors is more common and there are still many organizations with no CMTs in place, which makes it a focus area for all vendors and a highly competitive market Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. or its affiliates. This publication may not be reproduced or distributed in any form without Gartner s prior written permission. If you are authorized to access this publication, your use of it is subject to the Usage Guidelines for Gartner Services posted on gartner.com. The information contained in this publication has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. Gartner disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such information and shall have no liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in such information. This publication consists of the opinions of Gartner s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. The opinions expressed herein are subject to change without notice. Although Gartner research may include a discussion of related legal issues, Gartner does not provide legal advice or services and its research should not be construed or used as such. Gartner is a public company, and its shareholders may include firms and funds that have financial interests in entities covered in Gartner research. Gartner s Board of Directors may include senior managers of these firms or funds. Gartner research is produced independently by its research organization without input or influence from these firms, funds or their managers. For further information on the independence and integrity of Gartner research, see Guiding Principles on Independence and Objectivity. About Gartner Careers Newsroom Policies Site Index IT Glossary Contact Gartner 2HNAMUD&ct=150611&st=sb&aliId= /10
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