Last week OPNET was placed in the "Leaders" quadrant of the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring. Gartner evaluated 29 vendors in this report. To all of our clients and staff who helped us achieve this position: thank you!
In case it is helpful for you, below I provide Gartner's criteria below for evaluating vendors and "Leaders" in this new report, in their own words. Enjoy!
Leaders
Six aspects characterize Leaders:
- Competitive offerings related to all five dimensions of APM and best-of-breed functionality in three or more of the dimensions;
- Credibility in the monitoring of application domains assembled from heterogeneous sources;
- Effective integration across four or more of the dimensions;
- The ability to deliver and support APM on a global basis;
- A consistent track record of innovation; and
- A vision that places APM at the heart of operations and application management.
Vendors eligible for inclusion in this research meet the following criteria:
- Gartner client inquiry data confirms that the product is of interest to Gartner clients in enterprise environments by making their product selection shortlists.
- The vendor should have at least 50 customers who use its APM products actively in the production environment for at least two out of the four following functionalities: end user experience monitoring, application component discovery and modeling, deep monitoring of application components, and transaction flow monitoring.
- The vendor’s APM product portfolio should be capable of at least two of the following functions: end user experience monitoring; application component discovery modeling; in depth monitoring of key application components (e.g., J2EE, Oracle DBMS); transaction flow monitoring.
- The vendor must have a global sales presence.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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