Gartner MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository

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Gartner MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository

Gartner have released a new Market Scope for ITAM repositories.

It is available to read here courtesy of CA.

Alongside the usual rating of vendors is a very good snapshot of the ITAM marketplace.

They provide an insightful summary of the current trends and market drivers and a useful clarification on ITAM’s relationship with Service Management, CMDB and Business Service Management.

More details about all of these vendors can be found in The ITAM Review Vendor Directory.

Highlights

• “IT Asset Management Tools are continuing to show strong market growth, and adoption is on the upswing”
• “ITIL, CMDB and vendor product bundling has led to confusion about the role of ITAM repositories in the marketplace”
• Organisations ITAM toolset purchasing decisions are being influenced by vendor’s broader service desk and lifecycle management options
• ITAM is becoming a priority in small organisations

Gartner MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository (April 2010)

• Strong Positive – CA, HP
• Positive – BMC Software (Remedy), IBM
• Promising – Axios Systems, LANDesk, Provance Technologies, PS’Soft, Symantec Altiris, USU
• Caution – Eracent

Additional tools mentioned: Flexera Software, Insight Solutions and OpenIT.

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