Jump-Start the Enterprise Journey to the Cloud

Includes the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant

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Executive Summary

In the pre-1880 era onsite power generation was the norm for factories. When the central power stations
were built, these factories outsourced their power generation. Cloud infrastructure presents a similar
opportunity for organizations wishing to outsource their IT infrastructure. Cloud is to IT, as central power
stations were to industries.

Cloud Adoption is inevitable.

This is evident from recent examples of
diverse companies – Netflix, Intuit, and
According to
Juniper – moving almost 100% of their IT
Gartner, “the cloud
infrastructure into the cloud.
is a technology
discontinuity that,
The key reasons for cloud adoption,
within the next 10 contrary to common understanding,
years, is likely to have been better performance, improved
dramatically change service delivery, improved agility, and
IT organizational easier administration. Saving money
missions, structures, was merely a by-product!
roles, skills and
operations. To put Data is at the core of a modern
it another way, the organization’s competitive advantage,
cloud will change and CIOS are expected to enable
IT as nothing before their global workforce with agility,
it has.” performance, tools, and analytics.

According to a 2014 survey

of CIOs conducted by Gartner,
cost savings account for
only 14% of the reasons for
organizations’ use of the
public cloud.

Gartner recommends enterprises “invest in private cloud not only to deliver a rapid return on investment,
but also to enable sourcing model and architectural evolution over time.”

Source: Solix
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Jump-Start the Enterprise Journey to the Cloud

A typical enterprise has 3 types of data – production data, legacy data, and test data. This data is growing
at an alarming rate, with material impacts on business performance. Data growth management is one of
the top problems faced by Enterprise IT teams.

However, 60%-80% of this enterprise data is either inactive, static, or within legacy applications. This
provides enterprises an excellent opportunity to start their journey to the cloud with three simple steps:

According to
Gartner, data
growth is the No. 1
infrastructure
challenge for data
centers.

Step 1: Migrate Legacy Applications into the Cloud

Experts estimate that up to 40% of applications are candidates for retirement. Migrating these legacy
applications to the cloud can improve IT efficiency and reduce cost.

FIGURE 1 Migrate Legacy Applications into the Cloud

Source: Solix

As for the fear factor of data security, Gartner Research says, “to date, there have been
very few security breaches in the public cloud — most breaches continue to involve
on-premises data center environments. Most cloud providers invest significantly in
security technology and personnel and realize that their business would be at risk
without doing so.”
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Step 2: Use Cloud Infrastructure for Sandboxing and Testing

Leverage cloud infrastructure for sandboxing, application development, testing, and quality assurance.
Application load peaks during testing and upgrades, then falls dramatically. Dynamic scaling capabilities
of the cloud infrastructure provides an optimal way to manage peak loads without incurring huge capital
expense for temporary infrastructure. Use data subsetting and data masking solutions to create secure
subsets of production data that can be moved into the public/private cloud.

FIGURE 2 Use Cloud Infrastructure for Sandboxing and Testing

Source: Solix

To support application testing and development, Gartner says, “adopt a bimodal IT sourcing
strategy for cloud IaaS. Ensure that you meet the needs of developers and other technical
end users who consume cloud IaaS, not just the needs of the infrastructure and operations
organization.”

Step 3: Archive Inactive Data from Production Applications before Moving them
into the Cloud
According to most analysts, about 80% of data within production applications is inactive. Archive this inactive
data from production applications to improve their performance and user experience; move these 80% leaner
applications into the cloud. Furthermore, use the cloud infrastructure to manage the archived data.

FIGURE 3 Archive Inactive Data from Product Applications into the Cloud

Source: Solix

Source: Solix 
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Starting the Cloud Journey with the Solix Big

Data Suite

The Solix Big Data Suite is a cloud-ready Enterprise Archiving platform built on Apache Hadoop.
Solix is certified on Cloudera CDH and Hortonworks and provides an out-of-the-box solution to
accelerate enterprise archiving in to the cloud.

Currently, Solix supports Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure as public cloud providers, but the solution can
be deployed on any other vendor’s cloud infrastructure – Google, Rackspace, Dimension Data, etc.

The Solix Big Data Suite provides an extensive ILM framework to create a unified repository to capture all
enterprise data and optimally organize it for analytics tools offered through the Solix App Store.
Recent Gartner
The suite is highly scalable, with an extensible connector framework to ingest all enterprise data. The research states that
integrated suite allows seamless archiving, retirement, and flexible extract transform load (ETL) capabilities by 2017 enterprise
to improve the speed of deployment, decrease the cost, and optimize infrastructure. Solix also supports archiving will
on-premise and cloud-based deployment on a variety of Hadoop distributions. represent 25% of
the information
The Solix Big Data Suite harnesses the capabilities of Hadoop to create a comprehensive and efficient governance efforts
platform that provides unified and cost-effective ILM and BI infrastructures for all data, requiring smaller in enterprises.
teams with fewer IT skills, while allowing quicker rollouts and faster results. By 2016, 75%
of enterprise
The Solix Big Data Suite includes: archiving solutions
will incorporate
• Solix Enterprise Archiving to support for big data
improve enterprise application analytics.
performance and reduce
infrastructure costs. Enterprise
application data is first moved
and then purged from its source
location according to ILM
policies to ensure governance,
risk, and compliance objectives
are met.

• The Solix Enterprise Data Lake

reduces the complexity and
processing burden of staging
enterprise data warehouse (EDW)
and analytics applications and
provides highly efficient, low-
cost bulk storage of enterprise
data for later use when it is
needed. The Solix Data Lake
provides a copy of production
data and stores it “as is” in bulk
for later use.

• The Solix App Store offers pre-

integrated analytics tools for Source: Solix
data within Enterprise Archiving
and the Enterprise Data Lake.
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The Top Benefits of Using the Solix Big Data Suite for Archiving in the Cloud

1. Application and Data Center Consolidation

Gartner analysts, The Solix Big Data Suite supports archiving of structured and unstructured data
Merv Adrian and applications into a single scalable repository, consolidating all legacy applications and
Nick Heudecker, inactive data. Solix is built on an extensible platform that will continue to support current
recommend CIOs and future enterprise data sources.
“consider cloud
deployment to
minimize the cost 2. Support the Mobile Workforce
of acquisition
and operations The Solix cloud platform seamlessly supports data access from any device, anywhere in
(especially for test the world, by any authorized user on any platform.
and development)
and to support
elastic scalability
3. Scale Up for Peak Performance
for unpredictable The Solix cloud platform provides dynamic scaling capabilities to support peak loads
and infrequent use without any service deterioration. Additionally, archiving inactive data from production
cases.” servers improves the performance of business applications.

4. Data Security and Governance

Solix provides a comprehensive ILM Framework for Governance – Retention
Management, eDiscovery, and Legal Hold.

5. Analytics and Intelligence

Built on Apache Hadoop and Spark, Solix provides several integrations with BI and
Analytics tools.

6. Sandboxing and Testing

Solix provides a comprehensive suite of tools for sandboxing and testing, such as
subsetting, data masking, and test data management.

7. Lower the Total Cost of Ownership

With the cloud infrastructure organizations can eliminate data center overheads such as
hardware, power, cooling, backups, disaster recovery, etc. This significantly decreases the
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

8. OPEX vs. CAPEX

With the cloud based model, enterprises can leverage subscription pricing – freeing up
capital for other immediate business needs.
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Conclusion
Cloud services are already
playing a major role in IT. If
your company is not using them
today, it will be tomorrow.

• Cloud adoption is
inevitable

• 60%-80% of inactive
enterprise data provides a
low-risk, high-value asset
to migrate to the Cloud

• Solix Big Data Suite is

the perfect platform to
kick start the enterprise Source: Solix
journey in the cloud

Our advice to the CIO is to explore enterprise archiving as the first step in this journey to the
cloud. This first step gives IT organizations experience working with a cloud service provider, making the
cloud service a natural extension of existing operations.

Governance Cash Flow Analytics Marketing Analytics Security Analytics Sales Analytics Search / Reporting

Solix Big Data Suite

Enterprise
Data Lake
Structured Data Enterprise Unstructured Data
Oracle E-Business Suite Archive Log Files
PeopleSoft SharePoint
Siebel File Servers
JD Edwards Web Clicks
SAP Machine logs
BaaN Videos
Custom Apps IoT

Source: Solix

Source: Solix
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Solving the Data Growth Crisis with Apache Hadoop

Source: Solix
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From the Gartner Files:

Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and

Application Retirement
Structured data archiving technologies help IT • Governance — The technology preserves data
leaders retire legacy applications, reduce capital for compliance when retiring applications.
and operating expenses, and meet governance Structured data is often transactional and
and compliance requirements. We evaluate related to financial accounts or back-office
vendors offering products and services that provide functions (for example, HR, patient enrollment
archiving for databases and data from enterprise in healthcare and other use cases that
applications. might be regulated) that require information
governance, control and security, along
Strategic Planning Assumptions with the ability to respond to related events
such as audits, litigation and investigation.
By 2017, archiving in support of big data analytics These and other requirements, such as
will surpass archiving for compliance as the maintaining information context, can prevent
primary use case for structured data archiving. organizations from moving data to lower-cost
tiers of storage, or adopting other do-it-
By 2016, 75% of structured data archiving yourself approaches.
applications will incorporate support for big data
analytics. • Cost optimization — Structured data archiving
and application retirement can result in
Market Definition/Description significant ROI. Structured data in legacy
systems, ERP and databases accumulates over
Structured data archiving is the ability to index, years — and, in some cases, over decades —
migrate and protect application data in secondary driving up operational and capital expenses.
databases or flat files typically located on lower-
cost storage for policy-based retention. It makes • Data scalability — The technology can
data available in context and protects it in the manage large volumes of nontraditional
event of litigation or an audit. data resulting from newer applications
that can generate billions of small objects.
Structured data archiving addresses: Scalability to petabytes of capacity is
required in these cases.
• Storage optimization — It can reduce the
volume of data in production and maintain The desire to leverage archives as a secondary
seamless data access. The benefits of using data store for big data analytics is driving the
this technology include reduced capital and growth of the structured data archiving market.
operating expenditures, improved information Newer market participants are offering alternate
governance, improved recoverability, lower risk ways for managing archived data that involve
of regulatory compliance violations, and access virtual copies of databases, extreme compression
to secondary data for reporting and analysis. and native SQL access.
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FIGURE 1 Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement

Source: Gartner (June 2015)

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Vendor Strengths and Cautions Data Migration

Actifio Data Migration sells its JiVS product primarily
for SAP archiving and retirement, but also,
Actifio provides Actifio Copy Data Services (CDS)
increasingly, for other business systems such as
and Actifio Sky for the copy data management and
JD Edwards and Oracle E-Business Suite. JiVS is
retention of structured and unstructured data. CDS
a platform approach, with support for capabilities
is a physical appliance, and Sky is a virtual one.
like data masking and retention management
Both work through copy data management, using
through configuration. Application retirement
a single "golden image" (copy) of production data,
is a key use case for JiVS, and the vendor is
capturing it at block level and placing it in a separate
experienced with legacy systems like Baan and
storage system, from which it can generate multiple
IBM Domino. Cloud is an area of focus for Data
virtual copies for different use cases including
Migration, and is available with Data Migration
archiving. The golden image is frequently updated
providing its own cloud for midsize enterprises
on an incremental forever basis via change block
and value-added resellers (VARs), like T-Systems,
tracking and — together with compression and global
offering branded cloud solutions for multinational
deduplication image size for long-term retention
enterprises. Pricing is flexible, based on three
— is typically much smaller than the production
models: per application plus database volume;
environment. Currently, Actifio does not natively
per defined scope of applications to retire; or per
provide granular search capabilities, such as Boolean
terabyte for retirement programs managed with
or faceted search, and cannot purge data selectively
JiVS. Data Migration is positioned for enterprises
from the production source. CDS and Sky offer data
looking to retire multiple applications including
masking through third-party software. Pricing is based
SAP. Moving forward, the vendor looks to enhance
on ingested data capacity.
its capabilities around preconfigured reports that
Actifio is best-used for database archiving, when will assist in reducing deployment time in JD
retention of older Microsoft SQL and Oracle Edwards, Oracle E-Business Suite, Baan and other
environments is required, often in conjunction with legacy application environments.
test/development use cases. Looking ahead, Actifio
Strengths
plans to offer better search capabilities and support
for larger-scale network-attached storage (NAS)
• Data Migration has improved its
environments.
implementation and deployment times in large
global enterprises.
Strengths
• Data Migration supports a variety of application
• Actifio delivers outstanding customer support.
environments.
• Actifio’s technology can be applied to a number
of different use cases in addition to archiving, • Data Migration is experienced at delivering
including data protection and test/development. cloud deployment models for SAP and other
• Actifio has flexible support for the cloud, with both application retirement use cases.
public cloud and SaaS offerings through partners.
Cautions
Cautions
• Data Migration is primarily focused on
• Actifio lacks fundamental capabilities like legal retirement scenarios and less on active
hold or search. archiving; for example, there isn't currently
support for Hana.
• The vendor is largely unproven in structured data
archiving or application retirement, with a small • Data Migration lacks support for Hadoop.
number of customers in these areas.
• Actifio customers had the largest project costs of • Support for North America is currently indirect
vendors surveyed in this year's Magic Quadrant, via a partner.
but the product's usage is rarely limited to
structured data archiving; and the costs typically
encompass other use cases, such as test/
development and/or data protection.
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DataVard DCSoftware
DataVard offers OutBoard for SAP archiving. The DCSoftware's Arctools focuses primarily on
vendor has been steadily growing its archiving JD Edwards archiving through the availability
installed base as an outgrowth of its SAP of dozens of predefined purge modules for JD
performance analysis capabilities, its primary Edwards. Arctools supports AS/400 (aka IBM i),
area of focus. OutBoard includes the Erna module, Oracle and SQL Server databases; however, the
which operates as a kind of housekeeper, deleting AS/400 product has a different codebase than
unneeded information and improving system the Oracle and SQL Server products. Its archiving
performance. DataVard is also a co-developer of method is straightforward, consisting of copying
SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management or moving data from a table in the live system
(ILM) with a focus on database connectivity, and inserting into the same table in the archive.
and improving document and digital imaging Arctools provides the ability to run reports from
processing. In addition to support for SAP Business native applications for both the live system data
Warehouse (BW) and ERP archiving, DataVard and the archive data with little or no modification.
has a growing number of customers for SAP Usually sold as an on-premises solution, Arctools
Hana, and offers a wide range of storage options does have a subscription model that can be
including Sybase IQ, Apache Hadoop, any certified purchased through a customer's service provider of
SAP database and file, and Amazon cloud-based choice.
storage.
Arctools is a solid choice for JD Edwards archiving,
DataVard is best-used in BW archiving scenarios and has several hundred customers archiving from
and production SAP environments, where that platform. Arctools has recently introduced a
containing costs but making data readily available product for Oracle E-Business Suite, but it is still in
(such as in Hadoop-based data lakes) is required. beta as of the publishing of this report.
Moving forward, DataVard looks to expand
capabilities in areas such as application retirement, Strengths
and grow its global presence.
• Arctools has deep knowledge of JD Edwards'
Strengths systems.

• DataVard provides a more open and modern • The product is easy to use, even with limited
approach to SAP with extensive infrastructure knowledge of the system or the archive.
support.
• Data integrity validation options before, during
• OutBoard is priced favorably in a market and after moving data to the archive are robust.
where SAP archiving tends to be prohibitively
expensive. Cautions

• DataVard provides related services in SAP • Arctools does not have granular retention
management, and has strong SAP domain management capabilities.
expertise.
• Arctools does not support data masking.
Cautions
• Arctools is for active archiving use cases only,
• DataVard has no demonstrated SAP application not for application retirement.
retirement customers, despite being a co-
development partner with SAP on the SAP Delphix
NetWeaver ILM product. Delivered as a software appliance, Delphix's
primary use case is focused on testing and
• DataVard has a small number of archiving development through providing virtualized images
customers. of the database. Delphix Live Archive provides
application archiving by creating a virtualized
• The vendor is only SAP-focused, and not image of the entire stack that can be mounted
suitable for other application environments at a future date when access is required. Much
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of Delphix's archiving business is driven through be used for database table and data, file and
application migration to the cloud, as creating an collaborative application (for example, IBM Notes,
archive image ensures data integrity if needed SharePoint or EMC Documentum) archiving and
during the process and allows for retention decommissioning. Various content and platform
of compliance data that does not need to be connectors are available directly from EMC or via
migrated to the cloud application. In 2014, Delphix partners. Data is stored in a unified repository in
added vFiles, which can archive files and also an open format using XML, and all content stored
archive flat files created from an archived virtual can be accessed via granular full text searches,
machine (VM) image. Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)-supported
business applications or, in some cases, native
In the case of archiving, Delphix is well-suited for applications via partners. The latest version of
shorter-term archive scenarios where licenses for InfoArchive is tightly integrated with EMC's
the original database and application are readily Isilon storage platform (including storage-level
available. In the future, Delphix will consolidate retention using Isilon SmartLock and support
multiple data warehouse schemas into a single for Hadoop Distributed File System [HDFS]), as
dataset that can be queried as a single tablespace. well as with its EMC ViPR and Elastic Cloud
Expect more cloud options (namely with CSC) Storage (ECS) platforms (ensuring that storage
in 2015, in addition to existing IBM, AWS and provisioned by these applications will be supported
VMware cloud support. by InfoArchive). In addition to on-premises
deployments, InfoArchive can be run as a service
Strengths using EMC's hosted Managed Services OnDemand
offering. EMC also offers Documentum Archive
• Delphix's TimeFlow feature allows the archived Services for SAP with support for SAP ILM.
VM to be rolled back to any point and time.
EMC has demonstrated an ability to support use
• Fully integrated data masking allows archive cases where unstructured/structured requirements
sets to be used for analysis and test/ converge. Buyers should consider EMC at a more
development. granular level if the organization has a need for
a unified repository supporting multiple data
• Delphix instances can be spun up in a matter of types from multiple applications, and has strong
minutes with compression reaching as much as retention management requirements.
20-to-1 and even 40-to-1.
Strengths
Cautions
• Tight integration with EMC Centera, Isilon,
• Delphix requires the database and application ViPR and ECS gives EMC customers "one-stop
licenses to be available once the virtualized image shopping" for archival and decommissioning
is mounted in order to access or report on the data. solutions offering strong compliance
capabilities.
• Delphix is not suited as a long-term archive. If
used as a long-term archive, the Delphix VM • InfoArchive delivers ease of access to a unified
instance needs to be converted as a flat file for repository supporting multiple content types
later access. (including structured and unstructured data).
• Delphix operates at the block level versus the • Some vertically focused solutions are available
database schema level, therefore, archive can only (for example, EMC Clinical Archiving), and
be per database and not at more granular level, this, combined with EMC's strong professional
such as at a table level. services, contribute to high customer
satisfaction in these areas.
EMC
EMC InfoArchive is EMC's solution for structured Cautions
data archiving and application retirement,
which it offers stand-alone or with a number • InfoArchive's customer base remains relatively
of complementary products. The product can small, and some customers have faced lengthy
deployment cycles.
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• Archive Services for SAP is part of EMC Cautions

Documentum and is not tightly integrated with
InfoArchive. • Structured data archiving knowledge and skill
sets are relatively narrow within HP.
• A reliance on partners in some cases for
connector technology means that sales and • HP's customer base comprises primarily Oracle
deployment can be complex. E-Business systems users. Buyers should test
HP's domain expertise in other application
HP environments.
HP offers HP Structured Data Manager for database
archiving and application retirement. HP Structured • HP Structured Data Manager does not provide
Data Manager supports a broader variety of automated data life cycle management/tiering
applications like Oracle E-Business systems and for storage.
PeopleSoft, and underlying databases, including
Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2. Database-to-
IBM
database and database-to-file archiving are both IBM InfoSphere Optim has a significant lead
supported, and the product is integrated with HP in market share for database and application
Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), enabling archiving/retirement. IBM utilizes highly
search and retrieval across production and archive compressed, immutable binary files (Optim File
databases. Data masking is provided natively. On- Format, CSV or XML) for archiving. Optim provides
premises, private, hybrid and public cloud (such as a significant assembly of application sources such
HP Cloud Services) implementations are supported. as Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel,
Apache Hadoop (HDFS) is supported as an archive JD Edwards, Baan and SAP, along with IBM DB2,
target. The product is integrated with HP Records Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server at the database
Manager for records management. SAP archiving level. In the spirit of supporting internal systems,
is supported via SAP ArchiveLink. HP is continuing Optim also supports direct archiving from PureData
to make significant investments to regain market and ships with IBM HDFS. IBM has broad support
share in database archiving and application for retention and compliance through policy
retirement. management, legal hold and discovery.

HP Structured Data Manager is best-suited IBM InfoSphere Optim is on most RFIs for medium
for enterprises seeking database archiving or to large organizational archiving and application
application retirement in Oracle environments. HP retirement initiatives. Expect IBM to continue
has recently partnered with Attunity to extract SAP to refine the user interface in 2015. In addition,
data in an open format and incorporate it with any product initiative and marketing messages will be
other content type managed by HP Structured Data aimed more to the business users going forward.
Manager. IBM is a market leader for Hadoop as an archiving
platform — assume more offerings in this area
Strengths going forward.

• Pricing is a positive for HP, with customers Strengths

charged per source database instance
(regardless of data volumes). This enables HP • Optim is a proven archiving solution for large-
to scale down and enable prospects that either scale environments.
don't have a large data footprint or wish to start
small. • As part of IBM's Information Lifecycle
Management (ILM) strategy, Optim offers
• HP Structured Data Manager has good retention strong business rule capabilities and policy
management capabilities and the ability to management.
store archived data in HP Records Manager.
• Optim offers tight integration with the rest of
• HP Structured Data Manager is a feature-rich the IBM Information Management Systems,
product with support for big data analytics including InfoSphere products such as
through integration with HP Vertica, as well as Guardium, FileNet and Atlas.
data masking with multiple repository options.
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Cautions also be deployed as a customer-managed service

via public cloud storage, such as Amazon Simple
• Although IBM continually works on Storage Service (S3). On 7 April 2015, Informatica
improvement of user interface and report announced plans to be acquired by Permira Funds
viewing, many users find them difficult to work and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
with and cite them as being antiquated. The deal is pending shareholder and regulatory
approvals, scheduled to close in 2Q15 or 3Q15.
• Pricing and licensing continue to be hurdles for Informatica has told customers and partners that
customers, including pricing based on ingestion its commitment to delivering on its roadmap
instead of final storage. remains unchanged.

• IBM is focused on the technologies involving Strengths

ingestion of data into the archive, and less
on the business value of retrieving data and • Informatica's deep data integration heritage
providing analytics. allows it to leverage highly optimized
connectivity for archiving use cases.
Informatica
Informatica offers Informatica Data Archive, • Informatica has a strong vision with a targeted
which supports a wide array of applications and and focused roadmap, and has delivered on
underlying databases resident on distributed its commitments in the past. The company
systems or mainframe platforms. The product addresses a large number of use cases
also supports archiving from Apache Hadoop, including retirement, compliance, performance
IBM PureData System for Analytics and Teradata, optimization and analytics.
as well as SaaS applications, such as Salesforce.
Informatica includes a capability it calls Smart • Performance optimization is a strong use case
Partitioning, which allows administrators to for Informatica. Smart Partitioning is a popular
relocate related inactive records across tables into choice for active database archiving.
a single database table space, and then effectively
exclude "smart partitions" from database Cautions
production operations, including queries, reports
• Informatica's customers have cited ease of use
and nonproduction copies. This "archive in place"
of Informatica Data Archive as an area in need
ensures that the database remains intact, retains
of improvement.
data for compliance and improves performance.
• With the exception of cloud service pricing,
Informatica Data Archive offers both native
Informatica is priced for clients with a sizable
dynamic data masking and compliance
data footprint or large number of applications.
management, which includes retention policies,
Its offerings do not scale down in price.
legal hold and data disposal. In 2014, Informatica
released its Application Retirement for Healthcare
• Pending shareholder and regulatory approvals,
Solution, which includes a patient-centric portal for
Informatica will be acquired by private equity
reporting, Audit Logging for HIPAA compliance and
this year, so funding levels for Informatica Data
Accounts Receivable Burndown to manage legacy
Archive are unclear.
receivables as part of its effort to focus on that
vertical. Informatica Data Archive also supports
OpenText
SAP archiving. Informatica has revamped its
pricing, with the introduction of a Secure Edition OpenText offers OpenText Archiving for SAP
aimed at application retirement that includes Solutions, including OpenText Data Archiving for
Data Vault, a repository component providing SAP Solutions and OpenText Document Access
extreme compression, role-based security and for SAP Solutions, for archiving SAP data and
open access. Other product packages are available, content. In addition to the SAP archiving products,
including one aimed at live archiving of production OpenText offers the InfoFusion Integration
environments, and another focused on application Center and InfoFusion Discovery Platform for
retirement for vertical applications as well as application decommissioning, data archiving and
historical analytics use cases. The product can information governance for non-SAP relational
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database management system (RDBMS) content. solutions. The NLS and NAI solutions support SAP
The products offer consolidated extraction, IQ, with support for Actian Vector and IBM DB2
transformation and loading (ETL), advanced search, with BLU Acceleration planned for 2015. PBS
content analytics and connectors to a wide variety ContentLink supports the archiving of structured
of structured and unstructured data sources. and unstructured data via ArchiveLink/WebDAV,
Content from all products is stored in the OpenText and the product is integrated with SAP ILM. Typical
Content Suite. Active archiving is a strength for use cases include archiving to manage database
OpenText, as documents like scanned images growth, compliance, and "nearline" analytics and
and unstructured content can be combined with reporting. Users can access archived and nearline
archived data in support of business processes data with standard SAP transactions, queries and
and workflow. Retention management includes report tools. Any file formats are supported within
support for records management and legal hold. the file-based archive. Numerous back-end storage
Content can be classified during archiving or devices providing write once, read many (WORM)
using OpenText Auto-Classification capabilities. capabilities are supported, as are Amazon, Google
OpenText's SAP archiving products are priced per and OpenStack cloud APIs. While the product is
named SAP user. InfoFusion Discovery Platform available worldwide, the company's strongest
pricing is based on a combination of connectors presence is in Europe, with products and support
and seats for various functions, such as search, available from multiple value-added resellers.
classification and content remediation.
PBS Software is best-suited for enterprises looking
Strengths to create an active archiving environment such
as Hana for SAP that incorporates both data and
• OpenText enjoys a strong relationship and unstructured documents.
has the largest joint customer base with SAP,
including numerous large, referenceable Strengths
customers.
• The solutions are feature-rich, and the
• OpenText provides strong retention company's long focus on SAP has resulted in a
management capabilities. strong set of products for managing aging SAP
data in nearline and archive environments.
• OpenText has wide global sales coverage and
support with well-balanced sales penetration • Customers cite technical support as excellent,
across the Americas, EMEA and Asia. via both partners and directly from PBS.

Cautions • Ease of use is rated highly, as the products are

tightly integrated into the SAP environment
• OpenText does not support Hadoop. ensuring transparent access from both the
online database, as well as the archive.
• Support for use cases like database or Oracle
application archiving is limited. Cautions

• Data masking capabilities are limited to • PBS is releasing support for additional nearline
unstructured content. databases, as well as a new product (EDS for
NAI) — prospects and customers should ensure
PBS Software they are comfortable with levels of support and
PBS is a small software company specializing feature/product maturity.
in SAP archiving. The company offers PBS
ContentLink for SAP content-based archiving, • Indexing large data volumes in PBS is time-
PBS CBW NLS for near-line storage archiving, consuming for SAP Archive Development Kit
and PBS Nearline Analytics Infrastructure (NAI) (ADK)-based indexing.
for archiving and analysis of large quantities of
information seen as complementary to SAP data. • PBS relies on partners for implementation and
The solutions support SAP BW and 30 different consulting services, most of whom are small
SAP ERP and SAP IS-U modules, as well as vertical but specialized and focused on SAP archiving
and ILM.
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Solix Technologies • As a platform, Solix requires ample out-of-the-

Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (EDMS) box configuration during the setup phase.
supports many applications and databases.
It is mostly used in Oracle E-Business Suite
Teradata (RainStor)
environments, but also supports Siebel, JD Edwards Teradata acquired RainStor in December 2014,
and PeopleSoft. EDMS stores data in a flat file expanding beyond its Integrated Big Data Platform
format, in relational databases and Hadoop. The Appliance 1xxx class systems for structured data
vendor has solidified support for unstructured archiving into heterogeneous storage solutions
data in 2015. Solix EDMS is available via a broad (shared storage, WORM for compliance and
variety of platforms including on-premises, Hadoop-based solutions). Teradata (RainStor)
appliance, private/hybrid cloud and SaaS. Solix has provides a much needed "back end" online/
relationships with other vendors/products, such as queryable archival option for traditional RDBMSs,
EMC InfoArchive, Kronos' cloud/SaaS platform, and including Oracle, Sybase IQ, SQL Server, IBM
integrates with Sybase IQ and Teradata (Rainstor) DB2, IBM PureData and, of course, Teradata
for columnar compression/deduplication. EDMS systems, which, to this point, had mainly relied
supports Apache, Cloudera and Hortonworks on archival to tape. Compression of 20X to 40X
Hadoop distributions as repositories for archived is not uncommon with RainStor. It supports ANSI
data. Solix introduced much-improved data SQL-92 and elements of SQL:2003 for running
retention policy capabilities and legal hold in queries. When combined with WORM storage, it
2014. provides immutability of the data. Record-level
tagging, legal hold, logical and physical purge, and
EDMS is most often sold and utilized in small source schema change pattern recognition are all
to midsize environments. On the roadmap provided with RainStor.
are enhancements for big data archiving and
retirement, partition-based archiving, aggregating Teradata RainStor is particularly well-suited for
of various archived objects into an object archival of large volumes of data and objects, and
workbench, concept search and predictive for RDBMSs including data warehouses. Going
clustering, and an upgraded rollback feature. forward, Teradata looks to integrate much of
RainStor's capabilities into its native environment,
Strengths while at the same time continuing to build upon
RainStor's support of heterogeneous data sources.
• Search and reporting has greatly improved in
2015, including support for Open Database Strengths
Connectivity (ODBC), Java Database
Connectivity (JDBC), and Java and Web services • RainStor's compression of structured data
for reporting. In addition, support for Tableau greatly reduces the storage footprint; data
and Datameer is solid for big data analytics. does not have to be decompressed to run SQL
queries or MapReduce.
• Solix is consistently noted as being cost-
effective for archiving projects. ROI is • RainStor supports a wide ecosystem of storage
frequently achieved in well less than a year. platforms, like EMC Isilon, data warehouses and
Hadoop distributions.
• Solix is at the forefront of offering archiving
capabilities for and supporting use cases • RainStor provides encryption on data at rest and
involving big data, with wide support for various in transit.
Hadoop distributions.
Cautions
Cautions
• RainStor's administration tools are command-
• Solix is still small enough that it can often be line-driven and need to have a graphical user
spread thin from a personnel standpoint interface that can centralize management.

• SAP archiving is a work in progress with a major • Non-Teradata customers who use RainStor
release slated for year-end 2015. should pay attention to the roadmap as it
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develops to ensure Teradata continues to • Archiving to an alternate (nonproduction)

support their non-Teradata environments. database or file format.

• The total cost of ownership for Teradata • Maintaining referential integrity (even for the
RainStor needs to be carefully evaluated. most complex data models).

Vendors Added and Dropped • Seamless access to archived data from the
original application or via alternate methods
We review and adjust our inclusion criteria for
(search, reporting).
Magic Quadrants and MarketScopes as markets
change. As a result of these adjustments, the mix • Security, access control and audit logs.
of vendors in any Magic Quadrant or MarketScope
may change over time. A vendor’s appearance in • The roadmap should support plans for big data
a Magic Quadrant or MarketScope one year and initiatives and analytics, including Apache
not the next does not necessarily indicate that Hadoop.
we have changed our opinion of that vendor. It
may be a reflection of a change in the market Higher ratings are:
and, therefore, changed evaluation criteria, or of a
change of focus by that vendor. • Assessed for support for data validation, broad
application support (including for custom and
Added legacy applications), data retention and purge
Actifio, DataVard and DCSoftware management, data discovery, data masking and
test data management, and support for legal
Dropped hold.
dataglobal, RSD and ZL Technologies
• Assigned to solutions with strong archive
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria architectures, policy-based archiving and
storage management features, quality of
• Offer products that meet the definition for
user experience, and support for unstructured
structured data archiving and application
content.
retirement detailed in the Market Definition/
Description section of this report. Overall Viability: Includes an assessment of the
• Be the developer of the product, and not just a vendor’s overall financial health, the financial and
reseller or VAR. practical success of the structured data archiving
business unit, and the likelihood of the individual
• Support a growing base of customers, including business unit to continue to invest in a structured
at least 15 enterprise customers that are using data archiving solution.
the software in a production environment.
Sales Execution/Pricing: The vendor’s
• Have a presence in at least two geographies capabilities in all sales activities, and the structure
(North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific region, that supports them. This includes pricing and
South America) worldwide and be industry- negotiation, presales support and the overall
independent. effectiveness of the sales channel.

• Provide its solution as an on-premises software Market Responsiveness/Track Record:

product, a SaaS offering or some combination. Includes the ability to respond, change direction
and be flexible as market dynamics vary. This
• Achieve more than $3 million in new license or
criterion also considers the vendor’s history of
maintenance revenue annually.
responsiveness.
Evaluation Criteria Marketing Execution: The effectiveness of the
Ability to Execute vendor’s marketing programs, and its ability to
Product: An evaluation of the features and create awareness and mind share in the market.
functions of the vendor’s structured data archiving It assesses whether the messaging is clear,
solution, including those related to: whether the vendor provided references that used
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the unique features of the product in its target Business Model: The soundness and logic of a
environment, and whether the promotion of the vendor’s underlying business proposition.
product on the company website is effective.
Vertical/Industry Strategy: The vendor’s strategy
Customer Experience: The quality of the for meeting the specific needs of individual vertical
customer experience based on reference calls and markets and market segments (for example,
Gartner client teleconferences (inquiry). financial-industry-regulated employee supervision,
or state and local government information
Operations: The ability of the organization to retention and disclosure requirements).
meet its goals and commitments in an efficient
manner. Past performance is weighted heavily. Innovation: The vendor’s product leadership and
ability to deliver archiving features and functions
Table 1. Ability to Execute Evaluation Criteria that distinguish the vendor from its competitors.

Evaluation Criteria Weighting Geographic Strategy: The vendor’s strategy for

penetrating geographies outside its home or native
Product or Service High market.
Overall Viability High
A vendor’s Completeness of Vision is evaluated
Sales Execution/Pricing High
based on its ability to convincingly articulate its
Market Responsiveness/Record Medium product direction and demonstrate innovation in
Marketing Execution High meeting customer needs, enabling the vendor
to more effectively compete in the market. The
Customer Experience High
credibility of a vendor’s vision is weighed against
Operations Medium its past Ability to Execute and against previously
stated plans. Market understanding should be
Source: Gartner (June 2015)
the guiding factor in new product development
Completeness of Vision to ensure that the engineered product meets
customer needs. Managing the complexity of
Market Understanding: Ability of the vendor archiving environments requires innovative
to understand buyers’ needs, and to translate approaches that will distinguish leaders and
those needs into the appropriate features in the delight customers.
structured data archiving product, along with the
ability to anticipate market trends (for example, Table 2. Completeness of Vision Evaluation
the requirement to support heterogeneous Criteria
applications and databases, including SAP) and
to adapt quickly via new features, partnerships or
acquisitions. Evaluation Criteria Weighting
Market Understanding High
Marketing Strategy: A clear set of messages Marketing Strategy Medium
that positions the product and differentiates it
from competitors, consistently communicated Sales Strategy Medium
throughout the organization and externalized Offering (Product) Strategy High
through the website, advertising, customer
Business Model Low
programs and positioning statements.
Vertical/Industry Strategy Low
Sales Strategy: The vendor’s strategy for selling Innovation Medium
to its target audience, including an analysis of
the appropriate mix of direct and indirect sales Geographic Strategy Low
channels. Source: Gartner (June 2015)

Offering (Product) Strategy: An evaluation of the

vendor’s strategic product direction, including an
analysis of its roadmap.
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Quadrant Descriptions Niche Players

Leaders Niche Players are narrowly focused on an
application type, such as SAP, offer some degree
Leaders have the highest combined measures of
of structured data archiving as an adjunct to
Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.
enterprise information archiving (unstructured
They may have the most comprehensive and
content archiving, such as email, files or
scalable products. They have a proven track record
SharePoint) or offer broad capabilities without
of financial performance and an established
the relative success of their competitors in
market presence. In terms of vision, they are
other quadrants. This is acceptable for a number
perceived as thought leaders, with well-articulated
of buyers, and some of the Niche Players'
plans for ease of use, product breadth and how to
offerings are used successfully by very large
address scalability. For vendors to have long-term
global enterprises. Niche Players may focus on a
success, they must plan to address the expanded
segment of the market and do it well, or they may
market requirements for structured data archiving
simply have modest horizons and lower overall
and application retirement, including support for
capabilities compared with competitors. Others
Apache Hadoop and big data, support for the cloud,
are simply too new to the market or have fallen
solid relevant SAP archiving functionality, and a
behind, and, although they're worth watching, they
strong administrative UI.
have not yet developed complete functionality or
Leaders must not only deliver to current market the Ability to Execute. Niche Players in this Magic
requirements, which continue to change, but Quadrant are Actifio, Data Migration, DataVard and
also anticipate and begin to deliver on future DCSoftware.
requirements. A cornerstone for Leaders is the
ability to articulate how these requirements will Context
be addressed as part of their vision for expanded Placement on the Magic Quadrant is based on
archive management. As a group, Leaders are Gartner's view of a vendor's performance against
considered part of most new-purchase proposals, the criteria noted in this research. Gartner's
and have high success rates in winning new view regarding vendor placement on the Magic
business. There are five Leaders in this Magic Quadrant is heavily influenced by surveys
Quadrant: Delphix, IBM, Informatica, HP and Solix completed by the vendors, and several hundred
Technologies. inquiries and one-on-one conversations at Gartner
conferences conducted during the past 12 months
Challengers with our clients on the topic of structured data
Challengers can execute today, but have a limited archiving. The Magic Quadrant methodology
or an evolving vision. They have capable products includes the solicitation of references from each
and can perform well for many enterprises. These vendor; Gartner then conducts reference checks
vendors have the financial and market resources from a set of those customers.
and capabilities to become Leaders, but may have
elected to focus more heavily on one vertical This Magic Quadrant does not rate only a product's
industry or one structured data archiving use case. quality, capabilities and features. The product is
There are two Challengers in this Magic Quadrant: an important part of the rating, but the vendor's
OpenText and PBS Software. ability to acquire and support customers is equally
important, as is its ability to grow product and
Visionaries service revenue. A vendor that offers a strong,
technically elegant product, but is unable or
Visionaries are forward-thinking, but their
unwilling to invest in marketing and sales to
execution has not propelled them into a leadership
generate revenue and growth, will find itself
position. These vendors are differentiated by
unable to invest sufficiently in development.
product innovation, but they have not achieved
the sales and marketing success required to give
Market Overview
them the high visibility of Leaders. In the case of
this Magic Quadrant, they may be hampered by Based on Gartner's estimates, the size of the
their product immaturity or lack of structured data structured data archiving and application
archiving features and capabilities. The Visionaries retirement market is $263 million — with
in this Magic Quadrant are EMC and Teradata additional related product revenue at $27 million
(RainStor). — and growing at a compound annual growth rate
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(CAGR) of 10%. The use of this technology has using HDFS to store structured data, as well as
long been viewed as a cost avoidance measure information such as social and machine data that
to contain operational and capital expenditures doesn't fit into databases. Many organizations
related to data growth, and as a measure to are looking to add structure and meaning to
improve factors such as application performance. this information repository, beyond just using it
The market is changing and expanding due to as a low-cost means of storage. Structured data
growth in data, application retirement, information archiving vendors have responded by adding
governance and big data analysis opportunities. support for Apache Hadoop as a data source and
a target. Gartner expects to see this emerging
Application Retirement as a Leading requirement for Hadoop support going beyond
Use Case for Structured Data Archiving baseline storage management to include support
for more analytic tools (for example, from Tableau
Organizational mergers and acquisitions, data Software) and other reporting mechanisms, to the
center consolidation, and migration to cloud-based point where the line between archiving and active
applications have accelerated the requirement use will blur. Big data analytic tools will become
to retire legacy and redundant applications. a baseline component of structured data archiving
Application retirement presents numerous cost tools by 2016. The various distributions of Hadoop,
benefits and efficiencies that further fuel this such as Hortonworks and Cloudera, are increasingly
trend. emphasizing information life cycle and retention
management in Hadoop. This will put pressure
Although the storage savings and positive effects
on structured data archiving vendors to innovate
of reduced complexity are highly attractive,
further in this area; for example, some vendors are
the relationship between applications and data
beginning to provide integration and support for
makes application retirement a highly complex
technologies like Hive to allow for SQL-like queries
task. Enterprises must understand and develop
into the archived data.
requirements for data access and long-term
retention, and execute policies based on those
objectives. Identifying candidates and developing
Growing Importance of Information
a business case for retirement based on potential Governance in Structured Data
cost savings must accompany these efforts. Structured data from applications is an easy target
for external auditors. They are experienced in
Structured data archiving solutions can help in identifying the relevant applications and lack of
application retirement. Application retirement controls that may occur in protecting valuable
typically involves the transfer and retention of the financial data. In some respects, it's an easier task
underlying database and requires consideration than identifying unstructured content, such as
of a number of factors, including ongoing access spreadsheets that contain financial data that may
requirements, preservation of data and its business be scattered and managed lightly in the enterprise.
logic, governance and retention requirements, and Auditors may raise a red flag if the legacy
data storage. In response to application retirement application is so old that it's no longer supported
trends, structured data archiving vendors have or loosely managed. Migrating data to an upgraded
developed solutions to retire legacy applications version of the application or to an alternate
and their associated infrastructure. Greater interest format may mitigate this problem of maintaining
in application retirement is contributing to the structured data.
growth of the structured data archiving market.
Most of the IT focus on preparing for and
The Trend Toward Big Data Analytics responding to e-discovery requests has been
and Petabyte-Scale Archives for unstructured data. However, there have
been numerous cases where structured data
The growing use of Apache Hadoop, increasing
has been a target for discovery requests. The
data warehouse volume sizes and the
discovery of structured data presents a warning,
accumulation of legacy systems in organizations
and organizations want to ensure they can
are fostering structured data growth. These factors
respond quickly to requests for information
are leading enterprises to understand how to
when that information is not accessible from
reuse, repurpose and gain critical insight from
its native application. By taking an active and
this data. Apache Hadoop is capable of storing
systematic approach to application retirement,
large volumes of data. Thus, organizations are
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organizations can purge data that no longer has supports data and document archiving for SAP
business relevance, not only to reduce costs modules. CommVault has stated its roadmap
for maintenance, but also to reduce the cost of intentions for supporting additional structured
responding to e-discovery requests by making data data archiving capabilities in future product
more searchable, defensible and easier to preserve. releases.

Role of SAP in Structured Data • Gimmal, with its ERP-Link product, takes the
Archiving and Retirement approach of enhancing and using Microsoft
SharePoint as a strategic enterprise repository
The structured data archiving market includes for managing content, including SAP data and
solutions that archive data from applications documents. Gimmal provides strong domain
such as those from SAP. As is the case for any expertise and technology related to records and
application, previous SAP instances need to be retention management that can be applied to
retired and the data managed systematically for structured data.
cost and governance reasons, with support for
ongoing access to data. This trend is accelerating, • SAP offers NetWeaver Information Lifecycle
with a steady stream of Gartner clients inquiring Management, which archives SAP data and
about SAP retirement as extended maintenance provides retention management capabilities.
will be expiring soon for some SAP applications, NetWeaver ILM helps organizations comply
such SAP CRM, Supply Chain Management (SCM) with audit and compliance requirements, and
and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) consolidates SAP instances.
2007. In many instances, vendors such as IBM
and Informatica provide solutions for archiving • ZL Technologies provides ZL Unified Archive,
directly from databases, as well as active archiving, for archiving of all content types (structured
and application retirement for SAP and other and unstructured). The product has historically
ERP and CRM applications. Numerous vendors been deployed for email and instant message
are certified and support SAP archiving for active archiving, and, over the past few years,
archiving through the SAP ADK and XML Archive ZL’s focus has expanded to include files,
API. Gartner inquiries show that clients are open popular social media platforms, collaborative
to alternatives to this approach, indicating that, applications and some RDBMSs such as Oracle,
although solutions exist, lack of credible SAP Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2.
expertise and high prices have plagued adoption.
Like the interest in application retirement, some Evaluation Criteria Definitions
vendors have identified these gaps in a well-
established market and are making inroads Ability to Execute
against long-established players. A new use case Product/Service: Core goods and services offered
emerging for SAP archiving is the need to extract by the vendor for the defined market. This includes
data from SAP Hana, as organizations look to current product/service capabilities, quality,
manage older, less frequently accessed data in feature sets, skills and so on, whether offered
lower-cost environments like Hadoop rather than natively or through OEM agreements/partnerships
with in-memory databases like Hana. As part of as defined in the market definition and detailed in
the Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving the subcriteria.
and Application Retirement, Gartner evaluated and
identified SAP archiving and retirement solutions. Overall Viability: Viability includes an
assessment of the overall organization’s financial
Vendors to Watch health, the financial and practical success of
the business unit, and the likelihood that the
In addition to the 13 vendors evaluated in this individual business unit will continue investing
Magic Quadrant, numerous other vendors offer in the product, will continue offering the product
archiving products specifically for structured data. and will advance the state of the art within the
The following list includes vendors that provide, or organization’s portfolio of products.
have plans to provide, support for structured data
archiving and application retirement: Sales Execution/Pricing: The vendor’s
capabilities in all presales activities and the
• CommVault provides Simpana, a single- structure that supports them. This includes deal
platform approach to backup and archiving, and management, pricing and negotiation, presales
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support, and the overall effectiveness of the sales and depth of market reach, skills, expertise,
channel. technologies, services and the customer base.

Market Responsiveness/Record: Ability to Offering (Product) Strategy: The vendor’s

respond, change direction, be flexible and achieve approach to product development and delivery
competitive success as opportunities develop, that emphasizes differentiation, functionality,
competitors act, customer needs evolve and methodology and feature sets as they map to
market dynamics change. This criterion also current and future requirements.
considers the vendor’s history of responsiveness.
Business Model: The soundness and logic of the
Marketing Execution: The clarity, quality, vendor’s underlying business proposition.
creativity and efficacy of programs designed to
deliver the organization’s message to influence Vertical/Industry Strategy: The vendor’s strategy
the market, promote the brand and business, to direct resources, skills and offerings to meet
increase awareness of the products, and establish a the specific needs of individual market segments,
positive identification with the product/brand and including vertical markets.
organization in the minds of buyers. This “mind
share” can be driven by a combination of publicity, Innovation: Direct, related, complementary
promotional initiatives, thought leadership, word of and synergistic layouts of resources, expertise or
mouth and sales activities. capital for investment, consolidation, defensive or
pre-emptive purposes.
Customer Experience: Relationships, products
and services/programs that enable clients to Geographic Strategy: The vendor’s strategy to
be successful with the products evaluated. direct resources, skills and offerings to meet the
Specifically, this includes the ways customers specific needs of geographies outside the “home”
receive technical support or account support. This or native geography, either directly or through
can also include ancillary tools, customer support partners, channels and subsidiaries as appropriate
programs (and the quality thereof), availability of for that geography and market.
user groups, service-level agreements and so on.
Source: Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00266173,
Garth Landers, Alan Dayley, Sheila Childs, 16 June 2015
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
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