Launching onto the Gartner Magic Quadrant

August 12th, 2009 by Julia Lim

Another milestone to report for ScienceLogic – our first Gartner Magic Quadrant! No mean feat, since we are deliberately not a point solution and the Magic Quadrants usually focus on best of breed in different categories.

Gartner just published their Magic Quadrant for Event Correlation and Analysis (ECA) and it’s no surprise that the Big 4 – plus Microsoft and EMC – are well positioned in the report. The analysts evaluate a specific product from each vendor included in the report according to a defined set of ECA criteria and then position vendors along two axes – Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision- which in turn drops the vendor into one of 4 quadrants – Niche Players, Challengers, Visionaries and Leaders. Even being included on the list puts in the “player” category - in this case, meaning Gartner customers are asking the analysts about us.

Their market definition/description for ECA covers:

• Support acceptance of events from elements in the IT infrastructure (at least from 2 of the following list - hw, sw, server, virtual machine, operating system, network, storage, security, database, application and mainframe elements – BTW, we cover all of them)
• Process events using consolidation, filtering, normalization, enrichment, correlation and analysis techniques

ECA is at the heart of what EM7 does – providing fault management across all infrastructure components for a unified view of what’s happening in the data center (and even outside of it – when it comes to public clouds and remote/mobile assets). But it’s not all that we do. Add performance management, asset management, some configuration management and even service desk on top of that in one integrated solution literally out-of-the-box – and you have EM7 Meta-Appliances. We are the only ”framework appliance” out there – and the only appliance on the Gartner ECA Magic Quadrant.

The company was started with this philosophy – to deliver the comprehensive and unified views and management necessary for IT operations management (the framework promise) BUT cut the cost, complexity and time to value to create a solution the market really needs (typically where the frameworks fall down). No modules. No integration. No additional DBA resources. No extra hardware…and the list goes on.

Where we landed in the Magic Quadrant: Squarely in the Niche Players section. Not too shabby for a first go-round (pretty darn pleased actually).

What you’ll see from us in the future: Given the very deep pockets (and other resources) of the Big 4, you probably won’t see us move a lot up the Ability to Execute axis (although we might have something exciting to say and do about this by early 2010), but you will hopefully see us move smartly along the Completeness of Vision axis – as we incorporate more features that round out our BSM story to better show the business impact of IT operations. Stay tuned.

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