Introduction

This brief analyses the strengths and weaknesses of EMC's IT systems management offering. EMC is rated according to its market impact (based on revenues), user sentiment (based on customer perceptions) and technology, therefore providing a complete view of its capabilities.

Scope

• Technology: an assessment of EMC's technology based on specific attributes and the availability of certain features.
• User sentiment: tracks end-users' impression of EMC's products based on a survey of over 500 IT systems management users.
• Market impact: measures EMC's market impact based on its revenues and financial performance.

Highlights

IT systems management solutions are at the point of convergence for many of the trends that are affecting enterprise IT, and it will be of great strategic importance to IT vendors and enterprises alike.

Reasons to Purchase

• Gain detailed knowledge of EMC's strengths with regards to technology, user sentiment and market impact.
• IT systems management vendors can benchmark their own performance in various key criteria against EMC's.
• Enterprise IT managers will gain valuable insight to improve their IT systems management purchasing decisions.

• Appendix
  • Extended methodology
  • Technology
  • User sentiment
  • Market Impact
  • Further reading
  • Ask the analyst
• List Of Figures
  • Figure 1: The EMC IT Systems Management Radar