Data Quadrant Awards 2020
Data Center Automation
SoftwareReviews names Micro Focus Data Center Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation, and ConnectWise Automate as Data Center Automation Data Quadrant Award Winners.
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Data Center Automation
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- user satisfaction rankings
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- vendor capability comparisons
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- business value scores
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- individual feature evaluations
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- emotional connection to products
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Software Experience
When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.
Product Features and Satisfaction
The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.
Vendor Experience and Capabilities
The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).
Gold Medalists
Micro Focus
Micro Focus Data Center Automation
Micro Focus Data Center Automation (DCA) detects and remediates patch vulnerabilities; regulatory and enterprise compliance risks across servers, databases and middleware. DCA proactively manages to policy-based objectives, with closed-loop remediation and exception handling.
8.2
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+84
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
84%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Red Hat
Red Hat Ansible Automation
Red Hat® Ansible® Automation is automation software powered by Red Hat Ansible Engine—an execution engine with hundreds of modules that can automate all aspects of IT environments and processes—and Red Hat Ansible Tower—a management interface that can integrate with other services.
8.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+82
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
82%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
ConnectWise
ConnectWise Automate
ConnectWise Automate Solves IT Problems at the Speed of Business. Boost the effectiveness of your IT teams with flexible remote monitoring and management.
8.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+78
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
85%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Micro Focus Data Center Automation
Breadth of Features
Puppet Enterprise
Business Value Created
Micro Focus Data Center Automation
Ease of Customization
CA Workload Automation
Ease of Data Integration
Puppet Enterprise
Ease of IT Administration
Red Hat Ansible Automation
Ease of Implementation
CA Workload Automation
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Red Hat Ansible Automation
Quality of Features
Micro Focus Data Center Automation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Micro Focus Data Center Automation
Vendor Support
Puppet Enterprise
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Micro Focus Data Center Automation
Breadth of Features
Puppet Enterprise
Business Value Created
Micro Focus Data Center Automation
Ease of Customization
CA Workload Automation
Ease of Data Integration
Puppet Enterprise
Ease of IT Administration
Red Hat Ansible Automation
Ease of Implementation
CA Workload Automation
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Red Hat Ansible Automation
Quality of Features
Micro Focus Data Center Automation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Micro Focus Data Center Automation
Vendor Support
Puppet Enterprise
Other Evaluated Vendors
Broadcom Inc.
CA Workload Automation
Manage complex workload across platforms, ERP systems, business apps from mainframe to microservices.
7.8
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+79
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
78%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Microsoft
Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager
Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.
7.7
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+76
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
80%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
PuppetLabs
Puppet Enterprise
Puppet Enterprise makes it easy to automate the provisioning, configuration and ongoing management of your machines and the software running on them. Make rapid, repeatable changes and automatically enforce the consistency of systems and devices – across physical and virtual machines, on premise or in the cloud.
7.7
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+80
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
77%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
VMware, Inc.
VMware vRealize Automation
VMware vRealize Automation automates the delivery of IT services, and enables IT to embed automation and policies within blueprints including network and security services, accelerating the delivery of production-ready infrastructure.
7.5
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+71
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
80%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair). The top 5 vendors in a software category are eligible for awards pending composite scores achieve a sufficiently high satisfaction threshold.
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