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Survey: Maximizing the ROI of Network Management Solutions
- 1. Maximizing the ROI of Network
Management Solutions
Conducted by IDG™ Research Services
June 2013
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- 2. Study Overview
» Do current network management and monitoring
solutions offer enough value?
» What is inhibiting organizations from maximizing
ROI?
» What is the savings required to consider switching
solution providers?
» What’s holding organizations back from switching?
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Demographics
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21%
16%
20%
16%
25%
2%
Company Size
(# of employees)
50,000 or more
20,000-49,999
10,000-19,999
5,000 - 9,999
1,000-4,999
500-999
104 IT practitioners, managers and directors in the U.S. and Canada from public- and private-sector
small, mid-size and enterprise companies participated in a June 2013 online survey
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Network Management & Monitoring Vendors
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Q: What vendor(s) do you currently use for your organization’s network management or monitoring solution? (Please select all that apply.)
Base: 104 qualified respondents
Other (verbatim)
BMC® Open Source
Cacti® Open NMS™
Confi® OpNet®
EMC® (2) OpUtils®
Entarasys® Netsight™ Outsourcer®
Icinga® Paessler® (4)
InterMapper® (3) Plixer®
WhatsUp Gold® Quest® Foglight™
ManageEngine® (2) Science Logic®
McAfee® SevOne®
Microsoft® StatSeeker® (3)
MRG® Uptime® (2)
Nagios® (4) Zabbix®
NetScout® (4) Zenoss® (4)
Network Instruments
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ROI Results for Users of Big Four
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Percent
Agree
Percent
Disagree
66%
55%
36%
19%
27%
37%
Q: Please indicate your agreement level with the following statements.
Base: 44 qualified respondents
Big 4: Cisco, HP, IBM, CA
Our organization’s current network management or monitoring solution includes capabilities
and/or features that we do not need or utilize
Our organization would be willing to give up functions or capabilities of our current network
management or monitoring solution that we do not use to reduce total cost of ownership
The results or the return on investment my organization gets from our current network
management or monitoring solution is not enough to justify the total cost of ownership
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Inhibitors to Maximizing ROI
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Q: What do you feel are the biggest inhibitors of getting the maximum ROI out of your organization’s current network management or
monitoring solution? (Please select all that apply.)
Base: 44 qualified respondents
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Savings Required to Switch
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Q: What is the minimum amount of savings you would need to experience on your annual network maintenance contract in order to consider
switching to a different network management or monitoring solution provider?
Base: 44 qualified respondents
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Biggest Inhibitors to Change
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Q: What are your organization’s biggest barriers to switching to a different network management or monitoring solution provider?
(Please select all that apply.)
Base: 44
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About IDG
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technology marketers. As a division of International Data Group (IDG), the world's
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