IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING

Application & Business Services

• Application Performance & Availability Management
• Application Availability & Performance Management for Cloud & Hybrid Environments
• Application Performance Management (APM), Service, and Business-related User Experience Management
• Application Integration & API Management
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Emerging Technologies Impacting APM
• Service Governance and Business Impact
• IT Service Management
• IT Portfolio Planning and Business Optimization
• IT Asset Management
• Service and Operations Bridge
• Service Management and Cloud

In-depth Coverage Area Overview

BI & Data Warehousing

• Data Integration
  • Data Stewardship
  • Data Quality Management
• Data Management
  • Relational database management
  • Multi-structured (NoSQL) data store management
• Business Analytics
  • Cloud-based analytics
  • Advanced/predictive analytical modeling
• Knowledge Presentation and Visualization
  • Dashboards, reporting
  • Corporate performance management (CPM) embedded visualization
• Actionable Intelligence
• Collaboration and Social interactions
• Analytics for Decision support
• Enterprise content management (ECM) platforms
• Knowledge management (KM) platforms
• Master data management (MDM) practices
  • Customer data integration (CDI)
• Product data solutions

Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure Management

• Cloud Automation and Orchestration
• Cloud Resource Management
• Hybrid Cloud Monitoring
• Data Center Automation
• Workload Automation
• Server & OS Virtualization
• Unified Multi-Domain Operations Monitoring
• Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
• Converged Infrastructure Management
• Software-Defined Data Center

IT Governance

• Security Governance & Regulatory Compliance (GRC)
• COBIT/COSO
• Security Risk Management
• IT Financial Planning, Risk & Control
• Project & Portfolio Management
• IT Human Resource Management
• Vendor and Contract Management

Mobile & Endpoint Management

• Server and Client Lifecycle Management
  • Provisioning
  • Patching and Updating
  • Change and Configuration
  • Remote Control
  • Problem Remediation
  • Monitoring & Reporting
• Enterprise Mobility Management
  • Mobile Device Management
  • Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) Management
  • Mobile Security Management
  • Mobile Application Management
• Desktop/Application Virtualization
• Workspace Management

Network Management

• Network Capacity Planning
• Network Change & Configuration Management
• Network Event & Performance Management
• Application-aware Network Performance Management
• Network Management Analytics
• Software-Defined Networking
• Network Function Virtualization
• Network Visibility Controllers
• Network Performance Optimization
  • WOC, ADC/LB solutions
  • WAN virtualization
  • Optimized Business Internet
• Network Testing and Lifecycle Management
• Integrated UC/VoIP/Video Management

Security & Risk Management

• Security Analytics/SIEM/Log Management
• IT GRC
  • PCI, SOX, GLBA, HIPAA
  • COSO, COBiT, ITIL, NIST
• Awareness & Education
• Advanced Endpoint Security
• Identity and Access Management
• Security-based Change Management
• Digital/Cyber Forensics
• On-line Fraud Detection
• Secure Data Management
  • Content/Web Filtering
  • DRM
  • DLP
  • Data Classification
  • Data Encryption
• Secure Communications
• Secure Application Development
• Mobile Security
• Network Security
• Vulnerability & Threat Management
  • AntiVirus
  • APT
  • ATA
  • Vulnerability Scanning/Testing
    

Storage Management

• Storage Device Management
• Storage Performance management
• Storage Capacity Planning
• Cloud Storage
• Storage Resource Management
• Backup & Disaster Recovery (BDR)
• Software-Defined Storage (SDS)
• SAN and NAS Management
• Storage Virtualization
• Storage High-availability
• Storage Cluster Management
• Storage Tiering