Network management survey results

Network World, 09/13/99

Here’s how users graded their primary network mgmt. platforms on a variety of attributes.

Enterprise mgmt. platforms

	CA Unicenter TNG	Cabletron Spectrum Enterprise Mgr	HP OpenView	Tivoli platforms	Avg of all rated platforms*
Scalability	87	91	88	90	88
Integration with other mgmt. tools	85	86	87	87	86
Mgmt. capabilities	86	90	88	90	88
Overall value	83	89	87	90	86
Asset/ inventory mgmt.	80	85	83	88	82
Backup mgmt.	81	84	83	87	83
Configuration mgmt.	84	90	85	86	85
Database mgmt.	81	86	82	87	82
Performance mgmt.	84	92	86	85	86
Problem mgmt.	84	91	87	88	87
Software distribution	81	84	82	88	82
Security mgmt.	83	89	84	87	85
Server mgmt.	84	88	85	87	86
Application mgmt.	81	86	83	85	83
Network optimization capabilities	83	91	85	85	86
Systems optimization	83	91	84	84	84
Web server mgmt.	80	83	83	81	82
Automated diagnosis	83	91	84	84	85
Automated corrective actions	81	88	82	82	83
Alert correlation capabilities	85	90	85	87	86
Directory integration	80	89	82	82	83
Overall satisfaction	83	89	87	89	87

Factors in bold type represent statistically significant differences.
* Includes products for which we didn’t have enough responses to rate individually.

LAN mgmt. platforms

	HP OpenView	Microsoft SMS	Novell ManageWise	All rated platforms*
Scalability	88	86	86	87
Integration with other mgmt. tools	88	82	85	85
Mgmt. capabilities	88	86	87	87
Overall value	87	86	87	87
Asset/ inventory mgmt.	81	83	81	84
Backup mgmt.	84	83	83	85
Configuration mgmt.	85	84	85	85
Database mgmt.	84	84	83	86
Performance mgmt.	86	85	87	82
Problem mgmt.	86	84	83	84
Software distribution	83	85	84	83
Security mgmt.	84	84	86	83
Server mgmt.	85	84	88	84
Application mgmt.	83	84	83	82
Network optimization capabilities	85	83	85	86
Systems optimization	84	83	83	84
Web server mgmt.	83	82	80	83
Automated diagnosis	85	80	82	85
Automated corrective actions	81	78	82	84
Alert correlation capabilities	85	83	82	84
Directory integration	82	83	88	80
Overall satisfaction	87	87	86	87

Factors in bold type represent statistically significant differences.
* Includes products for which we didn’t have enough responses to rate individually.

Number of network clients

The typical respondent has an average of 5,270 clients at his location and 17,862 in the entire organization.

At respondent’s location

In entire organization

Less than 500

53%

17%

500 – 999

7%

6%

1,000 - 9,999

30%

33%

10,000 – 49,999

8%

29%

50,000 or more

2%

15%

Big money

Survey respondents work for companies that made an average of $11.4 billion in gross revenue last year.

Less than $50 million

19%

$50M-$999.9 million

21%

$1 billion -$9.9 billion

19%

$10 billion or more

16%

Non-profit

25%

Industry

As shown, survey participants represent a range of industries.

Retail/Wholesale trade/Business services

19%

Manufacturing

15%

Government/Military

14%

Education

10%

Health care services

7%

Finance/Banking

6%

Insurance/Real estate/Legal services

4%

Other

25%

Network management platform usage

Just over half of our survey respondents are from organizations that exclusively use LAN management platforms, while most of the others use both enterprise and LAN management products.

LAN only 53%
Enterprise only 14%
Both platforms 33%

Network management survey results

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