ASG's metaCMDB(R) Earns "On Fire" Vendor Rating From Leading Independent Research Firm
ASG's CMDB Acknowledged for Its Simplicity of Solution and CMS Attributes
| Source: ASG Software Solutions
NAPLES, FL--(Marketwire - June 25, 2009) - ASG Software
Solutions, the originator of ASG's
Business Service Portfolio™ (BSP™) and a worldwide leader in
business solutions for global enterprises, today announced it has received
an overall rating of "On Fire" in the "heat factor" evaluation scale used
in the Forrester Research June "Tech Horizons: ASG's metaCMDB, The Technology That Rocks" report. Tech Horizons,
a series of vendor strategy reports, identifies potential emerging markets
and outlines key criteria for evaluating new solutions and assessing their
viability.
In addition to validating the metadata repository of
ASG-Rochade®, the underlying technology of ASG's metaCMDB, the
Forrester report reinforced the value of configuration management database
(CMDB) deployments as a "system" -- more specifically, as a federated
configuration management system (CMS) comprised of multiple CMDBs,
monitoring tools, and data stores.
ASG's metaCMDB "actually resembles a CMS more than a CMDB," writes
Forrester, because of its federated technology and step-by-step
implementation via ASG's Path
to Optimization. While the Forrester report acknowledges that few
enterprises have started to implement a CMS, it predicts that "the CMS will
actually replace the CMDB as the main implementation scheme as early as
2010."
Report highlights:
Market heat factor: ASG's "easier path" to building true federation and
eventually a CMS resolves one of the main problems organizations are facing
in their CMDB implementations, according to Forrester: "building a CMDB
that is effectively useful for the diverse activities of IT service
delivery." This ability, combined with ASG's longstanding experience in IT
management software (ITMS), led Forrester to rate the market heat factor
for ASG's metaCMDB at its highest.
Adoption: Forrester anticipates the likelihood of the adoption of ASG's
metaCMDB to be "excellent" based on its technical and economic advantages,
which include solution "simplicity," "stepped implementation," the ability
to federate data across managed data repositories, and quick time to value.
Implementation: Forrester grants ASG's metaCMDB a perfect rating in this
section of the report for the "outstanding value" it presents in its
deployment. From the very first step, Forrester observes, ASG's technology
allows "any technology group in an IT operation [to] implement the data
store and immediately see the benefits."
According to the Tech Horizons report, ASG has made "spectacular progress"
over the past three years, due to its "aggressive marketing of its BSM
solution." The report also acknowledges that ASG's metaCMDB, as the hub of
ASG's BSM solution (ASG's BSP) and cornerstone to the more advanced steps
of ASG's Path to Optimization, "clears the pathway for creating a federated
CMS as defined by ITIL."(1)
Supporting Resources
-- Forrester Research Report: Tech
Horizons: ASG's MetaCMDB, The Technology That Rocks
-- Related press release: ASG's Path to
Optimization Approach Validated By Leading Organizations
-- Related white paper:
How to Populate Your CMDB in Four Steps
-- Web page: ASG's metaCMDB
-- On-demand webcast: How a Configuration Management Database Can Help
You Survive an Economic Hurricane presented by ASG and featuring
Forrester Research, Inc.
About ASG | www.asg.com
ASG provides software solutions to more than 85 percent of the world's
largest companies. Through its comprehensive Business Service Management
(BSM) solution, Business Service Portfolio™, ASG is an established BSM
provider with a strong heritage in metadata management; information
management; applications management; infrastructure, performance, and
operations management; and service and support technologies. ASG enables
clients to reduce costs, improve business-service delivery, and reduce
risks. Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held company based in Naples,
Florida, USA, with more than 90 offices worldwide.
(1) Tech Horizons: ASG's MetaCMDB, The Technology That Rocks, Forrester
Research, Inc., June 2009