Sumerian is delighted to announce that it has been included in the 2011 list of "Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management" report by Gartner, Inc.
Authored by Milind Govekar, David M. Coyle, Debra Curtis, Ronni J. Colville and Will Cappelli, the report featured a select group of vendors who were recognised as innovative, impactful and intriguing within the operations technology community.
According to the report, IT operations management is a market that has seen astounding innovation in recent years and is becoming an increasingly important area of focus for business leaders. The report notes, "To improve business intelligence for IT, it has become necessary to use IT analytics to solve routine, yet critical, issues such as capacity planning, service management reporting and application performance."
"We are delighted and honored to be named a 'Cool Vendor' by Gartner, Inc.," said Calum Smeaton, CEO of Sumerian. "This report clearly signifies the mounting importance of deploying intelligent analytics in order to align IT to support business objectives. Our goal at Sumerian is to give IT leaders the actionable insight they need to manage costs, target investment and improve performance."
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Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.