Data Quadrant Awards 2024

Data Center Automation

SoftwareReviews names Data Center Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager as Data Center Automation Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Data Center Automation

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Gold Medalists

67Reviews

OpenText Corporation

Data Center Automation

Accelerate identification, prioritization, and remediation of noncompliant configurations and exposures through automation—on prem or SaaS.

8.1

Composite
Score

+90

Emotional
Footprint

85%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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106Reviews

Red Hat

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat® Ansible® Automation is automation software powered by Red Hat Ansible Engine—an execution engine with hundreds of modules that can automate all aspects of IT environments and processes—and Red Hat Ansible Tower—a management interface that can integrate with other services.

8.1

Composite
Score

+84

Emotional
Footprint

85%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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119Reviews

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager

Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.

7.9

Composite
Score

+80

Emotional
Footprint

82%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Data Center Automation

Breadth of Features

ConnectWise Automate

Business Value Created

Data Center Automation

Ease of Customization

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Ease of Data Integration

ConnectWise Automate

Ease of IT Administration

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Ease of Implementation

Data Center Automation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Data Center Automation

Quality of Features

Data Center Automation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Data Center Automation

Vendor Support

Puppet Enterprise

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Data Center Automation

Breadth of Features

ConnectWise Automate

Business Value Created

Data Center Automation

Ease of Customization

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Ease of Data Integration

ConnectWise Automate

Ease of IT Administration

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Ease of Implementation

Data Center Automation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Data Center Automation

Quality of Features

Data Center Automation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Data Center Automation

Vendor Support

Puppet Enterprise

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21Reviews

Cisco Systems

CISCO Data Center Automation

Cisco provides automation modules that allow for assimilation at a pace that is comfortable for your organization. Start with infrastructure automation, and when you're ready, expand your capabilities to enterprise and hybrid cloud or application automation. All modules work together and are operated using a common interface, which simplifies service lifecycle management. You can trust Cisco for data center automation that gets your business where it needs to be, as fast as it needs to be there.

7.8

Composite
Score

+88

Emotional
Footprint

80%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
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49Reviews

ConnectWise

ConnectWise Automate

Automate, formerly LabTech, is an IT management tool that helps deliver IT services at the speed of business. Our remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform provides powerful automation to discover & manage devices, monitor for problems, and automate action. Deliver streamlined reactive and proactive managed services, stop putting out fires, and start focusing on what matters most.

7.7

Composite
Score

+77

Emotional
Footprint

88%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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55Reviews

VMware, Inc.

VMware Aria Automation

VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation) automates the delivery of IT services, and enables IT to embed automation and policies within blueprints including network and security services, accelerating the delivery of production-ready infrastructure.

7.6

Composite
Score

+84

Emotional
Footprint

83%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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32Reviews

Perforce Software, Inc.

Puppet Enterprise

Puppet Enterprise makes it easy to automate the provisioning, configuration and ongoing management of your machines and the software running on them. Make rapid, repeatable changes and automatically enforce the consistency of systems and devices – across physical and virtual machines, on premise or in the cloud.

7.5

Composite
Score

+86

Emotional
Footprint

80%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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34Reviews

Broadcom Inc.

CA Workload Automation

Manage complex workload across platforms, ERP systems, business apps from mainframe to microservices.

7.1

Composite
Score

+74

Emotional
Footprint

78%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

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