Wave Report

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Client Management Suites, Q2 2012

Symantec And CA Technologies Lead, With LANDesk Software, IBM, And Microsoft Close Behind

May 16th, 2012
David Brodeur-Johnson, Principal Analyst
David Brodeur-Johnson Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Christopher Voce , Kelley Mak

Summary

In Forrester's 62-criteria evaluation of client management suite vendors, we identified the 10 significant solution providers in this category — BMC Software, CA, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, LANDesk, Microsoft, Novell, Numara Software, and Symantec — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report details our findings about how each vendor measures up and plots where they stand in relation to each other, to help infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals select the right partner for their hybrid physical, virtual, and mobile client management needs.

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