Well, what a surprise!
Hot on the heels of HP winning last year’s award for the vendor that was replaced most often by Nimsoft (they came second this year), this year’s winner is Microsoft.
That may come as a surprise to some (and was initially to myself as well) but, when you think about it, Microsoft are dumping SCOM into every account that they can, and many times as part of an unrelated ELA. So, customers get SCOM whether they want it or not, then they try and use it and realize that it’s time to buy a serious solution.
HP came a close second, and if we looked at the $$ value of maintenance that we replaced then I’m sure HP would have won. Some very large replacements – customers telling us that HP support is very poor.
Interestingly, while we didn’t replace IBM that many times (although we did some VERY high profile replacements), we actually competed and beat IBM more times than any other of the Big-4.
But….the real story is that over half our new customers in 2009 were upgrading from low end solutions. Open Source, Nagios, Solarwinds etc. These customers that “hit the wall” with these limited solutions and yet are looking to grow their business…..Nimsoft is a perfect home.
For MSPs, Dell took the award with 7 large replacements of its Silverback platform.
Reducing cost, increasing capabilities, moving to cloud, scaling your business, growing revenues….Nimsoft is your management solutions provider.
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