I didn't say it...not lately anyway (I've previously said it many many many many many times in front of customers). At least now I can prove I wasn't lying :)
IBM are the worldwide Enterprise Identity and Access Management vendor in terms of revenue share according to analyst firm IDC.
They may not be for long however. Oracle just became a very formidable opponent with their acquisition of Bharosa yesterday. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying Oracle wasn't formidable before the acquisition. But the issue now is that Bharosa does things that IBM's suite does not.
That's right. I said it. An IBM competitor has useful functionality that IBM Tivoli does not provide (here comes all the abuse from my ex-IBM colleagues).
More on this later.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Would you buy a report from this analyst?
If you're trying to sell a report and pass your company off as experts in a particular field, at least get the press release right. I'm picking out this specific statement from Research and Markets' Identity Management report:
Can you spot the problem? Netegrity is no longer a company and hasn't been for 2 years. They were acquired by CA in 2004. If you're trying to pass yourself off as credible (especially as an analyst that people may not have heard of), don't make mistakes with your pitch.
I should be fair and note that they seem to know this as evidenced by the report's table of contents but most people are time-poor and don't have time to explore details. They skim read and if something looks out of place or incorrect, they immediately write it off as a waste of time. It looks to be an interesting report at face value, but I'm certainly not going to pay money to find out...even if I did have the 3496 Euros they are charging for it.
"The report profiles 93 companies including many key and niche players worldwide such as BEA Systems, BMC Software, BNX Systems, Computer Associates, Netegrity, Courion Corporation, Entrust, Inc, IBM Tivoli, Microsoft Corp, M-Tech Information Technology, Novell, Oracle Corporation, Ping Identity Corporation, RSA Security, and Sun Microsystems, Inc."
Can you spot the problem? Netegrity is no longer a company and hasn't been for 2 years. They were acquired by CA in 2004. If you're trying to pass yourself off as credible (especially as an analyst that people may not have heard of), don't make mistakes with your pitch.
I should be fair and note that they seem to know this as evidenced by the report's table of contents but most people are time-poor and don't have time to explore details. They skim read and if something looks out of place or incorrect, they immediately write it off as a waste of time. It looks to be an interesting report at face value, but I'm certainly not going to pay money to find out...even if I did have the 3496 Euros they are charging for it.
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