Gartner Vendor Insight Report

What is a Vendor Insight Report?

A Vendor Insight Report helps CIOs determine whether to continue investing in, or make new strategic investments in, select complex vendors. The Vendor Insight Report complements market and product research with a high-level overview of the vendor and its top strengths and challenges.

A small number of very large IT vendors with sufficient volume of client interest, portfolio breath and market impact are selected to be evaluated in a Vendor Insight Report.

What is our vendor selection criteria?

Vendor selection is based on a methodology that includes regular review of our client buying-decision needs to focus on a small number (25 – 35) of key providers. It uses a blend of four core metrics for assignment, averaged over two years to avoid spikes in data:

  • Demand metrics — Gartner clients inquiry and gartner.com search
  • Coverage metrics  — Inclusion in Magic Quadrants and other Gartner research 

We reserve the right to choose additional providers for strategic reasons, such as criticality to our clients’ businesses.

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