ASG Positioned in Leader Quadrant of Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools
ASG-Rochade™ Enables Customers to Better Align Enterprise Architecture with Business Requirements
NAPLES, Fla. on 28 February 2005
ASG, an enterprise software and professional services provider to Global 5000 companies, announced today that Gartner, Inc. has positioned ASG in the “Leader” quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools, 4Q04, which was published January 6, 2005.
Gartner Inc.’s Magic Quadrant positions vendors in a particular market segment based on their vision and ability to execute that vision. According to Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant Leaders are vendors that are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.
“We are very pleased that for the past several years ASG’s significant efforts and investments in the Metadata Management space have been recognized by Gartner, Inc.,” said ASG President and CEO Arthur L. Allen. “ASG will continue to enhance its integrated, enterprise-wide Metadata Management solution through the development of products that resolve specific, business-critical issues such as Enterprise Architecture.”
In the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools, 4Q04, Gartner, Inc. states that the enterprise architecture tool market is growing rapidly as vendors enhance their products to support an increasingly sophisticated set of requirements.
ASG’s integrated Metadata Management solution – including ASG-Rochade™ and ASG-becubic™ – inventories, references, and documents all business, technical, functional, and data elements in an information system. Leveraging market-leading repository technology, ASG’s EA tools provide a consistent, comprehensive understanding of enterprise architectures and key components, enabling managers and architects to appropriately align EA with business goals, analyze the impact of new technology and business requirements, and initiate change in today’s dynamic IT environment.
By capturing EA artifacts from any tool and environment and ensuring their currency and consistency through versioning, configuration management, and a unique automatic updating system, ASG’s EA tools easily associate architectures with the business goals they support (and vice-versa), essentially tracing any vertical or horizontal relationship. Requested knowledge for end user visualization is provided in a variety of report formats, including industry-standard and custom graphical or textual views.
About the Gartner Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About ASG
Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held global enterprise software and professional services firm that provides a full range of software solutions in the Metadata Management, Security Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Information & Data Management, Performance Management, and Infrastructure Management arenas. ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA, with more than 45 offices serving the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia/Pacific. For more information, visit ASG at www.asg.com.
