Enterprises are looking to desktop management solutions as a way of increasing IT-business alignment and reducing management and support costs. In this brief, Datamonitor presents extensive end-user sentiment data and analyses the demand for desktop management solutions and their deployment patterns, as well as providing practical recommendations to vendors who are active in this market.

Scope

Assesses the current uptake of desktop management technologies across various geographies and vertical markets. Analyzes enterprise trends in desktop management outsourcing, across geographies and enterprise size-bands. Discovers which desktop management vendors have the greatest mindshare and how this mindshare varies in different markets.

Highlights

With the exception of security management, all technologies within desktop management have similar levels of penetration that hover around 55%. Datamonitor believes this is an indication that desktop management is generally deployed as a suite or as part of wider IT systems management deployments. Comparing desktop management penetration and investment plans in different countries shows a marked variation between them. Interestingly, this variation also tracks IT systems management penetrations levels. Desktop management provides a significant source of information on IT operations and therefore most enterprises would prefer to keep it in house. Additionally, desktop management solutions have significant control over the enterprise IT infrastructure and many organizations are understandably reluctant to give up this control.

Reasons to Purchase

Identify key geographies, enterprise size bands and vertical markets in terms of investments in desktop management. Optimise go-to-market strategies through revealing enterprises' investment drivers and deployment preferences. Improve your market communication and protect your brand equity by learning about enterprises' perception of the leading desktop management vendors.