Sumerian: Leading Analyst Firm Names Sumerian "Cool Vendor" for IT Operations Management

Sumerian, a provider of intelligent IT analytics to some of the world’s most innovative companies, today announced that it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management” report by Gartner, Inc. Authored by Gartner Research Vice Presidents Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Paolo Malinverno, Jess Thompson and Yefim V. Natis, the report featured a select group of vendors who were recognized as innovative, impactful and intriguing within the operations technology community.

According to the report, IT operations management is a market that has seen astounding innovation in recent years and is becoming an increasingly important area of focus for business leaders. The report notes, “To improve business intelligence for IT, it has become necessary to use IT analytics to solve routine, yet critical, issues such as capacity planning, service management reporting and application performance."

“We are delighted and honored to be named a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Gartner, Inc.,” said Calum Smeaton, CEO of Sumerian. “This report clearly signifies the mounting importance of deploying intelligent analytics in order to align IT to support business objectives. Our goal at Sumerian is to give IT leaders the actionable insight they need to manage costs, target investment and improve performance.”

Sumerian’s IQ services capture, model and analyze data from existing systems and use it to deliver high impact, expert insight into how effectively IT is aligned to drive efficiencies and support business growth. Sumerian creates accurate models of infrastructure resources and the crucial inter-dependencies between them and the applications, business processes and users they support. By combining sophisticated modeling with expert analysis, Sumerian delivers quantified insight to inform key operational and strategic decisions, from ongoing performance and capacity management to strategic “what if?” scenario modeling.

About Sumerian

Sumerian gives global organizations the insight to make better, faster decisions and align IT accurately to drive business performance. The company’s unique approach combines a powerful software-based analytics platform with human intelligence to provide savvy IT leaders the information they need to deliver efficiencies and business growth. Leveraging its expertise in Financial Services and proven deployments with high profile, global companies who rely on complex IT environments, Sumerian delivers the transparency and decision-making framework to optimize existing IT investments for future opportunities.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather the criteria highlights interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

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