Network Diagramming Channel Feature

New Research Reports Shed Light on Network Performance Management

By Anil Sharma
TMCnet Contributor

TRAC Research, an analyst and research firm specializing in IT performance management, has introduced two new research publishing mediums, Hub Market Reports and Research Self-Service Instrument.

Officials with TRAC Research said that these interactive publishing platforms allow IT and business users to access research findings specific to their individual use cases of IT management technologies, as well as to generate their own customized reports based on their particular requirements.

According to company officials, both of these formats are enabled by survey data from TRAC's IT management community and the research findings span across areas such as network and application performance management, Web performance, WAN optimization, systems management, cloud and virtualization management and IT performance testing.

"Based on our current research, IT users are not necessarily looking to find out what vendor is a market leader or what is the best technology in the market, but what solutions and capabilities can be the most effective in their specific usage scenarios,” said Bojan Simic, president and principal analyst, TRAC Research in a statement.

“What truly defines relevant and actionable research is the ability to allow IT users to access research findings the same way they go about evaluating IT management technologies — based on the fit for their particular environment. TRAC's new interactive research formats allow organizations to select their own paths when accessing the research findings and gives them tools to generate custom reports with recommendations that can be truly actionable,” Simic said.

Simic said that the company’s new research tools represent an industry shift from “matrix-based” market landscape reports and give more power to readers of IT research by letting them create their own views into research findings while making research methodology and underlining data more transparent.

Company officials claimed that TRAC's Hub reports are industry-first market landscape publications that are using an interactive layout to help IT users understand what products and capabilities are best positioned to meet their individual needs.

The first Hub report will be published on Sep. 10.

TRAC's self-service research Instrument is a Web-based, Java-enabled application that allows users to access research data behind TRAC's reports, customize the data views based on more than 200 variables and generate custom reports.

The portal will be available on Dec. 15.

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