eIQviews

Yes, that’s right. Our friends at Gartner have published their 2009 Magic Quadrant on Security Information and Event Management for Gartner clients. eIQnetworks is placed in the visionary quadrant.

Mark Nicolett hijacked John Pescatore’s blog for a day to clarify how to use the MQ. In the post, he describes leaders and visionaries: “Vendors that are in the leaders or visionary quadrant meet the major functional requirements of the broad SIEM market.“

The difference between a leader and a visionary? The post states: “Visionary vendors have scored lower in ability to execute (most often due to smaller company size or installed base or growth rate) as compared to leaders.” eIQ has been addressing the enterprise space for a touch over two years (as compared to the other leaders and visionaries in the space for 7-10 years), so we are pleased with our placement.

Yet, Mark Nicolett cautions customers against reading too much into the placements in the chart.

The written research is intended as a starting point for a product selection decision. We really encourage Gartner clients to use our inquiry process to augment your use of the published research. The idea is to get on the phone with us so that we can provide more specific advice based on the client’s environment.

Being a former analyst, I totally agree with Mark’s assessment here. It’s easy to just look at the chart and pick only the leaders to engage with and be done with it. But it would be the wrong thing to do, since visionaries usually bring a different perspective and set of capabilities to the table. At least eIQ does.