360Quadrants powered by MarketsandMarkets™, the world’s only comparison platform that combines expert analysis with crowdsourced insights has released a quadrant on Managed Services to help businesses make quicker and more informed decisions. The first release of the quadrant has IBM, Cisco, and Accenture sharing space as Visionary Leaders. 360Quadrants are generated post analysis of companies (product portfolios and business strategy). Quadrants will be updated every three months, and the position of vendors will reflect how buyers, industry experts, and other vendors rate them on different parameters.

Quadrant highlights

40+ companies offering Managed Services were analyzed of which 25 companies were shortlisted and categorized on a quadrant under Visionary Leaders, Innovators, Dynamic Differentiators, and Emerging Companies.

IBM, Cisco, Accenture, Fujitsu, Huawei, Atos, Tata Consultancy Services, HCL, and Wipro have been identified as visionary leaders as they have established product portfolios and a robust market presence and business strategy.

Dimension Data, Dataprise, Netmagic (An NTT Communications Company), and Allstream have been identified as innovators as they have focused product portfolios, but a mediocre business strategy.

Sirius Computer Solutions, OneNeck IT Solutions, Onepath, Calance, and Melbourne IT have been identified as emerging companies as they have a niche product offering but poor business strategy. Nokia Networks, AT&T, Ericsson, GTT Communications, Unisys, DXC Technology, and Subex have been recognized as dynamic differentiators.

The 360Quadrants platform provides the most granular Managed Services comparisons between vendors.

Methodology

The methodology used to rank Managed Services companies involved the use of extensive secondary research to identify key vendors by referring to annual reports, press releases, investor presentations, white papers, and various related directories and databases. 25 key vendors were shortlisted on the basis of their breadth of product offerings, organization size, and other criteria. The scores and weights for shortlisted vendors against each parameter were finalized post research. After the ratings were finalized, each vendor was placed in respective quadrants based on their score in the product offering and business strategy parameters.