Los Gatos, July 13, 2009– Gartner, the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, has named Sciforma Corporation a “Visionary” company in its recently released Magic Quadrant report on IT Project and Portfolio Management products.
According to Gartner, “vendors in the Visionaries quadrant may differ from leaders in product depth or revenue strength, or they may lack the installed base and sales force of a challenger, but they often share — or originally innovated — features and traits of the leaders (for example, methodology support and APM frameworks). Like the leaders, visionaries seek to enable PPM broadly as a business process, with IT processes and skill sets being only one area addressed. Some visionaries have been more experimental with business models, and they may approach various markets more broadly, with variable packaging and pricing (for example, SaaS and phased-implementation packages). Completeness of Vision ratings can reflect innovative approaches in areas such as resource performance management, pipeline analysis, and preconfigured (but tailorable) portals for a variety of enterprise roles. Some visionaries may exhibit fertile PPM-to-ITPC or APM business opportunities within their installed bases or product potential supporting the same. Size of a visionary and financial viability may be compensated by innovative features and functions, as well as more-direct and/or responsive customer care and some influence over future product development.
These well-known Magic Quadrant evaluations help Gartner clients understand the relative positions of all vendors in a given market.
PSNext is a web-based portfolio and project management tool with more than a quarter million users worldwide. It is a full-featured and exceptionally easy to use enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution, providing extensive insight into all projects and resources across the enterprise. Entirely web-based, the product can be used regardless of geographical location, operating system, or browser, making it the ideal choice for organizations with single or mixed IT environments. More PSNext information is available online: www.sciforma.com
“We believe being labeled a ‘Visionary’ acknowledges that we have moved far beyond our roots as just another software company,” Sciforma CEO Yann Le Bihan said. “Our mission is to provide customers with a complete solution encompassing technology, service and support, while making it so powerful and compelling that, afterwards, they cannot imagine doing business without us.”
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Sciforma
Sciforma is one of the largest providers of Portfolio & Project Management software, delivering solutions to more than a quarter million users worldwide since 1982. The company offers flexible and easy-to-use multi-platform project management and project portfolio management software solutions. Businesses that have multiple projects from multiple clients (including internal customers) need to be able to prioritize efforts that will bring the best results to the company. The configurable Sciforma PPM solution provides project managers and executives the ability to analyze investments, plan capacity, manage risks, and control expenses better. For more information, visit: www.sciforma.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and on Twitter @Sciforma.
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Valerie Zeller | vzeller@sciforma.com
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