200996 Resource 125361 126222 200444 1207248613184 1214505737490 Controlled Acquirers Pay A Big Premium For Best-of-Breed Vendors

All Else Being Equal, Best-Of-Breed Software Vendors Are Still The Way To Go

An empirical analysis by Updata suggests that best-of-breed enterprise infrastructure software vendors – those judged by analysts and opinion-makers (such as trade publications) as offering superior products in their space – command almost a 100% premium over non best-of-breed competitors.  Research shows that, over the long term, best-of-breed solutions, which might cost more initially, are a better financial investment.  <a title="Aberdeen Group Report - Trusted Computing" href="http://aberdeen.com/summary/report/benchmark/4639-RA-trusted-computing-tune.asp" target="_blank">The Aberdeen Group</a> recently reported that in the security software sector, best-in-class deployments have 5 times fewer security incidents than the industry average, with 3 times better containment of deployment costs, and a 10 times better audit pass rate.  The implication is that, at least in high-value spaces such as IT security, compliance management, and performance management, a better product drives significant incremental value and justifies premium pricing – both for the product and for the vendor at exit. 10 application/xml false security Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 fbartolomey 208.82.213.22 false true false false true 125361 blog blogsite/UpdataAdvisors/web