Market Perspectives

We are happy to share some insights about Micro Focus drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

We recently published three Ventana Research 2023 Data Platforms Value Indexes, which evaluate technology vendors and products that provide individual and combined analytic and operational data platform support. At Ventana Research, we continue to believe that, for most use cases, there is a clear choice between analytic and operational data platforms to best meet your organization’s needs. We developed three technology assessment and buyers’ guides to focus on overall data platform requirements as well as specific analytic data platform and operational data platform use cases.

In all of our Value Indexes, we utilize a structured research methodology built on evaluation categories designed to reflect real-world criteria and derived from RFP responses and a vendor selection process for analytics and business intelligence. For each of the Value Indexes, we evaluated Micro Focus and other vendors in seven categories: five relevant to the product — Adaptability, Capability, Manageability, Reliability and Usability — and two related to the vendor — TCO/ROI and Validation. To arrive at the Value Index rating for a given vendor, we weighted each category to reflect its relative importance in an RFP process, with the weightings based on our experience and on data derived from our market research, including our Benchmark Research on Analytics and Data.

Micro Focus offers a broad portfolio of software, spanning IT operations, application delivery, application modernization, security, and data and analytics. The company entered the analytic data platform sector in 2017 when it picked up Vertica via its merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software division. As Micro Focus is focused specifically on analytic data workloads, it was only included in our Analytic Data Platforms Value Index.

In the Analytic Data Platforms Value Index, Micro Focus was categorized as an Innovative Vendor, ranking seventh overall in this Value Index evaluation. It ranked seventh in Product Experience, where it was designated a Value Index Leader in the Capability category. It ranked eighth in Customer Experience and ranked best in the TCO/ROI category. Its overall performance was impacted by its lower rankings in the Usability, Manageability and Adaptability categories, which represent 40% of the weighting in the overall Value Index.

Our assessment finds that Micro Focus could perform better in Usability, where it ranked 13th, with the potential to make improvements related to accessibility and user experience. In Capability, where it ranked third, there remain opportunities to make improvements with additional data architect functionality.

This assessment was based on Micro Focus’ data platform products generally available as of September 30, 2022.

Organizations should evaluate their data platform requirements for operational and analytic workloads to ensure the existing products and vendors are meeting their needs. If their current data platforms are not satisfying those requirements, they should consider whether Micro Focus can help meet their needs.

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