BaaS providers deliver data protection as a service by hosting the backup software and the primary backup repository in privately operated or public cloud data centers. The backup infrastructure, including backup software and backup servers and storage, is managed by the BaaS provider. Customers are still responsible for implementing backup policies and performing recovery tasks, but they are not responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and operation of the backup system. BaaS providers primarily protect VMs, databases and files in addition to SaaS applications such as Microsoft 365 and Salesforce. Some vendors also offer backup of endpoints.
Gartner defines configure, price and quote (CPQ) applications as software that enables sales organizations to automate and optimize the creation of quotes and capture of orders. A CPQ application is a sales tool that captures the new goods and services a customer wants to buy or the changes a customer wants to make to existing goods and services. While generally focused on assisted sales channels, CPQ capabilities such as product configuration and pricing must be shared with the self-service commerce channel. The new purchases and changes must be priced and a binding contract must be formed with the customer before sending an order to downstream fulfillment systems.
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The DRaaS market provides for the recovery of enterprise applications at another location in the event of a disaster. The provider can deliver the service as a fully managed, assisted recovery or as a self-service offering. The service should be marketed and sold as a stand-alone, industrialized offering and include, at a minimum: - An on-demand recovery cloud for planned tests, exercises and declarations - Server image and production data replication to the cloud - Automated failover and failback between production and the target cloud environment - Recovery time SLAs
Gartner defines enterprise backup and recovery software solutions as technology that captures a point-in-time copy (backup) of enterprise data in on-premises, hybrid, multicloud and software as a service (SaaS) environments. These solutions write this data to one or more secondary storage targets for the primary purpose of recovering it in case of loss. Protecting and recovering business application data, irrespective of the underlying infrastructure type and its location, is more important than ever. As enterprises move toward more complex environments that include large and expansive amounts of business-critical data, enterprise backup and recovery software solutions protect these workloads, whether they reside in on-premises, hybrid, multicloud or software as a service (SaaS) environments. These solutions are vital to organizations’ ability to recover data following events that cause it to become inaccessible. Whether such an event is accidental, malicious or environmental, organizations use these solutions to recover and restore access to the affected data accurately and efficiently. Solutions must offer effective capabilities to simplify the management of data protection across complex enterprise environments. They must also ensure reliable recovery not just from accidental or operational errors but also from data loss arising from constantly changing threats, and expedite and orchestrate data recovery responses to traditional disaster and ransomware events.
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Infrastructure monitoring tools capture the health and resource utilization of IT infrastructure components, no matter where they reside (e.g., in a data center, at the edge, infrastructure as a service [IaaS] or platform as a service [PaaS] in the cloud). This enables I&O leaders to monitor and collate the availability and resource utilization data of physical and virtual entities — including servers, containers, network devices, database instances, hypervisors and storage. These tools collect data in real time and perform historical data analysis or trending of the elements they monitor.
Knowledge Management (KM) Software enables a wide variety of operations around documents and files to optimize access and flow of information within an organization. Knowledge Management Software is compatible with multiple file types like documents, presentations, audio-video files, etc. to enable all these operations. Enterprises leverage the software to create a centralized repository of information that traditionally existed in silos. The primary function of the software is to store, retrieve, and share information across the organization in a convenient, safe, and reliable manner. Some Knowledge Management Software also provides some extended functionalities like – File Edit history, access management, and content editing capabilities.
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Gartner defines SaaS management platforms (SMP) as software tools that aim to help organizations discover, manage, optimize and automate the SaaS application life cycle from one centralized console. Core SMP capabilities include discovery, cost optimization, employee self-service via an application store, insights to increase adoption and automation of onboarding/offboarding activities. As SaaS adoption accelerates, IT leaders struggle to discover and support SaaS-hosted applications in accordance with company, market or geographic policies and regulations. Increased SaaS costs — combined with limited visibility into the entire SaaS portfolio (including unapproved SaaS) and high levels of overdeployed and underconsumed licenses — result in significant financial, operational and cybersecurity risk.
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Software asset management (SAM) tools are solutions that provide automation to support tasks required to produce and maintain compliance with independent software vendor (ISV) license use rights, while improving an organization’s ability to proactively identify and optimize software risk and spend. SAM tools provide in-depth software asset analysis through: - Conducting discovery - Analyzing software license entitlements - Automating the collection of software consumption data - Establishing ISV effective license position (ELP) - Governing software assets - Optimizing software value delivery - Sharing information with other tools and stakeholders
Gartner defines a unified endpoint management (UEM) tool as a software-based tool that provides agent and agentless management of computers and mobile devices through a single console. Modern UEM tools: Provide a user-centric view of devices across device platforms; Offer agent and/or agentless management through native Windows endpoint, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS controls. Offer agentless mobile management through native Apple iOS/iPad OS and Google Android controls; Aggregate telemetry and signals from identities, apps, connectivity and devices to inform policy and related actions; Aggregate and analyze technology performance and employee experience data; Integrate with identity, security and remote access tools to support zero-trust access and contextual authentication, vulnerability, policy, and configuration and data management; Manage nontraditional devices, including Internet of Things (IoT) devices, wearables and rugged handhelds.