Server Monitoring/Performance Management software can be defined as a software application which attempts to help minimize total cost of ownership and/or optimize performance, of servers, by monitoring and managing them
 

The target audience for this report includes corporate IT, corporate IT purchasing, IT consulting and vendor product marketing professionals
 

Information contained in this report concerning Server Monitoring/Performance Management softwarelist pricing, discounting practices and Total Cost of iImplementation (TCI) was obtained through public domain sources, and telephone interviews with the vendors themselves, and with persons familiar with actual Server Monitoring/Performance Management deals, May-July, 2004
 

The vendors taken into consideration for Total Cost of Implementation are
 

	Altiris
	BMC

	CA
	HP

IBM

Mercury Interactive

NetIQ

Quest

This report presents list pricing for all Server Monitoring/Performance Management software for the 8 vendors taken into consideration, plus for Sun Microsystems, for which no case studies could be carried out, representing over 1,000 distinct prices
 

List pricing includes
 

	Product name
	Whether can be purchased separately
	License type (perpetual or term)
	License unit (Server, Processor, Desktop, etc.)
	Price by unit, or unit range

List pricing also includes detailed analysis of each vendor’s Maintenance/Support offering, and pricing
 

This report then goes on to summarize the essential aspects of 30 case studies of actual enterprise implementations of Server Monitoring/Performance Management software
 

In particular, Average Total Cost of Implementation is analyzed for each vendor, composed of
 

	Average Total License cost
	Average Maintenance/Support cost (for the first year)
	Average Initial Development Internal Human Resources cost
	Average Consulting cost
	Average Training cost
	Average Initial Deployment Internal Human Resources cost

Total Cost of Implementation averaged US$ 5,288 per managed server, although Vendor 1 was by far the lowest at US$ 156 per managed server, followed by Vendor 2 at US$ 278 per managed server (View the sample excerpt)
 

And Total Duration of Initial Development & Deployment averaged 0.47 days per managed server, whereas Vendor 1 exhibited by far the shortest at 0.07 days, followed by Vendor 2 at 0.08 days and Vendor 3 at 0.09 days, while Vendor 8 was by far the longest, at 1.84 days (View the sample excerpt)