SKOKIE, IL--(Marketwired - Dec 9, 2014) - Forsythe Technology, Inc., a leading North American information technology (IT) infrastructure integrator, announced today that Gartner, Inc. has positioned the company in the Visionaries Quadrant of its November 18, 2014, "Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis Applications" for the first time for its KillerIT solution.
As a cloud software subsidiary of Forsythe, KillerIT uses a data-driven application scoring methodology that enables unification of business and IT strategies while creating a Buy-Hold-Sell categorization of an enterprise's entire IT portfolio. This allows organizations to separate its assets into two groups -- the valuable and the valueless, which provides the opportunity to clean up their portfolio and prioritize its business assets.
KillerIT was also was named a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Program and Portfolio Management" by analysts Robert A. Handler, Jim Duggan and Daniel B. Stang on May 2, 2014.
"We believe this recognition from Gartner is a clear indication of the value major enterprises are finding in KillerIT's ability to move them from old IT to new IT. The process is done through asset value recognition and discussion around cost, value and risk," said Robert Dvorak, president and founder of KillerIT. "We are focused on delivering the industry's best application management cloud software to empower our clients to drive business performance."
KillerIT evaluates enterprises' asset portfolios and solves various business and IT problems by reducing costs and complexity, identifying and removing duplicate application functionally, and revealing shadow IT. This gives the enterprise the capacity to deliver new capabilities as well as the ability to prioritize assets for support and improvement decisions. This creates a roadmap for future technology acquisitions and integrations -- all while providing cost, value and risk transparency.
"Gartner is seeing a significant number of inquiries confirming that today's IT departments are moving quickly to better understand the multiple facets that make up the overall IT 'portfolio,'" the Magic Quadrant report reads. "Recent Gartner inquiry points to a marked increase in application rationalization and portfolio management maturity in IT, leading to more active integration of the application portfolio with the IT project and other IT portfolios."
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About KillerIT
KillerIT is a division of Forsythe Technology, Inc., an IT infrastructure integrator and employee-owned company with more than 40 years of experience in helping Fortune 1000 organizations solve business problems through technology. Drawing upon decades of understanding and solving client challenges, KillerIT enables business and IT to be truly unified through IT information transparency. The core of KillerIT is its unparalleled scoring methodology and value rationalization process, which helps businesses make data-driven decisions on investment, value generation, and risk mitigation. Learn more at www.killerit.com.
About Forsythe
Founded in 1971, Forsythe is one of the largest, independent IT integrators in North America, serving approximately 1,000 U.S. and Canada-based companies. Clients come to Forsythe for help optimizing cost, managing risk, improving performance and enabling innovation within their IT and data center operations to deliver greater value to their business. Forsythe's experience crosses all facets of the data center. Forsythe provides independent professional services and financial solutions, as well as IT products from all the leading IT infrastructure manufacturers and vendors, and related services.
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