The critical capabilities is a focused assessment of only current vendor offerings. While the magic quadrant looks at vendors holistically in a market (product, sales, marketing, strategy, innovation. Geography, etc.) and includes both current and future strategy, the “CC” is purely what the vendor has in market today (April 12, 2023 actually).
The research assesses nine single-vendor SASE offerings from eight vendors, across 12 capabilities and three use cases. An offering may consist of one or multiple products, but it must be a coherent offering that a user can buy (and which the vendor regularly sells).
Most vendors in this research integrate multiple products/consoles to deliver their offerings, although three vendors (Palo Alto, Cato and Versa) provide a single, unified product.
Vendor rankings across the use cases vary substantially. For example, there is a separate vendor at the top and bottom of each use case.
Overall, there are only a small number of single-vendor SASE offerings, many of which are immature. There are notable gaps around features, unified management and policy, and ease of use. We expect offerings to mature over the next 24 months to the point at which more offerings are available and a higher percentage of offerings are well-architected.
My gartner.com colleagues Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Forest, Nat Smith, CISSP, MBA and John Watts have published the Critical Capabilities for Single Vendor SASE. The Critical Capabilities form a key counterpart to the Magic Quadrant (and I was happy to work on the Magic Quadrant for Single Vendor SASE that published last week!), evaluating the technical capabilities of each vendors solution (or solutions) against key end-user use cases.
If you are evaluating #SASE and #SSE, this is a key document to review. You can access it at: https://lnkd.in/gqBumWCc (Gartner subscription required)
Congratulations to the authoring team on getting this published. It was a pleasure to watch them work.
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