This tool allows enterprises to profile their Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) requirements and generate a rank-ordered vendor shortlist from a fixed list of vendors. Vendor profiles are based on Info-Tech’s recent in-depth review of the NGFW market. The tool includes the following specific aspects of analysis:
- Variable prioritization for product suitability based on advanced features, product usability, architecture, and relative cost.
- Variable prioritization for vendor suitability based on vendor viability, vendor focus on NGFW and on the SME market, breadth of the vendor support organization, and size and strength of the channel.
- Weightings to adjust the contribution of various suitability factors to overall vendor ranking.
- A self-sorted ranking list of NGFW vendors based on user input.
Narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy enterprise requirements before sending out RFPs and scheduling vendor demonstrations.