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DATA QUADRANT REPORT
EMOTIONAL FOOTPRINT REPORT
Cloud Management

What is Cloud Management Platforms?

Cloud Systems Management platforms integrate multiple enterprise-level cloud computing services into one hybrid cloud. Features include cloud analytics and reporting, cloud integration and migration, and capacity management.

Common Features

  • Application Release Automation
  • Performance Monitoring Management
  • Cloud Analytics and Reporting
  • Capacity Management
  • Orchestration and Workflow Management
  • Cloud Integration
  • Cloud Migration
  • Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity
  • Cloud SLA Management Governance
  • Self Service Cloud Services
  • Configuration Validation

Our Methodology

8.1

Composite Score

Vendors are ranked by the composite score, which is comprised of feature, capability, relationship, and overall satisfaction scores while factoring in the volume and recency of reviews.

8.1

CX Score

The CX score is comprised of the emotional footprint metrics, balanced by metrics related to the overall value of the software, while factoring in the volume and recency of reviews.

Data Quadrant

SoftwareReviews collects user insights that help organizations more effectively choose software that meets their needs, measure business value, and improve selection.

Rankings, results, and positioning on SoftwareReviews reports are based entirely on end-user feedback solicited from a proprietary online survey engine.

Leaders

Products that resonate strongest in the market, balancing features with a great user experience.

Product Innovators

Products that emphasize product features, gaining strong recommendations from their customers.

Service Stars

Products that emphasize a good user experience and build strong relationships with customers.

Challengers

Products that are strong performers in some areas and trail in others. Often up-and-coming vendors.

Emotional Footprint

SoftwareReviews collects user insights that help organizations more effectively choose software that meets their needs, measure business value, and improve selection.

Rankings, results, and positioning on SoftwareReviews reports are based entirely on end-user feedback solicited by a proprietary online survey engine.

Champions

Products that resonate highly with users at an emotional level. Users have specific emotional views towards these products like love, trust, and effectiveness.

Relationship Builders

Products that are bulletproof and focus on fulfilling core needs with steady support, not the latest feature.

Value Players

Products that succeed on cost and service effectiveness with users.

Contenders

Products seen as good in some areas and trailing in others. Users look to these for innovation at the edge but aren't fully committed.

Top Cloud Management (CM) Platforms

2025 Data Quadrant Awards

2024 Emotional Footprint Awards

At SoftwareReviews, we take pride in recognizing excellence. Each year, we present the Data Quadrant Awards to top-performing software products based solely on authentic user reviews, without any paid placements or analyst opinions. These awards highlight software products that excel in terms of features, vendor capabilities, and customer relationships, earning them the highest overall rankings.

At SoftwareReviews, we take pride in recognizing excellence. Each year, we present the Emotional Footprint Awards to top-performing software products based solely on authentic user reviews, without any paid placements or analyst opinions. These awards shine a spotlight on software vendors who excel in crafting and nurturing strong customer relationships.

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AWS Systems Manager

Data Quadrant Champion
9.0
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Microsoft Azure Arc

Data Quadrant Champion
8.8
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Vmware Cloud Foundation Operations

8.4
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Red Hat Openshift

8.4
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BMC Multi-Cloud

8.3
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ServiceNow Cloud Accelerate

8.2
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Amazon Kinesis

8.1
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AWS Systems Manager

Emotional Footprint Champion
9.4
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Microsoft Azure Arc

Emotional Footprint Champion
9.1
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Vmware Cloud Foundation Operations

Emotional Footprint Champion
8.8
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Amazon Kinesis

8.6
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Red Hat Openshift

8.6
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Oracle Hybrid Cloud

8.4
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ServiceNow Cloud Accelerate

8.3
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Cloud Management Data Quadrant
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Top Cloud Management Platforms 2025

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager
Amazon

AWS Systems Manager

Composite Score
9.1 /10
CX Score
9.3 /10
87 Reviews
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AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Fair
  • Reliable
Badge Winner
Badge Winner
Microsoft Azure Arc
Microsoft Azure Arc
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Arc

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10
147 Reviews
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Manage your applications and services in multi-cloud environments. Azure Arc helps you make the most of the cloud by providing tools to develop and operate cloud-native apps on any platform.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Helps Innovate
  • Respectful
  • Security Protects
Badge Winner
Badge Winner
Vmware Cloud Foundation Operations
Vmware Cloud Foundation Operations
Broadcom

Vmware Cloud Foundation Operations

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10
30 Reviews
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VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (formerly VMware Aria Operations) enable proactive IT operations, management, logging, and diagnostics management. Automate and streamline IT management with full-stack visibility from physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure, including virtual machines (VMs) and containers, to the apps they support.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Badge Winner
Badge Winner
Red Hat Openshift
Red Hat Openshift
Red Hat

Red Hat Openshift

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.8 /10
57 Reviews
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Red Hat® OpenShift® is a unified platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale. Work smarter and faster with a complete set of services for bringing apps to market on your choice of infrastructure.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies
BMC Multi-Cloud
BMC Multi-Cloud
BMC Software

BMC Multi-Cloud

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10
16 Reviews
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IT and business owners are often surprised and unprepared for the large monthly or annual expenses from cloud providers. With buyers of public cloud services throughout the organization, it is challenging for IT to keep costs under control.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
ServiceNow Cloud Accelerate
ServiceNow Cloud Accelerate
ServiceNow

ServiceNow Cloud Accelerate

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10
36 Reviews
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Speed cloud adoption with workflows that automate everyday cloud service delivery and continuous governance.

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Pros

  • Fair
  • Altruistic
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Security Protects
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon

Amazon Kinesis

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10
41 Reviews
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Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application. Amazon Kinesis enables you to process and analyze data as it arrives and respond instantly instead of having to wait until all your data is collected before the processing can begin.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time
  • Security Protects
  • Trustworthy
Badge Winner
Oracle Hybrid Cloud
Oracle Hybrid Cloud
Oracle

Oracle Hybrid Cloud

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10
44 Reviews
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Oracle Hybrid Cloud is a suite of autonomous management services that eliminate the human effort associated with traditional solutions for monitoring, managing and securing applications and infrastructure. Provide customers with the flexibility to choose their infrastructure based on their workload needs with Oracle Hybrid Cloud.

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Pros

  • Fair
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Security Protects

Products below are ineligible for awards due to insufficient recent reviews

Cloudcheckr
Cloudcheckr
CloudCheckr Inc

Cloudcheckr

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10
6 Reviews
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The CloudCheckr Cloud Management Platform (CMP) provides full visibility and control to reduce costs, improve cybersecurity posture, and automate critical tasks to accelerate cloud agility for modern enterprises and service providers.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

Cons

  • Slower Product Innovation
  • Less Reliable
  • Less Inspiring
Abiquo Cloud Management Architecture
Abiquo Cloud Management Architecture
Abiquo

Abiquo Cloud Management Architecture

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10
8 Reviews
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Abiquo Cloud Management Architecture is an online service to manage your public cloud accounts, giving you consistency, security and control. It uses the power of Abiquo's successful Cloud Orchestration product, used by many leading service providers to offer award winning true hybrid cloud services using on-premise hypervisors such as VMware ESX, Hyper-V, KVM and Oracle.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
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