Hooray! Everyone's a Winner!

IDC Canada published its "IDC MarketScape: Canadian Dedicated Private infrastructure as a Service 2014 Vendor Assessment" earlier this year. The figure is the MarketScape from that report. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture?

Before I go any further:

1. I have not had the opportunity read the IDC Marketscape report in its entirety and, as of this writing, have been limited to vendor articles and press releases. If anyone would like to send me a copy of the $15,000 document, I'd be more than happy to read it through and reconsider what you're about to read.
2. In fairness, IDC's MarketScape has a methodology which states that the "...criteria selection, weightings, and vendor scores represent well-researched IDC judgement about the market and specific vendors."

Unfortunately, I think that IDC Canada missed the mark in their analysis because not everyone can be a leader. This is like saying that every athlete that participates in the Olympics finishes in first place. The simple fact that all the vendors included in the report are grouped in the top right hand corner of the MarketScape figure suggests that the criteria used probably don't differentiate between the vendors sufficiently.

I would assume that subsequent versions of this report will differentiate between the vendors and provide more valuable information for readers by providing more comparative and contrasting analysis of the various offerings.