Jason Bloomberg heartily agrees. “There are still too many vendors in this space,” said the senior analyst from Waltham, Mass.-based ZapThink LLC. “There aren’t enough customers to go around.”

Bloomberg said that the customer leader among the companies in this area is, by far, AmberPoint, which boasts 30 clients. “If the leader has 30, then you know the market can’t support eight vendors,” he said. “Come on.”

Bloomberg said that Unicenter WSDM is an attractive product for large organizations deploying multiple Web services, which is the target audience for most of the companies in this market. “It’s really a soup-to-nuts product,” he said. “It’s going to be the product to beat.”

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