EfficientIP Named a Value Leader in the 2025 EMA DDI Radar

EfficientIP has been recognized as a Value Leader in the 2025 EMA^TM Radar for DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI) – the highest possible ranking. This distinguished position reflects EfficientIP’s strength in delivering innovative, scalable, and cost-efficient DDI solutions that empower enterprises to simplify, automate, and secure their networks. Read on to discover why the EMA DDI Radar is an essential guide to understanding the current DDI market landscape – and why EfficientIP stands out as a frontrunner.

EMA DDI Radar Explained

The EMA DDI Radar is an independent, data-driven benchmark for enterprises evaluating the core technologies that enable modern network communications. Focusing on DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI), the report assesses twelve products from ten vendors, analyzing each across five key categories: Cost Advantage, Deployment and Administration, Architecture and Integration, Functionality, and Vendor Strength.

The report combines quantitative performance metrics with qualitative insights from vendor briefings and customer references to produce an authoritative view of how DDI vendors are supporting enterprises’ evolving network needs.

The Radar’s unique framework plots vendors on a visual matrix according to Product Strength (a combination of functionality and architecture) and Cost-Efficiency (a blend of cost and ease of deployment). Vendors positioned in the upper-right quadrant represent the highest-value solutions – delivering exceptional technical capability alongside strong operational efficiency. EfficientIP was ranked highly in both fields, earning it the position of Value Leader, with an overall placement above all other DDI technology vendors.

Understanding The Evolving DDI Market Landscape

DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (IPAM) are core networking services that underpin modern network communications and simplify network management. Although the DDI market is mature, it is evolving in response to emerging trends. The widespread adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures has heightened the importance of these services, introducing greater complexity, particularly in IP address space and multi-vendor DNS environments. This shift is driving innovation in the DDI market and creating new requirements, including:

• Multi-vendor overlay management, scalability, and performance: innovative DDI technology needs to support and consolidate overlay management of third-party DNS and DHCP services across heterogeneous environments while scaling with growing networks and ensuring performance.
• Security features: organizations expect built-in DNS security including DNS firewall, DNSSEC, role-based access control (RBAC), and DDoS protection among others, to safeguard applications, users, and data across on-premises and cloud networks.
• Workflow automation:  IT teams increasingly expect DDI solutions to support automated workflows, especially for network and cloud asset discovery, automated IP address allocation, and DNS and DHCP configuration and deployment.
• APIs and ecosystem Integration: extensive DDI data paves the way for establishing a trusted Network Source of Truth (NSoT) which, when exposed through APIs, enables network engineering teams to seamlessly integrate their IT and cloud orchestration platforms, ITSM, and security tools for end-to-end ecosystem automation.

Why EfficientIP is Recognized as a Leader Spearheading the DDI Industry

The 2025 EMA DDI Radar positions EfficientIP as a Value Leader, the highest category of recognition possible in the report. An exceptional balance between product strength, deployment, administration, and cost-efficiency places EfficientIP in the upper-right quadrant of the Radar, positioning it as one of the most comprehensive and forward-looking DDI solutions on the market.

The in-depth evaluation highlights the strengths of the SOLIDserver™ DDI suite, including its unified management of DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management, its extensive feature set like DNS security, and high scalability, supporting any deployment model across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Outstanding Results from the EMA DDI Radar

DDI Excellence Anchored in IP Address Management

EfficientIP’s fully featured IP Address Management (IPAM) functionality was rated among the best across all vendors evaluated. This capability is a foundation of DDI-enabled Network Source of Truth (NSoT) and enables complete DDI lifecycle management and real-time synchronization between IPAM, DNS, and DHCP.  This ensures consistency and eliminates configuration conflicts such as duplicate IP addresses or overlapping subnets.

The reporting and visualization capabilities built on these IPAM foundations further strengthen operational visibility. EMA notes that SOLIDserver™ dashboards and reports are highly customizable to the user’s priorities, enabling teams to easily monitor DNS and DHCP performance, track network health, and support network compliance efforts through proactive analysis.

Building the Network Source of Truth

EMA underscores EfficientIP’s ability to extend DDI beyond traditional IP management to serve as a true network source of truth. The Cloud Observer, NetChange, and Network Object Manager components of SOLIDserver™ allow customers to respectively discover, model, and visualize a wide range of network inventory data. This includes VPCs, VMs, and other devices and objects critical to network operations.

This data-rich approach supports essential use cases such as network design, troubleshooting, and automation. EMA notes that EfficientIP’s NSoT model is highly structured and flexible, enabling the addition of custom metadata to objects and ensuring data remains both accurate and actionable. Continuous reconciliation between intended configurations and real-world environments ensures the NSoT is always up to date, driving scalable network automation through a Network Automation Hub.

SOLIDserver™ APIs were rated Outstanding, providing 100% feature coverage and unlocking seamless end-to-end integration with third-party systems. Combined with tools such as Cloud Observer and NetChange IPLocator, these APIs extend the discovery and unified visibility capabilities that are increasingly vital across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. 

Scalable Architecture and Operational Efficiency

Architectural design was another major factor behind its leadership position. EMA rated the platform Outstanding for both IPAM and DNS scalability, and for its scale-out architecture. These features enable it to support large, distributed, and high-availability deployments with ease through.

EfficientIP’s SmartArchitecture^TM templates were also praised for their ability to simplify policy-driven DNS and DHCP automation across geographically distributed networks. This combination of scalability, flexibility, and intelligent automation reduces administrative burden while maintaining performance consistency across the enterprise.

The Radar also rated maintenance and support costs as Outstanding, and deployment flexibility and timelines as Strong to Outstanding. Together, these factors contribute to one of the most competitive total cost of ownership profiles in the study.

Key Takeaways

EfficientIP’s recognition as a Value Leader in the 2025 EMA DDI Radar validates its continued innovation and strong execution. The SOLIDserver™ suite stands out for its powerful IPAM, scalable architecture, and comprehensive Network Source of Truth capabilities. By unifying visibility, automation, and security across hybrid and multi-cloud networks, EfficientIP delivers one of the industry’s most efficient and forward-looking DDI platforms.

The Radar makes it clear that EfficientIP is a trusted partner helping organizations achieve greater network resilience, agility, and control across every environment.