Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 53 → 61 of 64
2 categories · RankedHCL BigFix
59Judge labels
1First choices
17Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Patching for enterprise buyers
Rank 20 of 85 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business67 of 69
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market20 of 85
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise10 of 96
2%33 labels
accepted challenger
In patching · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named HCL BigFix for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patch management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 20 of 85 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus at 29% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Unified endpoint management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 23 of 53 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Intune at 39% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, HCL BigFix held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Patching · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 23 → 20 of 79
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 19 → 10 of 94
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patching | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 23 → 20 of 85 |
| UEM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 23 of 53, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated HCL BigFix across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated HCL BigFix across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct12 labels1
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative22 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative15 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative59 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“BigFix is a powerhouse for automated, multi-OS patching and continuous compliance.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · UEM · comparative prompt · alternative
“I'd recommend Patch My PC or HCL BigFix as the third-party patching layer” GPT-5.4 mini · Patching · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Need heavy systems management at scale? Look at HCL BigFix.” GPT-5.4 mini · UEM · comparative prompt · alternative
“Large Enterprise: HCL BigFix (for scale)” MiniMax M2.5 · Patching · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Mixed reviews, heavy admin burden... steep learning curve and complex architecture” DeepSeek V4 Flash · UEM · negative prompt · soft negative
“High cost/complexity” Grok 4.20 · Patching · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as HCL BigFix, over the 59 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HCL BigFix was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as HCL BigFix, over the 59 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HCL BigFix was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named HCL BigFix. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 58 of the 59 answers that named HCL BigFix and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
action1.com28
learn.g2.com27
heimdalsecurity.com25
ninjaone.com25
motadata.com24
acronis.com22
automox.com22
expertinsights.com21
manageengine.com21
comparitech.com19
234 of the 234 domain citations in answers naming HCL BigFix came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
hcl-software.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, HCL BigFix takes 0% of first choices and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
hcl-software.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, HCL BigFix takes 0% of first choices and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus takes 29%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “patch management tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “patch management tools”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 320 a month (“hcl bigfix”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 15 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 49,667 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 13,770 · 431 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,529
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 20 of 85 in patching
Segment leader
29%
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 59 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 58 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on hcl-software.com
12,905
subdomains included
Content
2,233
counted in the table below
Documentation
10,000
Product · Integration
77 · 6
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,870 | 47 | 2026-09-29 | ITSM, DAST | |
| News or press | 166 | 1 | 2026-09-01 | ASPM, UEM | |
| Report or ebook | 54 | 1 | 2026-09-15 | DAST | |
| Conference or event | 45 | 0 | 2026-06-08 | SAST, SCA | |
| Case study | 25 | 1 | 2026-08-26 | ETL | |
| Comparison | 23 | 4 | 2026-09-10 | ITSM, ITAM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 18 | 4 | 2026-09-16 | ITSM, DEX | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 17 | 0 | 2025-10-10 | ||
| Template or tool | 14 | 1 | 2026-07-07 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2023-08-02 |
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Events in person
Last twelve months
- October 14, 2026 to October 15, 2026HCLSoftware Executive Summit 2026Marriott Stanton South Beach, Miami Beach, US · hosted
- June 3, 2026How AI Is Changing Enterprise Data SearchSheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center, Bengaluru, India · exhibited
As the event pages on hcl-software.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hcl-software.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name ITSM (30); 8 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
Names read as HCL BigFix
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as HCL BigFix; a claim can dispute any of them.
BigFix 1HCL BigFix Enterprise+ 1
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- where HCL BigFix is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name HCL BigFix, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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