Every category where a model named Lakeside Software 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
Digital employee experience	IT operations and endpoint	0%	46 of 219	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by ControlUp at 13%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Lakeside Software yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Lakeside Software across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Best for: Organizations needing detailed performance data and long-term trend analysis” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DEX · direct 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Lakeside Software, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lakeside Software was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Nexthink Infinity13 of 139Not among the top eight

ControlUp11 of 132Not among the top eight

1E5 of 130Not among the top eight

Omnissa4 of 130Not among the top eight

Microsoft Viva3 of 130Not among the top eight

TeamViewer DEX2 of 131Not among the top eight

1inch Network2 of 130Not among the top eight

HP Workforce Experience Platform2 of 130Not among the top eight

Riverbed2 of 130Not among the top eight

Tanium2 of 130Not among the top eight

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 Lakeside Software. 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 11 of the 13 answers that named Lakeside Software and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

nexthink.com6

dexdigital.ai5

flexxible.com5

gartner.com5

teamspective.com4

teamviewer.com4

workforceexperience.hp.com4

businesswire.com3

chainup.com3

cxtoday.com3

Forty-two of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Lakeside Software came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dexdigital.ai/learn/dex-tools.html5

teamspective.com/blog/digital-employee-experience-software4

cxtoday.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-digital-employee-experience-dex-management-tools-203

gartner.com/reviews/market/digital-employee-experience-management-tools3

teamviewer.com/en/special/best-digital-employee-experience-software3

anywherer.com/best-employee-experience-software2

chainup.com/blog/dex-for-business-enterprise-guide2

coinbureau.com/analysis/best-decentralized-exchanges2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

lakesidesoftware.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Lakeside Software takes 0% of first choices and ControlUp takes 13%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “dex platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “dex platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 590 a month (“lakeside software”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 42 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 5,117 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,228 · 96 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,782
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 46 of 219 in DEX

Segment leader

13%

ControlUp

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 13 answers
Its own site cited: in 11 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on lakesidesoftware.com

1,044

subdomains included

Content

791

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

47 · 48

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	366	7	2026-09-17	DEX, ITSM
News or press	247	1	2026-07-21	DEX, ITSM
Report or ebook	59	2	2026-08-17	DEX
Podcast or video	45	1	2026-08-17	DEX
Case study	40	0	2026-07-06	ITSM, DEX
Webinar or virtual event	18	3	2026-09-11
Comparison	9	undated		Network monitoring
Conference or event	3	undated
Glossary or explainer	3	undated
Template or tool	1	undated		DEX

Most recent

2026-09-17Dex platform what to look for in a mature market blog
2026-09-11Systrack q3 product webinar whats new in 11 8 whats next webinar or virtual event
2026-09-09Webinar sweepstakes webinar or virtual event
2026-08-25Confidently elegantly wrong how ai is disrupting it blog
2026-08-25Sre for euc endpoint reliability as the last mile of site resilience blog
2026-08-25The ai powered help desk has a bloat problem blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page lakesidesoftware.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. 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 Lakeside Software

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Lakeside Software; a claim can dispute any of them.

Lakeside Software (now Riverbed Aternity) 1

Follow Lakeside Software

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Lakeside Software is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: DEX Reliability Engineering
lakesidesoftware.com
For: organizations with large, complex IT environments
lakesidesoftware.com
Price stated: preferred pricing options to partners across the ecosystem lakesidesoftware.com/partners
Integrations claimed: 11 lakesidesoftware.com · 8 lakesidesoftware.com/case-studies · 10 lakesidesoftware.com/partners pages disagree
Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001:2022SOC 2 Type 2EU-US DPFHIPAASwiss-US DPFUK Extension to EU-US DPF
Customers named: Clifford ChanceKyndrylLexisNexisPIMCOSchönherrSisecamQualtrics
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, free plan or trial, hosting

What Lakeside Software's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: lakesidesoftware.com, trust.lakesidesoftware.com, lakesidesoftware.com/platform, lakesidesoftware.com/case-studies, lakesidesoftware.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Lakeside Software's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Lakeside Software, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Lakeside Software by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Lakeside Software 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 Lakeside Software, 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;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.