| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT financial management | IT operations and endpoint | 9% | 1 of 159 | 12% | 24 | accepted challenger |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“I'd recommend Nicus or Proven Optics as strong Technology Business Management (TBM) software options” Grok 4.1 Fast · IT financial mgmt · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Recommendation: Start with Nicus if you're mid-market B2B without heavy ServiceNow reliance” Grok 4.1 Fast · IT financial mgmt · direct prompt · first choice
“point to ServiceNow-native ITFM with a managed-service provider such as Nicus/Proven Optics” Muse Glimmer 30B · IT financial mgmt · direct prompt · first choice
“Pick Nicus if you need a real ITFM platform now.” GPT-5.4 mini · IT financial mgmt · budget prompt · first choice
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.
“MagicOrange is commonly cited as best for technology cost allocation and Nicus as best for IT service cost allocation, but both are enterprise-priced with pricing on request” Muse Glimmer 30B · IT financial mgmt · budget prompt · soft negative
“May improve with version 7.0, but currently has usability frustrations.” Kimi K2 · IT financial mgmt · negative prompt · soft negative
“Tools like Apptio, ServiceNow ITFM, or Nicus often require heavy config” Grok 4.1 Fast · IT financial mgmt · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 62 of the 62 answers that named Nicus ITFM Platform and are not a share of its labels.
237 of the 261 domain citations in answers naming Nicus ITFM Platform came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 37 | 2 | 2026-09-17 | IT financial mgmt, ITAM | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 12 | 0 | 2021-04-15 | IT financial mgmt | |
| Conference or event | 12 | 1 | 2026-07-29 | IT financial mgmt | |
| Report or ebook | 8 | 0 | 2020-07-20 | ||
| Comparison | 8 | 0 | 2025-08-13 | IT financial mgmt | |
| Case study | 7 | 0 | 2020-10-22 | ||
| Blog | 1 | 0 | 2025-08-22 |
As the event pages on nicus.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
Every page nicus.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.
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
What Nicus ITFM Platform's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: nicus.com, nicus.com/products, nicus.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Nicus ITFM Platform'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 Nicus ITFM Platform, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Nicus ITFM Platform by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
AI models recommend Nicus ITFM Platform first in IT financial management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.