Ethics in analyst relations
This is an article I mentioned in a workshop this week, giving IDB’s view of issues confronted by Oracle and the analysts facing it. Fascinating!
This is an article I mentioned in a workshop this week, giving IDB’s view of issues confronted by Oracle and the analysts facing it. Fascinating!

Our friends at Hypatia Research Group, one of the sponsors of last year’s Analyst Relations Forum (alongside firms like HfS Research and Greyhound), have shared some thoughts about how to do analyst relations. Check it out in their newsletter here. There’s one comment which might raise a few concerns with people in public relations teams:…

Industry analysts could help their users to make better choices if they had diverse research lenses, for example looking more deeply into fundamental research, vertical markets, new business models, hidden champions, new categories and local markets. Non only do many analyst firms have convergent information collection methods, but they also have similar ways of analyzing and…

Analyst relations programs: Influencing the influencers [Brodeur News, the information service of what was then the world’s largest high-tech PR agency, published this article in November 2001.] Who are the analysts? With worldwide technology spending on the wane, companies are becoming increasingly cautious when buying from high tech vendors – or investing in high tech…
The new Microsoft emails uncovered in the ‘Vista Capable’ dispute illustrate the firm’s thoughtful and analyst-driven approach to analyst relations. CNET open source blogger Matt Asay has written about the analyst relations strategies used by Microsoft with Gartner over Vista: perhaps the single analyst interaction with the greatest potential RoI.
Peggy O’Neill (H&K) and Evan Quinn (HP) are cordially inviting readers to the September 25th Silicon Valley meeting of the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations. In an email to IIAR members, they explain:- The purpose of the meeting is twofold: hold an industry dialogue with independent analysts, and gauge interest in launching a Silicon Valley…

Social media and analyst relations is one of the half-dozen topics that almost every respondent to the AR Forum survey scored as being highly important. Symantec’s Patricia Valuch will be speaking at the AR Forum about that, and I had an interesting discussion today where we discussed some of the key issues. Patricia is a great…