Gartner’s latest AR newsletter impresses us

One of the foremost services analysts in Europe, Dr Katy Ring, has joined her former Ovum colleague Gary Barnett at Bathwick Group. Bathwick is a boutique analyst firm noted for its strong relationship with IBM, said to stretch into seven figures. Ring will create Bathwick’s new Global IT Services research programme, due for launch at…

Forrester Research’s long-term commitment to building up the ARM Council over the last two years gives a good idea of the effort required to develop the kind of critical mass required by an authoritative representative body for the AR community, something that is the subject of ongoing discussion here and between the ARmadgeddon gnomes. Forrester’s…

Thanks to Carter, and others, who have asked for a clearer punchline to my comment on Gartner and Forrester’s ownership. Rather than ask you to read between the lines, I should point out what these observations suggest to me. 1. First, it’s unusual. The ownership of large firms tends to be less concentrated than the…