Yogesh Pathak, CEO and founder of Path KPO Solutions, came in to brief Lighthouse this morning on a break from meeting clients in London. Path KPO is one of a number of Indian-headquartered firms leveraging their technology insight and deep analytical skills to produce ‘white label’ research for US and European companies. After completing his…
Bloor and Oracle seem to be in a war of words. According to Bloor’s technology Research Director, Philip Howard, “Oracle doesn’t like my suggesting that it is under attack or, if it is, it’s only because it is the leading database vendor (in its eyes) and therefore a natural target. Indeed, it dislikes the suggestion…
Gartner has announced a series of changes to its Magic Quadrant (MQ) and MarketScope (MS). In a nutshell, the key changes are these: 1. Gartner is standardizing some of the elements of the MQ and MS 2. Primarily, workflow, service levels and terminology have beestandardizeded 3. Criteria naming has been standardized, but each analyst can…
A colleague and I have just completed a AR effectiveness audit that compares the performance of a group of IT services firms. One activity, which we call Analyst Mindshare, involves reviewing the research of a group of analyst firms, weighting each report to reflect its impact on sales, and then comparing the changes over time….
Ovum agreed plans for an IPO in February at its annual shareholders’ meeting last Friday. The telecoms and software advisory and consulting firm has been discussing with some financial advisors over the least year in order to identify an optimal time to list its shares in London. Apparently, sales as early as this September would…
Lighthouse’s AR Intranet has had an major upgrade to mark the opening of the second half. The intranet includes a listing of 505 analyst firms, would be analyst firms, and firms that have tried to pass themselves off as analysts. It’s a valuable addition for AR managers who need to sort out the wheat from…
Our annual analyst attitude survey for services was launched with a conference call yesterday. Donna Stein, former AR head at 3Com and Lucent, and I gave the key findings of the study to callers from several of the top 30 services firms, whom we profile in the survey. The services market saw a big change…
Pleon hosted a meeting for its UK alumni last night. This PR business of the BBDO advertising giant acquired the European business of Brodeur, where I and a few of my colleagues and former colleagues at Lighthouse formed the bulk of its EMEA analyst relations business until 2002. The firm has changed a lot: just…