One of the key goals that users of analyst research have is finding ways to growth their businesses. The Growth Analyst Firm Awards for 2016 recognise the firms which are most valuable in terms of business growth. 46% of those who responded to this question in the Analyst Value Survey are on the supply side;…
Users of analyst services are surprisingly canny. In many situations, where people over-rate what they have chosen in the past and undervalue other options. Academics call that confirmation bias. The Analyst Value Survey shows that users of analyst services are even able to score free research above the research they pay for That is an…
Alongside the traditional top five firms, TechMarketView, Ovum and Kable are notable new entrants in the Supply Side Analyst Firm Awards for 2016. As last year, the five firms delivering the most value are Gartner, Forrester, HfS Research, IDC and NelsonHall. Those are not simply the firms with the most readers or subscribers, but the firms…
Users of analyst research in hundreds of demand-side organisations (those which buy ICT solutions, rather than those which supply them) have given their opinions to the Analyst Value Survey and, as a result, we’re able to announce the ten firms that are delivering the most value to them. Almost 70% of those who responded in…
How can a 20th-century analyst firm like 451 Research become more relevant? That’s the question that Andy Lawrence weighed up in discussion at the AR Forum earlier this month. Lawrence was ‘collaboration czar’ at 451, trying to drive the impossible task of getting analysts to cooperate in the context when clients seem to have little interested…
The Services Analyst Firm Awards are out! The users of analysts’ services in the services industries are a little different from the others. Research and advisory days are, by far, the key services according to the Analyst Value Survey but reprints, events and peer community are not so important. The top six firms are the…
Derk Erbe opened the Analyst Relations Forum at The Proud Archivist on November 5th by regretting the absences of Scott Santucci, and by stressing the role of the forum: to connect the dots around AR, including the different stakeholders that benefit from AR and the various angles from which AR people need to understand the…
Unsurprisingly Gartner, Forrester Research and IDC came out well ahead in the 2016 Software Analyst Firm Awards. In this category, 44% of the Analyst Value Survey respondents work for vendors, 38% are in enterprises and 19% are in the SMB sector. Most of them also follow the cloud and services sectors. The three most-used firms…