We’re past the half-way mark in the Analyst Value Survey, and the results we have so far are fascinating. The survey is well over the number of responses it had in 2013. We’re already able to see some strong trends. The most striking trend is the growth of the market, especially on the end-user side….
At the end of each year, we are busy with our annual Analyst Value Survey. The results of the survey are used and discussed hundreds of thousands of times each year. Using a write-in option, participants can give feedback on any firm they like – even a tiny one. To speed the survey along, however, we have a…
Many thanks to former Gartner analyst French Caldwell (iTGuru) for this guest post, drawing on his experience crossing over to the vendor side. I’ve written about this here, and French replied to my view: I think a lot of analysts get a rude awakening, and often a great shock, when they go to the vendor side….
A key criterion of the IIAR’s Tragic Quadrant (TQ) is that AR people should prioritise analysts, and analyst firms, who are easy to do business with. It’s obvious that we prefer easy to difficult. However, the value of analysts is relatively independent of how easy or hard they are to work with. Putting easy analysts first…
Because there are no commercially-available databases of analysts’ users, the Analyst Value Survey relies on Panalyst, Kea’s in-house database, and invitations which are shared by our staff and clients. Several analyst firms also share links to the survey. The upside is that if companies share the link then the survey gets much more data about…
Shares in Apple rose $90bn in 24 hours when the firm took the unusual step of sharing more information than normal over the firm’s revenue in China. There is an important lesson in that event for reputation managers, in both investor relations and in analyst relations. Markets reward openness The stock hit $111.05 on the…
ISG, the firm which bought outsourcing experts TPI, has made a step forward into the cloud space by purchasing Saugatuck. This smaller analyst firm has a loyal client base which respects its independence. Over the last few years, Saugatuck used its long-standing expertise in the North American software and services markets to build up a…
The 2015/2016 Analyst Value Survey is now open. Please share the address, www.analystvaluesurvey.com, and take the survey yourself. As the video above explains, the Analyst Value Survey plays a unique role for the analyst industry. Each year over a thousand users of analyst research share their experiences about the analysts they are using, and how competitive…