Thanks to our partners at ARinsights, a replay is available of Carter Lusher’s fascinating webinar last week: IT Industry Analysts in 2023: Evolution, Revolution, or Disruption? Carter Lusher is long-time player in the analyst game: IT manager end-user client, Research Fellow at Gartner and Ovum, co-founder of analyst-of-the-analysts firm SageCircle, and AR professional. In a…
Industry analyst relations is an essential, if underutilized, tool in the marketing and positioning of software and IT services companies. Because of their relationships with buyers of technology, analysts like Gartner, Forrester and IDC hold tremendous power over vendors of IT products and services. They interact with existing and potential customers, employees and financial analysts….
The 2017 Analyst Firm Awards for Analytics and Big Data seem to be rewarding firms that are most deeply engaged in conversations with clients. The top ten firms are notable for the strong combined performance of all three CXP Group brands (PAC, le CXP and BARC) and of two giant business advisory firms (Deloitte and…
What have Box, Dropbox, Nest, Evernote, Cloudera, Palantir and Instagram in common? They were all designated a Cool Vendor by Gartner. So, what happened to the Cool Vendors? We identified over 1250 tech companies that were nominated as a Cool Vendor by Gartner. We surveyed some of them to evaluate both the impact the designation…
News of a reduction in force at 451 Research (eight analysts and a handful of other staff are affected) will have analyst relations managers looking to see which analysts are affected. The smartest AR professionals will be asking their favourite analysts firms to reach out to their closest analysts at 451 and Uptime (especially those…
These 2017 awards have been superceded by the 2018 Services & Cloud Analyst Firm Awards. The Analyst Firm Awards celebrate the most valuable analysts and advisors on Cloud and other topics. Kea Company has crunched the data from the Analyst Value Survey to find ten firms which, in total, delivered 64% of all the value being delivered…
The size and significance of different analyst firms’ share of revenue are among the longest-standing disagreements in analyst relations. Broad measures of the market, such as those shared by Gartner with its investors, are several times larger than conservative estimates from firms like KCG. Our view is that these disagreements will not be resolved and…
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders is the latest charity to benefit from Kea Company’s Analyst Attitude Survey. As a gesture of thanks to the hundreds of analysts who take part in the survey, we dedicate additional donations to recognised charities as the number of participants grows. This year, we’d like to especially foreground the work of Doctors…