Gartner used the vendor relations meeting here at Symposium to re-emphasize ways in which role-based views aim to improve the usability of its research. This positive message was deflected in the Q&A session, which emphasized vendors’ frustrations with Gartner, as we explain below and in a post to follow. However, even that discussion underplayed the…
Next month the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations is holding meetings in London and Frankfurt. The London IIAR Forum will be on November 2 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Oracle’s City of London office, One South Place. IBM is hosting the third meeting of DARA, the German working group, at its Frankfurt office. The…
Depending on your view, it’s either amusing or horrific to see how much so-called research is falsified. Much of Lighthouse’s work involves academic researchers, and in my spare time I remain part of that community. Working with professors and PhDs helps us to ensure that our search for the truth remains both rigourous and self-critical….
I just saw that Catherine has interviewed the folk at ARmadgeddon in this recent post. It’s an interesting interview. I’ve exchanged email with two of them, but this gives a pretty good feeling of their motivation. They were big fans of META Group, and see the concentration at the top end of the market accellerating…
Lighthouse are Gartner’s guests at Symposium. If you’d like to meet up, send an email or call us on +1 (617) 314 6630. We’ll be at the vendor relations drinks on Monday night, at the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations breakfast on Tuesday, at Gene Hall’s AR briefing and generally talking to as many people…
The chart on the left compares a group of 147 leading industry analysts according to their individual profile in the media and their impact on high-value sales. The black line shows the trend in the data: after a certain point, higher than average profile in the media is correlated with lower than average impact on…
This month and for the second time in a row, EDS retains the number one spot in our Services Index page. That’s twice they have beaten Accenture to the top spot in as many months. T-Systems saw a marked improvement and helped to dislodge LogicaCMG from the tenth spot in the rankings. That’s bad news…
The chart on the right shows how strongly different influencers affect big-business purchasing. For a larger version, click here. The data come from an international survey of technology buyers conducted by SageCircle. SageCircle closed shortly after they shared this data with us in 2003, so I don’t know how they defined their categories. However, if…