This blog is now attracting around 2,000 unique visitors each month: that’s a 15% increase on last quarter, and roughly double the readership we had at the end of last year. Last month was our all time record, with almost 4,000 page views. The increasing popularity of the blog always interests us, especially because it…
Anthony Parslow, previously Chief Operating Officer at Forrester Research Europe, has left the firm for the mother of all road trips. Anthony, seen here on the right, is one of five driving a 1988 white Daihatsu Hijet from London to Mongolia, which is celebrating its 800th anniversary this year. Their 12,000 km journey is raising…
Our Analyst Value Survey (AVS) considers itself to be independent from the analyst firms. Every year or so an analyst will ask if we are, sometimes directly or more often not. It’s almost always a response to the same stimulus: our annual survey of users of analysts’ services and insights: a large majority of the…
What happens when everyone one uses the same ‘rule of thumb’? Most of us use general principles to simplify the complexity around us. But if almost all of use make the same simplifications, and we base our work on that which is most obvious, then someone else benefits from that which is least obvious. Analyst…
On the left you can see the forty firms most mentioned in analyst research. We’ve looked across the Lighthouse analyst index reports to see which firms have the highest profiles regardless of industry. Click on the picture to see a larger version. We’re sorted them from left to right in to show which have risen…
On July the 4th we’ll be reorganising some of the work allocations here at Lighthouse. In the main, two of the team will be exchanging many of their responsibilities: Hugh Rittner will become co-chair of the firm’s board and will be our client service director; I will take over his role as the lead for…
Which analyst firms have increased their influence the post over the last year? Our 2006 survey of IT and telecoms vendors’ staff says that the answer is Forrester, Gartner, Ovum, Aberdeen and Burton — in that order: the results are shown on the right hand side. Participants in the study received the results this morning,…
Ovum, the largest European-headquartered technology analyst firm, has formally reported a 25% rise in revenue and a 253% rise in profits. This is in line with the guidance it gave me last November. Our view is that this refects four key developments. Ryan Hankin and Kent was acquired by Ovum this year, masively expanding the…