In September 2014 Phil Fersht at HfS Research published some charts which showed its lead position as the firm had increased the most in influence over the preceding year. That’s all the more notable an accomplishment because it’s the second year they have had that position [in the Analyst Value Survey, which in 2014 was…
“Everything that has been disseminated for free this past year has been excellent. Gartner and Forrester material is either dated, too high level, not believable, or tailored to small companies only.” This comment to the Analyst Value Survey from a frustrated senior manager in one of the world’s biggest enterprises really struck the same note…
In three weeks over 3,000 people used the results of the 2013 Analyst Value Survey results to understand which analysts firms are delivering increasing value. From the initial findings, posted at http://www.slideshare.net/dchapple, a lot of questions have arisen. Most importantly, what does the survey suggest that buyers of analyst services, and analyst firms themselves, should…
Where do analyst firms get their money from? As this chart shows, there’s a big difference between different firms, and many people assume that has an impact on independence. On average, analyst firms get 37% of their revenue from vendors. However, the data are not normally distributed.