“Deal-Maker or Breaker” is over& Other Harsh AR Truths
2014 has been the breakout year for freemium analyst firms. It’s fundamentally ended the fantasy that only Gartner and Forrester were “deal-maker or breaker”…
Analyst Value Survey
Announcing the 10 Outstandingly-Valuable Services Analysts
Over the last month Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards for 2014 have gone from successful to monumental.
How Services Analysts Became Major Telecoms Influencers
Services analysts are rapidly becoming major influencers in the telecoms and networking industries because they offer context and reassurance to managers in the business lines. It’s…
Frustrated Customers Produce Opportunities for Upstart Analyst Firms
“Everything that has been disseminated for free this past year has been excellent. Gartner and Forrester material is either dated, too high level, not…
Gartner, Forrester, HfS & DCG led American analyst value in 2014
This award has been superceded by the 2018 Americas Analyst Firm Awards. Hundreds of professionals across the Americas voted Gartner, Forrester Research, HfS Research…
Guest post: Bram Weerts on the AVS
1100 people told Kea Company how they feel about the current playing field. Of course Kea would like to share these results with you….
AR Classics: What the arrival of HFS Research tells us about freemium
In September 2014 Phil Fersht at HfS Research published some charts which showed its lead position as the firm had increased the most in…
We’re launching an Analyst Value Survey index to rank the analyst firms
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…
Independence? Analyst firms get around a third of revenue from vendors
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…