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 influence over the preceding year. That’s

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AR Classics: 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 believable, or tailored to small companies

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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 value. From the initial findings, posted

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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 has an impact on independence. On

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