Gartner wins 2016 Asia Pacific Analyst Firm Awards

The Asia Pacific region has some very different dynamics, but it resembles the rest of the world in one clear way: Gartner is the region’s most valuable analyst firm. It

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Gartner, Forrester, HfS & IDC top 2016 Americas Analyst Firm Awards

This 2015 post has been superceded by the 2018 Americas Analyst Firm Award. Users of analyst insight in the Americas say that Gartner, Forrester Research, HfS Research and IDC are

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Gartner & Forrester topped 2016 Americas Analyst Firm Awards

These awards from 2015 have been superseded by the 2018 Americas Analyst Firm Awards. Users of analyst insight in the Americas said that Gartner, Forrester Research, HfS Research and IDC

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Our 2015/16 Analyst Firm Awards schedule

These awards are now superseded. Please read the main page for the Analyst Firm Awards. The 2015 Analyst Value Survey (AVS) is published in the final third of the year. To help

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French Caldwell on when analysts join vendors’ staff

Many thanks to former Gartner analyst French Caldwell (iTGuru) for this guest post, drawing on his experience crossing over to the vendor side. I’ve written about this here, and French replied

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Apple’s AR failures are typical for B2B2C firms

Apple is a classic example of the firms whose weak analyst relations is most costly: companies that supply the consumer retail channel. One of our advisory board members, Vijay Modha,

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451 alum Hecht: analyst is tech evangelist not vendor advocate

Lawrence Hecht, formerly an analyst at 451 Research/TheInfoPro, offers this response to Phil Fersht’s recent contribution to our post opposing Federal regulation of analysts. Why would anyone want to be

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The Top Ten Analyst Firms For Business Growth

One of the most interesting discoveries of the Analyst Value Survey was that some demand-side firms have a very different idea from supply-side firms about which analyst firms are driving

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