These awards have been superseded. See the 2018 Telecoms & Networking Analyst Firm Awards at: https://www.influencerrelations.com/7189 Gartner and IDC‘s high-quality research has kept those two firms into lead position in the 2016 Telecoms Analyst Firm Awards. With Forrester Research coming third, keeping HfS Research in fourth place, the four leaders are exactly the same as last…
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 delivers one-third of analyst community’s influence on purchasing recommendations, and 24% of all the analyst value gained by users in the region. Below Gartner is…
This 2015 post has been superceded by the 2018 Americas Analyst Firm Award.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 the firms that delivered the most value in 2015.
These awards from 2015 have been superseded by the 2018 Americas Analyst Firm Awards.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 were the firms that delivered the most value in 2015. HfS’ move up to third place will surprise many readers. It shows that, despite IDC’s…
These awards are now superseded.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 you plan, we set a schedule for announcing the 2015/16 Analyst Firm Awards. These awards draw together the opinions of users of analyst research (over average, over…
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 to my view: I think a lot of analysts get a rude awakening, and often a great shock, when they go to the vendor side….
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, is a consultant to the retail industry. He writes that “Although many of the biggest brand names, for example in technology and healthcare, direct a…
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 called a vendor advocate? How about technology evangelist? That connotes a point-of-view without saying that the advocate is beholden to the vendor’s interest. I actually…