Over 200 telecoms and networking professionals told the Analyst Value Survey that Gartner, IDC and Forrester were the three most valuable analyst firms. That’s a great result for IDC, but the real surprise is the strong performance of services firms in the telecoms top ten of our analyst firm awards, and the fall of telecoms…
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” firms. An excellent illustration of that is the chart below, which uses data from the Analyst Value Survey. It shows the firms where the demand-side and supply-side respondents gave the most different…
For this Coffee Talk we invited Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO of Greyhound Research, an independent IT & Telecom Research & Advisory firm. He also is the author of the blog As Disruptive As IT Gets.
It is critical for Analyst Relations (AR) to thoroughly research a particular Magic Quadrant and its history. Even AR staffs that have been working with Gartner on a MQ for a long time could benefit from doing a little digging into the background of the MQ in order to separate reality from faulty memory and…
For this Coffee Talk we’ve invited Kea Company’s own Efrem Mallach. Efrem Mallach, PhD, literally wrote the book on Analyst Relations. A quarter of a century ago, Win Them Over was the first book about influencing analysts, consultants and advisors. Building on his experience at Honeywell and as an analyst, Mallach led two Analyst Relations…
Over the last month Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards for 2014 have gone from successful to monumental.
Listen back to our Coffee Talk with seasoned Analyst Relations professional Michael Myers from KPMG, who talks over his route into Analyst Relations and his views on the Analyst Relations Industry. Interested in joining the conversation? Join our LinkedIn group for in-house Analyst Relations professionals.
You probably don’t know all the investor-savvy analysts pushing down tech share prices. Apple’s shocking $40bn share price fall in through September and mid-October wasn’t simply about actors’ privacy. And the $20bn wiped off IBM’s share price on October 18 wasn’t just about sluggish sales.