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
Jon Reed of Diginomica spoke with us about how Diginomica is taking a fresh approach to enterprise tech analysis.

Because there are no commercially-available databases of analysts’ users, the Analyst Value Survey relies on Panalyst, Kea’s in-house database, and invitations which are shared by our staff and clients. Several

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,
This post was written by Giovanni Rodriguez, a regular contributor at Forbes. The post was originally posted on Forbes. We are grateful to Giovanni for giving us permission to share this blog post.

