Which analysts are most influential
In our recent post on how analysts can make use of crowdsourcing, we mentioned a few discussions that touched on the topic including the Outsell webcast on “Information Industry Outlook 2010: Capturing Attention and Market Share”. CEO Anthea Stratigos and eight Outsell analysts presented their key predictions for 2010 along with recommended actions for publishers…
High quality content is being developed cheap or free in almost every niche of publishing. Both start-ups like Yelp! and mainstream publishing firms are able to get crowdsourced content, and in that way drive down costs and drive up quality. I’ve found myself in three discussions on this theme over the last week: at at…
Thanks go to Experton board member Luis Praxmarer, who previously managed META Group in Europe, for sharing his insight on what clients should do when an analyst firm is acquired. While these comments were directed at clients of AMR Research and Burton Group, both bought by Gartner in 2010, the same guidance can apply to…
[One of the attendees at the Lighthouse-InformationSpan webinar to discuss Gartner’s purchase of Burton sent us these comments]. To Gartner, Burton is just better off dead. Not as much from the research that Burton published than from the “enterprise-wide” model. That is a real impact on the way that Gartner, and a lot of others…
What are the first signs of change at AMR Research in the wake of its purchase by Gartner? How does it bode for Burton Group? In this guest post by Dr Tony Law, the InformationSpan CEO summarises Gartner’s recent AR Community call, with its update on both the Burton and AMR acquisitions. From the point…
Advance note: Lighthouse Analyst Relations and InformationSpan are scheduling a free webcast to explore the implications of Gartner’s acquisition of Burton Group. There will be actions for enterprise IT users who either (a) are Burton clients, and need to work out what’s going to happen to their service; or (b) are Gartner clients and may…
Datamonitor’s decision to integrate Butler, Ovum and the Datamonitor Technology business is looking like the major strategic move by one of the analyst firms this year. The integration has not been perfect, and Ovum doesn’t threaten Gartner or Forrester’s leadership. However, it lifts Ovum up in almost every way, and has brought it to the…
On December 17 we ran a webinar to take a closer look at Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). Close watchers of the services industry will need no introduction to PAC, one of Europe’s oldest industry analyst firms. The sort of projects it wins are instructive: it has been appointed by the EC to lead a consortium…