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The hot news this week has been the decision of AMR Research to allow itself to be bought by Gartner. If you’re an AMR client you will already be aware of this, and be thinking about your action plan. If you’re a Gartner client in the ERP and Supply Chain space, there will be direct…
Praise goes to the IIAR for breaking the news (to me, at least) of Gartner’s purchase of AMR Research. The AR institute posted the news an hour before Gartner’s press release on BusinessWire started to pop up in the press. AMR’s Bruce Richardson has also outlined the good news about the deal [And Tony Law’s…
IT budgets are always under constraint, but today’s CIOs are under intense pressure to deliver more for less. At the same time technology development is offering new options, from social computing to sourcing. IT must assess these effectively and invest for business benefit.
I was working from Gartner’s press room on the day that the story hit that ZL Technologies is suing the firm for unfavourable coverage. Andrew Spender, VP Corporate Communications at Gartner and Brompton rider, gave me this statement on behalf of the firm. We are aware of the complaint filed in California by ZL Technologies…
It was the best of Gartner; it was the worst of Gartner. It was the AR Forum of wisdom; it was the AR Forum of foolishness. Analyst Relations managers crowded into the Boardwalk on October 20 for Gartner’s annual session for the AR community. It’s a valuable session, and much of the slideware will be…
The annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo has a rather different air about it this year: numbers are down (I hear there are around 5,000 people although it always feels smaller to me than the stated numbers), heads are down and the dress code’s had a real turn towards the formal (It’s first year when I feel I’m…
Yankee Group is organising a free informal webinar on October 14 for analyst relations and other vendor strategy professionals to pose questions – and get answers – from CEO Emily Green and Research Senior VP Zeus Kerravala. The event is aimed at AR people and at marketing, and product- and strategy-development managers. Participants should expect…
The new analyst relations newsletter from Gartner is now online. A centerpiece interview with Heidi Melin, CMO of Polycom will interest many readers. Research GVP Jenni Lehman gives recent a preview of the Evidence Sidebar while Nancy Erskine summarises changes to the Gartner research issue escalation process. The newsletter also includes a reminder of the…