Which analysts are most influential
They’re putting the band back together. Richard Holway, perhaps Europe’s best known analyst, and Anthony Miller, one of the UK’s leading software and services analysts, have launched TechMarketView. The firm will continue HotViews, Holway’s ongoing service providng comment on the UK services and software market. We’ll be speaking with them soon to find out what…
Informa, which owns Datamonitor, Ovum and Butler, stays on the shelf after Providence Equity Partners walked away from its planned purchase of the group. It would have been one of the largest private equity deals, and was never certain. As we discussed, the lack of synergies across the sprawling Informa group continue to make it…
Is it just me who has doubts? I’ve been looking at the Gartner’s Blog Network, which went live last week. It might be a little early to pass judgement on its vitality and longevity: Anthony Bradley launched them formally, on September 15th (day 2 of Gartner’s Web Innovation Summit in LA). n However, at the…
We met with David Metcalfe, one of the founders and a Director at Verdantix this week. David will be familiar to you from his Forrester Research analyst and vice-president roles over eight years. Verdantix is a traditional analyst research company in its business model, but it is far from that when it comes to its…
Thanks to Efrem Mallach for flagging up an interesting new article: Matt Asay’s criticism of analysts’ failures at making accurate market predictions. Matt’s argument is that analysts are great at understanding the present and past, but they are weak at what clients pay analysts for – understanding the future. However, we feel that’s mistaken: there…
Many analyst relations professionals have misunderstood the implications of last week’s lay-offs at Yankee Group. Yankee Group has ended coverage of a number of technologies (generally more mature ones), and laid off analysts covering areas with less customer demand, in order to build research strength in its core field of ubiquitous connectivity. The scale of…
Barbara French, a savvy follower of the analyst industry, notes that the expansion of US analyst firms into China is unlikely to produce meaningful influence on technology purchasing there – but does boost the analysts’ credibility with US vendor clients. However, Barbara suggests that these analysts could start to influence buying in China: “Monitoring decision-makers…
Now 30 years since its foundation, Pierre Audoin Consultants has come a very long way forward and reached around the globe with their proposition of local and global research and consulting on a wide range of IS markets. If you were to use a cagr calculator with the statistics you see in the news these…