Which analysts are most influential
Lighthouse’s August webinar discusses recent changes at Gartner. As this chart shows, Gartner’s stock has underperformed NASDAQ for most of the last year. But over the last month the firm’s shares have soared 25% (by an odd coincidence, most of this growth was prior to the release of the firm’s H2 results on July 30,…
Kudos to the Institute for Industry Analyst Relations for persuading IDC’s Insights businesses to stop demanding sales lead information from companies wanting to brief Insights analysts. In a recent post on the IIAR’s blog,one IIAR board member noted how the IDC units were requesting information that was not relevant to the briefing process. David had…
$23 million plus some debt seems like a small price to pay for Jupiter Research, once one of the bigger names in the analyst industry. It should help Forrester’s stock price to continue its upward curve, which has seen it rise from $26 in April to $34 today. However, it’s also an end for Jupiter….
Dave Kellogg, a Silicon Valley marketer and blogger, recently provided commentary on a previous article from Alan Pelz-Sharpe of CMS Watch. Alan’s article covered rules he thinks vendors should follow when dealing with independent analysts. Overall, of course, Alan and Dave have some pretty good advice, and we’ve had some good feedback from our readers,…
This month we divide our Lighthouse Services Index into two more focussed studies. First comes the Lighthouse Outsourcing Index and next month we’ll launch the Consulting & Systems Integration Index. To enable us to carry out the research for these new indexes some major steps have been taken this month. 1. Addition of more firms…
A quick ‘heads up’ from Richard:Informa gets bid from private equity consortium led by Providence Equity. Depending on whose maths you trust, the bid is more or less $6 billion: less according to The Times, but almost $7 billion according to the Financial Times (the FT correctly notes that the value of Informa’s debt also…
Telecoms specialists Analysys Mason are expanding more into the software space though their purchase of OSS Observer. The announcement is here. Considering the weakness of the US dollar, we’ll perhaps see more purchases of US firms from Europe in the future.
Lighthouse’s roundtable discussion is about how Green IT fits into the way that analysts (and other stakeholders) evaluate the brand positions and CSR strategies of top IT companies. Environmental sustainability is an increasingly important topic for IT buyers worldwide. To better understand the opportunities, Lighthouse is supporting a research project to look at how (and whether) IT…