We’ve been increasingly impressed with RocSearch’s growth since it hit the radar in 2005. So it’s going to be interesting to hear from COO Ashish Sinha about David O’Brien’s appointment
Gartner has around 6,100 attendees at its flagship event, Symposium, which is on this week in Orlando. Over the last few years total attendance has been around 7,000 – but
The new ‘Analyst Direct‘ service has serious flaws. Many of these issues relate to its market intelligence engine, ‘MI Analyst’. Some of the issues I mentioned elsewhere have been resolved:
Tuesday’s AR Forum will be one of the best-attended events at Gartner’s symposium next week. Many of the leading figures in the AR community will be there, and I’ll be
Our concerns about the evenness of role-based research are deepened by Forrester’s latest AR research AR’s Graveyard: Unmet Sales Commitments. Forrester’s guidance is that, because most AR teams struggle to
There’s trouble at t’ Ovum mill. Two of the firm’s star IT research directors, Gary Barnett and Ian Wesley, have left the firm. Gary and Ian have been absolutely central
Our post on growth opportunities for competitors to Forrester and Gartner has triggered some discussion, both in our monthly ‘Advisor Spotlight’ webinar, another blog and on our Boardroom. In particular,
According to a B2B article, IDC’s 2007 survey of tech vendors’ marketing budgets showed that 6.3% of the budget goes on PR (down from 7.1%) and a further 2.2% on
