Which analysts are most influential
We don’t want to get stuck on someone else’s riff, but we had to comment on the new 2007 predictions from Gartner. According to a BBC story, blogging will peak in 2007, Vista will be the last major release of Windows, and the price of PCs will fall by 2010. Lighthouse’s end of year lunch…
Regular readers may know about our weekly Spotlight service, in which we point out the new research that interests us the most. This week we came across some interesting Seybold research which I just had too comment on. In this CRM case study, Mitchell Kramer explains his own experience of using a bank’s website. Let…
Having spoken this week to Datamonitor and Ovum executives, Lighthouse has concluded that Datamonitor’s acquisition of Ovum is quite unlike those of most other analyst firms. While META and Giga both had uneven business performance, Ovum’s proven record of fast growth and improved financial results is reflected in the success of its own IPO. As…
Europe’s largest analyst firm, Datamonitor, is to purchase Ovum, Europe’s largest technology and telecoms analysts. The deal values Ovum at slightly under $80 million. The news comes shortly after Anthony Parslow, the former Forrester COO in Europe, joined Datamonitor’s Executive Management Committee to oversee acquisitions and operations at the firm. While some of Ovum’s shareholders…
This morning we have returned from Gartner’s Symposium to a shocking sadness. Thorsten Wichmann, co-founder and managing director of the German analyst firm Berlecon Research, has died after a short and serious illness. Dr. Wichmann was a brilliant analyst and a thoughful and sensitive human. We valued our opportunities to speak with him whenever he…
Gartner used the vendor relations meeting here at Symposium to re-emphasize ways in which role-based views aim to improve the usability of its research. This positive message was deflected in the Q&A session, which emphasized vendors’ frustrations with Gartner, as we explain below and in a post to follow. However, even that discussion underplayed the…
Lighthouse are Gartner’s guests at Symposium. If you’d like to meet up, send an email or call us on +1 (617) 314 6630. We’ll be at the vendor relations drinks on Monday night, at the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations breakfast on Tuesday, at Gene Hall’s AR briefing and generally talking to as many people…
The chart on the left compares a group of 147 leading industry analysts according to their individual profile in the media and their impact on high-value sales. The black line shows the trend in the data: after a certain point, higher than average profile in the media is correlated with lower than average impact on…