Which analysts are most influential
InformationWeek’s Larry Greenemeier and Paul McDougall have written to suggest that the growing contradiction between analyst firm’s obligations to vendors and to buyer is subject to a uncomfortable conspiracy of silence. They are, in our opinion, largely right and slightly wrong. Certainly, there is a lot that happens in the relationship between analyst firms and…
MWD Advisors’ annoucement of two “key partners” in its growth strategy have us scratching our heads. They seem to divert rather than amplify the firm’s focus. This boutique firm principally follows IT infrastructure issues from a management perspective. Its research covers topics including SOA, SLAs and the associated offers of vendors like BEA, CA, Cisco,…
Jon Collins, formerly Quocirca’s Principal Analyst, has been hired by Ovum breakout MWD Advisors. MWD recently took an interesting step by putting its research under Creative Commons, making their work free for non-commercial use (what ever that means). In their opinion, if you’re not a leading research firm [by revenues] then few firms really want…
Dr. Thorsten Wichman, CEO of the Berlecon Research firm in Germany, has something to say about my hypothesis about why analysts’ consulting services are so much more in demand there. German speakers can see Thorsten’s comments, together with a good summary of my thoughts, on his blog. My very rough summary of his comments are…
Visitors to the Forrester Research website today will see that the ARM Council in North America, of which we’ve written earlier, has been divided: with a new leadership forum for technology marketers starting up (see the brochure here). There’s also a new brochure in the works for the new Analyst Relations Council, but the meanwhile…
We have always been skeptical of the view that the fundamental trend in the analyst industry is one of consolidation. While it’s a lot easier to think that the number of important influencers gets fewer and fewer over time, our research finds that end-users continue to value a second opinion, a third, and often even a fourth….
More former META executives are popping up at Experton Group. Former META Group Geschäftsführer Jürgen Brettel is now listed on the firm’s web site as its Chief Executive Officer, while former META Vice-President Rüdiger Spies has joined the firm’s advisory team as a partner. Experton’s strategy is is the subject of wide-ranging discussion [not the…
Experton Group LLC has a new CEO: Luis Praxmarer, one of the key figures in the German IT market. Luis was formerly led META Group’s EMEA business, and owned and founded META Group Germany, which was acquired by Gartner in spring 2005. Praxmarer will be CEO of Experton Group LLC in USA and Dubai and…