The Analyst Relations Forum on Twitter It is now relatively common that conversations happening at events can be captured on Social Networking Sites such as Twitter as well as physically in the room. What we want to demonstrate here is the potential of social media monitoring tools for analysing remote events. This post will showcase…
After Gartner’s French Caldwell retired he joined MetricStream, one of the GRC vendors he followed for Gartner. Folk are often surprised when top analysts move over to the supplier side. Howard Dresner, one of the best known analysts in any field, surprised a lot of people when he left Gartner to join Hyperion. While it’s only…
1100 people told Kea Company how they feel about the current playing field. Of course Kea would like to share these results with you. I know for a fact that no other firm has this in-depth, unbiased, information from users of vendors and buy-side in one document. In our “Research Report with in-depth analysis” we…
Symantec’s EMEA comms leader Caroline Dennington and recent Gartner alum Samyr Jriri gave an impressive presentation today about analysts’ impact on sales. Context is key: analysts are increasingly stretched, something reflected by the increasing frequency with which some firms are taking complaints to Gartner’s Ombudsman, and making similar appeals at other firms. Dennington, who previously…
This site’s ongoing comment war about Constellation Research has spotlit the firm’s use of a psychometric tool. Mark Talaba is Executive Vice President at The Gabriel Institute, the creators of the Teamability tool, sent this comment to Duncan Chapple by email, and permission to publish it here. A friend forwarded ‘Debate:…Constellation?‘ to me, mainly because our product was…
One of several striking common factors, when we see the rise of newer analyst firms, is the way they are bringing together analysts to explore new value propositions. Great insights and good analysts are not enough to build momentum. A great example of that seems to be Constellation, a firm that’s passionate about disruptive technology with a…
As we mentioned earlier this month, Leslie Ament has some blunt comments about what AR people need to know, both about analysts in general and about Hypatia Research Group specifically. Many thanks to her for the comment below. In the interest of transparency, here are our observations and suggestions: Most analyst relations professionals on the vendor-side do…
As part of the early stage preparation for the AR Forum 2014, Duncan and I reached out to a select group of renowned Analyst Relations professionals, to ask them to be part of the International Advisory Council (IAC) and to help Kea Company organise the annual Forum. On Wednesday, March 26th, we hosted the first…