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Motorola has managed to sneak back into the 3rd spot this month. The analyst focus on its acquisition of AirDefense and its better than expected second quarter results have helped it to improve its score this month and edge out Ericsson to get the 3rd spot. The biggest mover this month is PTC (Polska Telefonia…
Peggy O’Neill (H&K) and Evan Quinn (HP) are cordially inviting readers to the September 25th Silicon Valley meeting of the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations. In an email to IIAR members, they explain:- The purpose of the meeting is twofold: hold an industry dialogue with independent analysts, and gauge interest in launching a Silicon Valley…
The biggest gainer this month is the Spend Management Solution firm Ariba. The firm has charged up 31 positions. Ariba recently reported that its transformation to on demand is complete – this is likely to have increased analyst focus. Compuware has also managed to move up 15 positions this month. The firm has reported strong…
This week we are launching the latest addition to the Lighthouse Index family – The Lighthouse Systems Integration and Consulting Index. The topic was discussed briefly last month when we announced our plans to launch new indexes. The graphic to the right provides a list of the firms that are monitored in this particular index…
Apple is the highest profile mover this month in the Lighthouse Systems Index. The firm has benefited from analyst focus on the new Apple 3G iPhone and as a result, it has moved up 3 places and is now ranked at the 4th position. Lenovo, which has announced that it is expanding its consumer PC…
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,…
HCL is the biggest month on month gainer this month in the new Lighthouse Outsourcing Index. The firm has benefited from analyst focus on its announcement to buy Liberata and has gained 5 positions this month. HCL is now ranked at the 14th spot. The other notable gainer this month is ACS, which incidentally also…
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…