Influence
This morning I met up with a client to ask her feedback of some changes we’ve had to our Analyst Attitude Surveys surveys of analysts. I came away with good news.. and bad news. The good news is that she thinks our survey is much improved ‘head and shoulders above’ where were were a couple…
The chart on the right hand side shows the ten systems suppliers with the highest profile in analyst research over the last six weeks. It is an extract from the System Index, one of our monthly share of voice measurements, which we call the Analyst Index suite. In July’s top ten Systems Index analysts seem…
This blog is now attracting around 2,000 unique visitors each month: that’s a 15% increase on last quarter, and roughly double the readership we had at the end of last year. Last month was our all time record, with almost 4,000 page views. The increasing popularity of the blog always interests us, especially because it…
Our Analyst Value Survey (AVS) considers itself to be independent from the analyst firms. Every year or so an analyst will ask if we are, sometimes directly or more often not. It’s almost always a response to the same stimulus: our annual survey of users of analysts’ services and insights: a large majority of the…
Although there is hardly any change at the top of the chart, the players in the lower division are making impressive improvements. An outstanding result for HP Services as analysts’ interest heats up and ranks HP Services at the 10th position. Moreover slowly but surely Unisys, IBM, Deloitte and Bearing Point all move up by…
What happens when everyone one uses the same ‘rule of thumb’? Most of us use general principles to simplify the complexity around us. But if almost all of use make the same simplifications, and we base our work on that which is most obvious, then someone else benefits from that which is least obvious. Analyst…
This month, we present a great achievement by Nokia as it ascends to the number 1 spot in the Lighthouse Telecoms Index. And with BT finally moving up from 9th, the June Index really shows how much improvement can be made in just one month. Heading towards the southern tip, Foundry continues this upbeat performance…
Despite the almost peerless Microsoft’s leading position enduring, and neither Oracle nor SAP moving from last month, this month’s Software Index shows fascinating developments further down the food chain. With just one place changing hands in the top 5, life in the upper echelons of the Software Index seems relatively quiet. Of course, with the…