We met with David Metcalfe, one of the founders and a Director at Verdantix this week. David will be familiar to you from his Forrester Research analyst and vice-president roles
Michael Selwyn, one of Europe’s best-loved and most respected analyst relations consultants passed away on Friday morning. Michael had developed analyst relations for clients of many of the best-known agencies
Thanks to Efrem Mallach for flagging up an interesting new article: Matt Asay’s criticism of analysts’ failures at making accurate market predictions. Matt’s argument is that analysts are great at
The most high profile mover this month is Wipro. The firm has moved up 2 places and is now ranked 9th in the Services Index this month. The firm is
Many analyst relations professionals have misunderstood the implications of last week’s lay-offs at Yankee Group. Yankee Group has ended coverage of a number of technologies (generally more mature ones), and
Barbara French, a savvy follower of the analyst industry, notes that the expansion of US analyst firms into China is unlikely to produce meaningful influence on technology purchasing there –
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
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
