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 being hailed by Gartner as an “emerging megavendor” and is also ranked by IDC as one of the top 50 European Service Players. TietoEnator 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 laid off analysts covering areas with less customer demand, in order to build research strength in its core field of ubiquitous connectivity. The scale of…
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 – but does boost the analysts’ credibility with US vendor clients. However, Barbara suggests that these analysts could start to influence buying in China: “Monitoring decision-makers…
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…