We’ve been increasingly impressed with RocSearch’s growth since it hit the radar in 2005. So it’s going to be interesting to hear from COO Ashish Sinha about David O’Brien’s appointment as Executive Chairman. O’Brien comes in just as Neeraj Bhardwaj, the firm’s London-based CEO, is moving on (The Indian-headquartered firm has decided it needs a…
Gartner has around 6,100 attendees at its flagship event, Symposium, which is on this week in Orlando. Over the last few years total attendance has been around 7,000 – but this year’s event does feel smaller. It’s not just because the analyst relations workroom and press center are half their normal size. It’s less crowded,…
This month Hitachi has made it to the top 10 in the Lighthouse Systems Index with a jump of 4 positions. The firm, which makes products ranging from turbines and washing machines to hard drives, is facing mixed fortunes for its wide range of products. It is said to be considering a sale of its…
The new ‘Analyst Direct‘ service has serious flaws. Many of these issues relate to its market intelligence engine, ‘MI Analyst’. Some of the issues I mentioned elsewhere have been resolved: for example, ‘Ph.D.’ was listed as an analyst. However, three principal issues remain. Some issues reflect data quality. Some of them are statistical issues, rooted…
Tuesday’s AR Forum will be one of the best-attended events at Gartner’s symposium next week. Many of the leading figures in the AR community will be there, and I’ll be at DisneyWorld, where the event is held, from Saturday. I’ll there blogging for Analyst Equity: let me know if you have any questions you’d like…
There’s no analyst relations angle to this post. I was just looking through the email summary of this month’s Harvard Business Review when, over to the right of my gmail page, I saw this headline: LIES: a two-day course. You can click on the screen-shot on the right to see the advert: it’s the second…
Yahoo has jumped up 3 positions to get to the 2nd spot in the Lighthouse Services Index. Its purchase of Zimbra, an innovative provider of opensource email solutions and services, is certain to help it tap into the email market even further. Infosys, which is the first company outside North America to join the Financial…
Our concerns about the evenness of role-based research are deepened by Forrester’s latest AR research AR’s Graveyard: Unmet Sales Commitments. Forrester’s guidance is that, because most AR teams struggle to show how they contribute to their firm’s bottom line, they should focus on marketing and not attempt to support the sales function. Our view is…