The services firm with the biggest increase in profile in worldwide analyst research has been a remarkable year on year rise of 9 positions in the Lighthouse Services Index: Orange Business Services. The business previously known as Equant has been ranked as a leader in the Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for 2006 Western European Mobile Service…
The last twelve months have been an especially exciting time for technology across the Arab world. There is increasing, and unsatisfied, demand for analyst insight and opinion, especially in the Gulf states. That has created the opportunity for a few research and analysis houses to set up in the region, probably the most credible being…
Readership of Analyst Equity continues to grow: March was the first month in which more than 2,500 unique visitors came to the site. In May, you’ve helped set a new record with over 2,700 visitors. By comparison, that’s 40% up on the average readership we had in 2006. Unsurprisingly, the continent with the greatest growth…
The star performer this month has been Avaya which has leapt to 2nd spot from the 10th position. That’s one of the best performances of any firm in any industry this month. Analysts certainly appear to have had a number of reasons to shine their spotlight on Avaya as it has: reported good growth become…
One trend I’ve seen over the last year is that the increasing corporate buy-in to analyst relations means that hiring managers are increasingly looking for people to understand AR — even in roles that are not specific AR jobs. In particular, product managers and solution specialists, who often interact with analysts, are increasingly finding AR…
This month the Lighthouse Software Index has some spectacular increase in the profile of some firms such as Progress Software (+27), IFS (+49) and Aspect Software (+65). This increase in profile of these firms however, may be a passing phenomenon rather than a permanent increase in the importance attached to these firms by analysts. More…
I think Jonathan’s recent comments on Gartner are still missing out price elasticity. The increased revenue reflects Gartner’s increasing share of pocket in a shrinking target group. gartner is focussing on firms with revenue over $1 bn and, as we have seen, is focussing on national markets to the exent of closing its APac consulting…
Just before the middle of the year there’s a flurry of goal-setting in analyst relations teams. Colleagues are setting budgets, looking at progress and realigning resources. That means we’re having a few discussions about Balanced Scorecards, and seeing some common challenges in using them. The balanced scorecard identifies four perspectives to track the progress of…