IT-Analysis.com and IT-Director.com have relaunched as to carry and sell research from around 25 upstart analyst firms. The bottom line is that their new business model is very promising and, if it generates the revenue I anticipate, then the technical challenges can be cost-effectively overcome. Let me set the scene. The successful Bloor Research websites…
Blog readers rarely get an idea of the ‘life’ of a blog: who reads it, and what they think of it. Few people comment on the blog: many more of you email in their comments, but even that reflects a subset of the people who read the blog. Over the last few weeks I’ve been…
Experton has pinched former TechConsult analyst Carlo Velten to start an Investment Advisory service for holding companies and IT enterprises. Velten is an investment specialist who will be Experton’s senior advisor responsible for the development of Investment Advisory services. Experton Group will offer professional support with transactions in the IT market to holding companies, investment…
Ovum, the European analyst house, held its annual alumni event last week. A friend sent these highlights: Ovum’s revenues are on track for beating previous £20M peak within the next 12 months. That’s $35M or €30M – not bad considering the firm’s comparatively modest investments in sales and marketing. They have further raided Yankee Group…
Lighthouse’ AR Intranet has had another upgrade. Our analysts in the media database now tracks 2,000 analysts (almost — 1972 in fact). The analysts are ‘tagged’ according to the companies that they follow and the industries, products or services they track. The database also shows how each analyst’s profile differs across the main national markets…
Alice has an interesting comment on the side bar of her blog: “Never be an anonymous source. If you cannot say it on the record, that is a signal that it should not be said at all”. It would be interesting to hear the opinion of others on that.
I spotted an article The ‘Three Rs’ of Influencer Management: PR, AR, and IR, which summarizes the relationship between the key formers of influencer relations. It’s especially useful for a comprehensive list of resources available in 2005, and for some outlines of my company, Lighthouse, and similar firms. There are a few points that I would…
One fascinating discussion I’ve been following is whether or not a majority of META’s people are now at Gartner. Since META’s purchase, lots of that company’s former have found themselves outside Gartner. This has led many people, including us, to see the purchase as being closer to an assasination, a simple removal of a competitor,…