Ovum Consulting will be one topic of interest to Ovum shareholders at its AGM later this month. The firm’s accounts make interesting reading. Despite suffering from the weak US dollar, Ovum’s orders grew from £14m to £16m (US $29m) over the last year. Much of this growth was in its consultancy business, whose order book…
Charlene Li’s Blog: Pending Yahoo! personalized search announcement is worth reading. I’ve followed the ‘paper trail’ from Yahoo’s PR agency, and could not resist reading this blog and making a comment. It’s interesting that, for some, analysts are simply there to generate good copy rather than direct influencers one should not manipulate.
Blogs’ Impact on Analyst Relations reflects some interesting triumphalism from Yahoo’s PRs. I’ve reposted it below. Blogs’ Impact On Analyst Relations Kevin Dugan Expert Author Published: 2005-04-25 The Yahoo! account team over at public relations firm Fleishman Hillard brings us a great example of the impact blogs can have on analyst relations. And since I…
We can recommend readers look at Reputation Constitution, Issues Monitoring and Issues Management in Media Society (published by the University of Zurich). Pleon, the European PR wing of the DDBO advertising agency, is developing a European Centre on Reputation Management with Zurich academics. One Zurich research project on the topic argues that “media-broadcast communications are…
This is an article I mentioned in a workshop this week, giving IDB’s view of issues confronted by Oracle and the analysts facing it. Fascinating!
Pleon says that Decision making is not getting any easier – Analysts help buyers make a vendor or product selection. An interesting comment, from research by Darwin, that analysts sales are around $15 billion. That seems a little high to some maybe, but certainly reflects one reality: some vendors act as if Gartner is the…
We read that Vocent Appoints Jeff Scheel as CEO and Secures Additional Financing. CRM vendor Vocent has appointed a leading sales and marketing guru from Siebel as its CEO. No news there, surely. But Jeff Scheel led Siebel’s analyst relations work, before progressing to more senior roles in the CRM giant. That’s one more rung…
Datamonitor – Corporate Announcements: After the recent purchase of META by Gartner, Datamonitor (which has bought Computerwire) announced the purchase of Butler Group. Strategically, this is interesting. While Datamonitor is closer to Computerwire’s core business, Butler is a little further away. It is more focussed and more reliant on a cadre of top managers.