The Services Analyst Firm Awards are out! The users of analysts’ services in the services industries are a little different from the others. Research and advisory days are, by far, the key services according to the Analyst Value Survey but reprints, events and peer community are not so important. The top six firms are the…
Derk Erbe opened the Analyst Relations Forum at The Proud Archivist on November 5th by regretting the absences of Scott Santucci, and by stressing the role of the forum: to connect the dots around AR, including the different stakeholders that benefit from AR and the various angles from which AR people need to understand the…
Unsurprisingly Gartner, Forrester Research and IDC came out well ahead in the 2016 Software Analyst Firm Awards. In this category, 44% of the Analyst Value Survey respondents work for vendors, 38% are in enterprises and 19% are in the SMB sector. Most of them also follow the cloud and services sectors. The three most-used firms…
Naveeen Rajdev from Wipro and Allan Valahu from Accenture gave their views on new and old forms of influence to Phil Fersht in the AR Forum’s first fire-side chat. Many AR people agree on the tiring nature of signature research like the Quadrants, and the debatable value in the stale research formats. More consolidation of…
These awards have been superseded. See the 2018 Telecoms & Networking Analyst Firm Awards at: https://www.influencerrelations.com/7189 Gartner and IDC‘s high-quality research has kept those two firms into lead position in the 2016 Telecoms Analyst Firm Awards. With Forrester Research coming third, keeping HfS Research in fourth place, the four leaders are exactly the same as last…
Pierre Audoin Consultants, the flagship brand of the CXP Group, has squeezed Forrester Research into third place in Influencer Relations’ 2016 EMEA Analyst Firm Awards. PAC’s users, mostly providers of high technology solutions and services, rated the firm’s research and advisory services very highly. Forrester continues to benefit from its unique commitment to leadership boards…
Gian Marco Campagnolo and two colleagues have been mining the profiles of industry analysts to see what makes career success happen. They have focussed on a group of 332 analysts in different roles, including top analysts, CEOs and specialists in the ERP area. I’ve been delighted to give them a little help with their project…
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