H1 Influence Quadrant Shows Lenovo, EY and Huawei rising

Lenovo, EY and Huawei are the big winners in the Influence Quadrant for the first half of 2015. The study draws on over 100,000 data points to show which rise

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Guest post: Don’t settle for horizontal analysts

Many thanks to Evan Quinn at QAD for allowing us to publish this post disputing the recent post on vertical analysts. There is “very little verticalized technology?” That is patently incorrect,

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Analysts firms are less vertical than the vendors

Few analysts following high-technology industries tend to follow vertical markets, mainly because there’s very little verticalized technology. For example, the construction market is perhaps the largest single buyer of project

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Making Music Together: The 4 C’s of an Analyst Inquiry

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in an hour of conversation – Plato

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Will the “Powerhouse” vendors survive?

IT megavendors should see their loss of the ‘Powerhouse’ label as a more than a shift in rhetoric. Many analysts think the emergence of cloud solutions is eroding their market power.

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How Tech Providers Can Get Value from Gartner (and other Analysts)

This post was written by Hank Barnes, Research Vice President at Gartner. It is updated from work originally posted on the Gartner blog network. You can find the original post here. We are

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Answering analyst relations’ timeless questions

Over the last 12 years, my colleagues and I have run dozens of webinars and telephone conferences to address the most frequently asked questions of analyst relations managers. This week

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Guest post: Do Chinese managers use communication channels differently?

Chinese businesses and consumers have on their hands similar channels of communication as we do. However, did you know they are often used in slightly different ways? Grace Zhao runs

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