I, Kea Company, take Lighthouse Analyst Relations, to be my partner, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; and I promise to be faithful to you until death parts us. On March the first…
PRESS RELEASE Kea Company completes acquisition of Lighthouse Analyst Relations, forming world’s largest analyst relations firm. AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, LONDON, United Kingdom – March 1 2013 – Amsterdam-headquartered Kea Company today announced it has completed its acquisition of London-headquartered Lighthouse Analyst Relations. With the close of this acquisition and its 2012 merger with Germany-based Daruma…
Is it still possible to talk about services firms as a meaningful category? Take a look, for example, at the 2012 Influence Quadrant for enterprise solutions, which we made for the team at Loudhouse. Even though this IQ excludes the major Powerhouse vendors, which provide both services and technology, you can see that most of…
The Analyst Equity blog had visitors from exactly 100 countries over the last six months. 42% of visitors are in the United States and a further 42% come from seven other counties, all of which have notable communities of analyst relations professionals: (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands and the UK). What’s fascinating are the 92…
This month, Lighthouse is relaunching the Spotlight on Telecoms. Each month we’ll bring subscribers notable research they might have missed, and be talking about underlying trends. You might already know the Influence Quadrant (IQ), which shows long-term changes in how often suppliers are mentioned. In this Spotlight, we’re able to share the Telecoms IQ, which…
Users of analyst research have really different perceptions of how independent some analyst firms are. People seem to be fairly certain that Aberdeen Group has less independence than Ovum, but there very mixed opinions about Gartner. On the right is one of the charts we’ve prepared to discuss the results of our annual Analyst Value Survey….
Everyone in or around the analyst industry knows that the four major firms are Gartner, Forrester, IDC and Ovum. But who are four after that, and the four after that? To start you off, here’s one of the charts from the presentation. We asked participants which of 30 firms were the most influential on the…
I’m one of the co-authors of a new guide to best practices for LinkedIn which has been published this week by B2B Marketing. As you might imagine, I’m especially interested in the way that LinkedIn is being used for research by industry analysts and product managers. That’s what my contribution to the guide focusses on,…