Many organisations want to benchmark their analyst relations, but sometimes it’s hard to benchmark against competitors: the field might be too broad or narrow for an Analyst Attitude Survey. And as budgets come under pressure, it’s harder to maintain measurement budgets. That’s why Lighthouse is relaunching our Analyst Relationship Maturity audit (ARM). In recent years…
Oracle’s acquisition of Sun has helped the firm move up to the 3rd spot this month. The acquisition is interesting as it has led Oracle into the realm of hardware and it will be interesting to see how Oracle handles Sun’s hardware business. NetApp is one of the top gainers this month as it moves…
Readers of this blog have excellent judgment on many things, but I’ve been surprised that a few of my followers on twitter are signing up for follow-swapping sites. I had a pretty strong reaction against seeing their adverts in my tweet feed, and made an experiment to test my hypothesis that it’s a bad idea….
Last week’s meeting of the IIAR invited a delegation from Datamonitor, including John Leigh, who heads the tech research at Datamonitor and its Ovum and Butler brands, and David Mitchell (who has a similar role as the new Research Fellow). John couldn’t make it, but Datamonitor CEO Mark Meek and David Mitchell gave a spirited…
The most high profile gainer this month is CSC which moved up 2 positions. The firm has been mentioned in analyst reports for its SOA based systems integration capabilities and its plans to move into providing new cloud services is sure to keep analysts focused on the firm. The biggest gainer this month is CGI…
The biggest gainer this month is Siemens Communications(not shown in the image on right) which has jumped up a massive 29 positions this month. The firm, which was converted into a joint venture of Siemens and the Gores Group last year, has recently announced new wireless products with Enterasys(another Gores Group company) and is ranked…
Canalys, the UK-headquartered specialist in channels to market, is following a number of other analyst firms in launching newsletters and other tools that allow direct marketing of reports and events. The Canalys Voice drives readers towards buying its research, and it cannot be accidental that the newsletter comes from Rita Chaher, who runs the firm’s…
Since our December survey we’ve seen increasing numbers of AR teams trying to move away from tracking their own efforts and trying to see how they are moving relative to their competitors. In the recession mood which still influences many buyers, analysts continue to play a market-shaping role. Clients, not technologies, are increasingly at the…