You told us which analyst firms were most, and least, independent

Analysts firms vary massively in their independence. That’s one finding of our 2013 Analyst Value Survey, which shows the opinions of 352 users of analyst research. Ovum, NelsonHall and Redmonk

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Llorente y Cuenca’s Jorge Cachinero on reputational freefall

Jorge Cachinero, group senior director at one of Europe’s leading communications consultancies, made some interesting comments today during an Instituto de Empresa talk. Alongside a dozen years teaching at IE, at Llorente

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Did you miss the posts that doubled our readership?

Views of influencerrelations.com increased by 94% over the last year. More than anything else, our Analyst Value Survey contributed to the almost doubling of the readership, and to over 5,000

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4,858 reasons to read the Analyst Value Index, and to thank Ventana Research

On November 14, Ian Scott and I introduced the Analyst Value Index  (slides here) to a select group of around a dozen of the world’s largest IT, telecoms and services

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Why are analysts out-influencing the IT manager?

One of the trends that’s growing most quickly right now is the way in which IT buying is spreading outside the IT function, and it’s compounded by the rate at which non-IT

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Informa eats Ovum for breakfast: Scrambled eggs, poached or egg rolls?

It’s just been announced that 12 year Informa veteran Steve Holtham is replacing Ovum managing director Brett Azuma “with immediate effect”. The press release states that: Most recently Steve was

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The 100 countries on the analyst influence map

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,

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Survey: which analyst firms are moving up (or down)?

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?

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