Analyst firms

Andrew Parker has died

Andrew Parker, Forrester vice president and lead IT services & sourcing analyst in EMEA, passed away last Sunday after losing his battle with cancer.
Many of Lighthouse’s clients have worked with Andrew for several years, and we found him a warm and generous man as well as an insightful analyst.
Forrester’s Chistine Ferrusi has written a memorial […]

13Jul2010 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | Continued

Springboard buys Hydrasight to exploit Gartner’s relative weakness in emerging markets

Springboard Research, the Singapore-headquartered firm which has continued to grow through the last year, has bought Hydrasight, an upmarket analyst and consulting organisation based in Australia. Springboard’s allowed AnalystEquity to break its embargo and speak about it in advance of the formal announcement tomorrow (online here).
The two firms fit will together, with little redundancy between […]

4Mar2010 | Lighthouse | 1 comment | Continued

Recording: How analysts can gain market share

In our recent post on how analysts can make use of crowdsourcing, we mentioned a few discussions that touched on the topic including the Outsell webcast on “Information Industry Outlook 2010: Capturing Attention and Market Share”. CEO Anthea Stratigos and eight Outsell analysts presented their key predictions for 2010 along with recommended actions for […]

17Feb2010 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | Continued

Crowdsourcing influence: how can you leverage it?

High quality content is being developed cheap or free in almost every niche of publishing. Both start-ups like Yelp! and mainstream publishing firms are able to get crowdsourced content, and in that way drive down costs and drive up quality.
I’ve found myself in three discussions on this theme over the last week: at at number […]

3Feb2010 | Lighthouse | 1 comment | Continued

Praxmarer: Five steps for clients when analyst firms get bought

Thanks go to Experton board member Luis Praxmarer, who previously managed META Group in Europe, for sharing his insight on what clients should do when an analyst firm is acquired.  While these comments are especially useful for clients of AMR Research and Burton Group, both recently bought by Gartner, the same guidance can apply to […]

1Feb2010 | Lighthouse | 1 comment | Continued

To Gartner, Burton is better off dead

[One of the attendees at the Lighthouse-InformationSpan webinar to discuss Gartner’s purchase of Burton sent us these comments]. To Gartner, Burton is just better off dead. Not as much from the research that Burton published than from the “enterprise-wide” model. That is a real impact on the way that Gartner, and a lot of others […]

13Jan2010 | Lighthouse | 1 comment | Continued

AMR/Burton clients: don’t drop your guard

What are the first signs of change at AMR Research in the wake of its purchase by Gartner? How does it bode for Burton Group? In this guest post by Dr Tony Law, the InformationSpan CEO summarises Gartner’s recent AR Community call, with its update on both the Burton and AMR acquisitions.
From the point of […]

8Jan2010 | Lighthouse | 1 comment | Continued

Join our Gartner-Burton webinar to hear insider opinion

Advance note: Lighthouse Analyst Relations and InformationSpan are scheduling a free webcast to explore the implications of Gartner’s acquisition of Burton Group. There will be actions for enterprise IT users who either (a) are Burton clients, and need to work out what’s going to happen to their service; or (b) are Gartner clients and may […]

8Jan2010 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | Continued

Gartner’s purchase of Burton is a ‘double-whammy’, so the fight’s for second place

Gartner’s purchase of Burton Group continues the M&A process flowing through the analyst industry under the impact of the recession. The initial analysis that I found most interesting was by Phil Fersht. As always, Carter had a good summary of the bits and bytes.
I don’t think Gartner “needed” Burton but I think it is a […]

6Jan2010 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | Continued

Expanding Ovum was the smartest industry move of the year

Datamonitor’s decision to integrate Butler, Ovum and the Datamonitor Technology business is looking like the major strategic move by one of the analyst firms this year. The integration has not been perfect, and Ovum doesn’t threaten Gartner or Forrester’s leadership. However, it lifts Ovum up in almost every way, and has brought it to the […]

22Dec2009 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | Continued
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