Boutiques
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 […]
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 | Editorial | 1 comment | ContinuedHow Pierre Audoin Consultants hit the mainstream
On December 17 we ran a webinar to take a closer look at Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). Close watchers of the services industry will need no introduction to PAC, one of Europe’s oldest industry analyst firms. The sort of projects it wins are instructive: it has been appointed by the EC to lead a consortium […]
9Dec2009 | Editorial | 0 comments | ContinuedAnalyst CEO asks ‘why do vendors spend with firms that don’t influence buyers?’
Part 1 would fall in the category that I labeled “consultant”. the second category would explain how some seemingly clueless firms manage to survive. (The emperors do like to be complimented about their new clothers.) I agree with you about the end user side. I would also add that, like vendors, end user requirements […]
21Feb2009 | Editorial | 0 comments | ContinuedCan Burton continue to grow in the end-user market?
Each year February Lighthouse’s Advisor Spotlight webinar discusses Burton Group. A few years ago Burton started to to be seen as one of the analyst firms to watch, winning it a top place in our 2006 survey, especially in terms of end-user influence. It has been one of the five fastest growing firms.
When Gartner and […]
Like it or not, the analysts’ business model is not broken
If the business model was broken then top analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester would underperform their competitors: that’s the key point underpinning our recent defence of analysts. In fact, the top firms are increasing their lead. Their approach is producing unhappy customers (See the comment here) but any resulting loss in customers is much […]
10Feb2009 | Duncan Chapple | 3 comments | ContinuedPAC launches newsletter for AR professionals
The first issue of PAC in Focus seems to have gone down well, since the newsletter from PAC is now on a quartely schedule. I always feel that AR managers should pay special attention to the newslatters from analyst firms when looking for models for the newsletters they want to send to analysts.
24Dec2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | ContinuedSpotlight on Pierre Audoin Consultants
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), one of Europe’s oldest analyst and consulting companies, is increasingly under the spotlight as it expands from its French and German heartlands. The IIAR interviewed PAC this week, and Lighthouse is taking a more critical look at the firm in our webinar on December 18th.
3Dec2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | ContinuedBurton makes good progress with IT1
We just saw this news that Burton Group has been making good progress with its IT1 offer. Back in May we said that Current Analysis and Burton were two analyst firms that were well placed to withstand any future recession. It now expects a majority of its clients to adopt IT1, which gives clients enterprise-wide […]
30Sep2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | ContinuedHolway 2.0? TechMarketView launches UK software & services research
They’re putting the band back together. Richard Holway, perhaps Europe’s best known analyst, and Anthony Miller, one of the UK’s leading software and services analysts, have launched TechMarketView. The firm will continue HotViews, Holway’s ongoing service providng comment on the UK services and software market.
We’ll be speaking with them soon to find out what reaction […]
Verdantix: the only climate change business research firm in your or any other town
We met with David Metcalfe, one of the founders and a Director at Verdantix this week. David will be familiar to you from his Forrester Research analyst and vice-president roles over the past 8 years.
Verdantix is a traditional analyst research company in its business model, but it is far from that when it comes to […]
9Sep2008 | Martin Tilling | 6 comments | ContinuedUS firms’ analysts in China advise your competitors, not your clients
Barbara French, a savvy follower of the analyst industry, notes that the expansion of US analyst firms into China is unlikely to produce meaningful influence on technology purchasing there - but does boost the analysts’ credibility with US vendor clients.
However, Barbara suggests that these analysts could start to influence buying in China: “Monitoring decision-makers in […]
I think what has changed is not AR but the fact that social media is a mainstream platform for content/opnion ...
Actually, I wrote my own NDA agreement (in my URL). Smaller vendors, as a rule, are fine with it. Multibillion ...
Excellent wise and solid advice as ever Duncan 
Hi Arpit,
The top analyst firm is certainly Gartner [www.gartner.com]. Email us if you have any other questions.
Duncan. 
