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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Now 30 years since its foundation, Pierre Audoin Consultants has come a very long way forward and reached around the globe with their proposition of local and global research and consulting on a wide range of IS markets. PAC has [...]
Dave Kellogg, a Silicon Valley marketer and blogger, recently provided commentary on a previous article from Alan Pelz-Sharpe of CMS Watch. Alan’s article covered rules he thinks vendors should follow when dealing with independent analysts. Overall, of course, Alan and [...]
Telecoms specialists Analysys Mason are expanding more into the software space though their purchase of OSS Observer. The announcement is here. Considering the weakness of the US dollar, we’ll perhaps see more purchases of US firms from Europe in the [...]
The IIAR survey has prompted the Wikinomics blog to ask “who needs analyst firms anyway“? The article echos some of the themes in Jonny’s article, In praise of open source analysis, which last year discussed the trend for analyst firms [...]
