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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

Oxford insight on how social media anticipates analyst trends

Impact of social media is overestimated in the short-term and overestimated in the long-term: what was the message from the Oxford Social Media Conference last week. I was lucky to be invited to the event, held at its Said Business School. Thinking over the day, and especially comments by Richard Sambrook, I think the four […]

23Sep2009 | Lighthouse | 2 comments | Continued

Datamonitor, Ovum & Butler cohabitation makes AR easier

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 […]

13Jul2009 | Duncan Chapple | 2 comments | Continued

Informa’s potential buyers walk away from the deal

Informa, which owns Datamonitor, Ovum and Butler, stays on the shelf after Providence Equity Partners walked away from its planned purchase of the group. It would have been one of the largest private equity deals, and was never certain. As we discussed, the lack of synergies across the sprawling Informa group continue to make it […]

19Sep2008 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | Continued

Holway: Providence Equity bids world record amount for Informa

A quick ‘heads up’ from Richard:Informa gets bid from private equity consortium led by Providence Equity. Depending on whose maths you trust, the bid is more or less $6 billion: less according to The Times, but almost $7 billion according to the Financial Times (the FT correctly notes that the value of Informa’s debt also […]

2Jul2008 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | Continued

The value and post-acquisition performance of Informa

Guest post by Aleksandra Bosnjak, Lead TMT Analyst at StrategyEye, in advance of our recent webinar.
Informa, the UK-based B2B publishing and conference giant which just broke off its talks with UBM for a merger, now has another possible group of bidders: private equity groups Providence Equity Partners and Carlyle are working on a USD3.53bn cash […]

23Jun2008 | Aleksandra Bosnjak | 0 comments | Continued

Big stakes in Informa sale: Aleksandra Bosnjak on webinar panel

Duncan Chapple and Aleksandra Bosnjak have been billed as speakers for for our Informa webinar on the possible sale of the firm. Since both were formerly analysts at Ovum, part of the Informa group, they bring both a personal and professional insight into the challenges facing clients and future buyers of the firm. Aleksandra Bosnjak […]

18Jun2008 | Lotte Reddemann | 1 comment | Continued

On sale - Informa T&M, Datamonitor, Ovum and Butler

Informa is being bought, but by whom? United Business Media, the UK publishing giant, started the bidding and then dropped out. Now private equity groups are in play, such as Providence are bidding. The primary logic for a merger with UBM was the economies of scale in combining two large business media and exhibitions groups. […]

10Jun2008 | Duncan Chapple | 3 comments | Continued

Datamonitor’s playbook offers Ovum a different future

Datamonitor CEO Mark Meek met us last week to explain to us his plans for Ovum. A touchstone in the conversation was the highly effective turn-around of Datamonitor’s once-struggling health-care business at the start of this decade. His direct involvement in that appears to have given him a well-formed and specific understanding of the needs […]

16May2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | Continued
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