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 [...]
Is Ovum, one of the most successful European-headquartered analyst firms, at a tipping point? Its new owners, Datamonitor, have a few months in which to decide whether to renew Ovum’s reputation for broad and distinctive research, or whether to stay [...]
Would Yankee Group be a better owner of Ovum than Datamonitor? That’s one of the questions kicked around in last week’s Advisor Spotlight, our monthly discussion about leading analyst firms. It’s an interesting question. Datamonitor had strong grounds for buying [...]
Informa has announced that it will purchase Datamonitor for £502 million: around $1 billion. It is an astonishing price, reflecting more than a ten percent premium over the firm’s market capitalisation. In contrast, Forrester Research’s capitalisation is currently $700 million. [...]
Datamonitor’s technology analysts in London have moved into spare space at Cardinal Tower, which also houses Ovum. While this will cut traveling times for vendors on tour, it’s still business as usual at both those analyst firms. This year Datamonitor’s [...]
As predicted, there’s a lot of change at Ovum as its purchase by Datamonitor moves ahead. Chief Research Officer, Tony Lavender, has been set to leave the company since the summer. However, the news follows the recent departure of Daniel [...]
Having spoken this week to Datamonitor and Ovum executives, Lighthouse has concluded that Datamonitor’s acquisition of Ovum is quite unlike those of most other analyst firms. While META and Giga both had uneven business performance, Ovum’s proven record of fast [...]
[Update: Some people found this article misleading. Two new posts now clarify the value of free research and the sources of analyst influence. Web traffic contributes to the influence of analyst firms, but that measurement by itself is a weak [...]
There’s been a nasty spat over on ARmadgeddon over the question of whether industry analysts spend enough time researching. Look here, there and everywhere. The dispute is this: the clatch at ARmadgeddon think that analysts don’t spend enough time collecting [...]
Datamonitor – Corporate Announcements: After the recent purchase of META by Gartner, Datamonitor (which has bought Computerwire) announced the purchase of Butler Group. Strategically, this is interesting. While Datamonitor is closer to Computerwire’s core business, Butler is a little further [...]
