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 [...]
With 650 analysts, Gartner has the largest research team of any analyst firm. Of course, only a minority can be of above-average importance. A correspondent of mine suggests that even if the number of analysts at Gartner is high, it’s [...]
More former META executives are popping up at Experton Group. Former META Group Geschäftsführer Jürgen Brettel is now listed on the firm’s web site as its Chief Executive Officer, while former META Vice-President Rüdiger Spies has joined the firm’s advisory [...]
Experton Group LLC has a new CEO: Luis Praxmarer, one of the key figures in the German IT market. Luis was formerly led META Group’s EMEA business, and owned and founded META Group Germany, which was acquired by Gartner in [...]
Experton has pinched former TechConsult analyst Carlo Velten to start an Investment Advisory service for holding companies and IT enterprises. Velten is an investment specialist who will be Experton’s senior advisor responsible for the development of Investment Advisory services. Experton [...]
Experton Group has just published a survey of 60 German enterprises on their IT priorities, budget plans, outsourcing inclinations, industry trends and preferred suppliers in the IT field. The surveys suggest that German firms plan expenditure increases between 5 and [...]
Experton Group, the analysts formerly known as Meton, have been forced by Gartner to cancel its conference. The conference at Munich’s Kempinski Hotel was planned for 27 and 28 September 2005. Lawyers acting for Gartner’s META Group brand have won [...]
META refugees Meton Group have rebranded, as we anticipated in a post last week, under threat from Gartner’s lawyers. Today the firm is announcing that it has relaunched as Experton Group. The firm’s website is online at http://www.experton-group.de/. P.S. Experton’s [...]
Gartner, aided by what legally remains of META, has won a provisional order in the Hamburg regional court against Meton Group. Amongst other things, Meton is forbidden from using its web domains and probably will need to change its name. [...]
An interesting comment arrived today from a reader in Germany (After the US, the country with the most readers of this blog at the moment) who has been looking at Meton Group (P.S. Now called Experton). Like many US analyst [...]
