Advance note: Lighthouse Analyst Relations and InformationSpan are scheduling a free webcast to explore the implications of Gartner’s acquisition of Burton Group. There will be actions for enterprise IT users who either (a) are Burton clients, and need to work [...]
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 hot news this week has been the decision of AMR Research to allow itself to be bought by Gartner. If you’re an AMR client you will already be aware of this, and be thinking about your action plan. If [...]
Praise goes to the IIAR for breaking the news (to me, at least) of Gartner’s purchase of AMR Research. The AR institute posted the news an hour before Gartner’s press release on BusinessWire started to pop up in the press. [...]
I was working from Gartner’s press room on the day that the story hit that ZL Technologiesis suing the firm for unfavourable coverage. Andrew Spender, VP Corporate Communications at Gartner and Brompton rider, gave me this statement on behalf of [...]
It was the best of Gartner; it was the worst of Gartner. It was the AR Forum of wisdom; it was the AR Forum of foolishness. Analyst Relations managers crowded into the Boardwalk on October 20 for Gartner’s annual session [...]
The annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo has a rather different air about it this year: numbers are down (I hear there are around 5,000 people although it always feels smaller to me than the stated numbers), heads are down and the dress [...]
The new analyst relations newsletter from Gartner is now online. A centerpiece interview with Heidi Melin, CMO of Polycom will interest many readers. Research GVP Jenni Lehman gives recent a preview of the Evidence Sidebar while Nancy Erskine summarises changes [...]
Duncan Chapple’s webinar on Gartner ended with a powerful discussion between participants on the company’s strategy. This memorandum summarises some of the comments made in the webinar presentation and discussion. Because we follow the Chatham House rule, the note doesn’t [...]
The discussion in last week’s webinar focussed on the idea that Gartner’s response to the temporary decline in its market has been to cut costs and to focus on the most profitable customers. That’s no surprise, of course. The firm [...]
