In an interactive webinar yesterday we discussed how Gartner’s focus on selling individual research seats is producing new opportunities for IDC and other firms to meet the growing demand for consulting and events. IDC’s striking success in growing its events [...]
Douglas Hayward, senior analyst on the Holway@Ovum service, has left the firm to join IDC. Holway was one of Ovum’s most senior hires from the journalist community. Until 2003 he had worked on the Financial Times. During the dot.com boom, [...]
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 [...]
According to BtoBOnline, IDC has found that spending on analyst relations has risen to 28% of the spending on public relations by technology suppliers. The report by Kate Maddox (ex-@d:tech and Advertising Age) summarises IDC’s conference call on Thursday which [...]
Which analyst firms have increased their influence the post over the last year? Our 2006 survey of IT and telecoms vendors’ staff says that the answer is Forrester, Gartner, Ovum, Aberdeen and Burton — in that order: the results are [...]
