Ovum

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

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 | Editorial | 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

When analysts leave, they get hired

As recession edges closer a number of analysts are being tempted by better offers elsewhere. Some of the recent departures in the UK include Ovum’s Eric Woods (who leaves today to join Chris Dines’ new venture) and Bola Rotibi (joining MWD), and Marta Munoz Mendez-Villamil (who is now at IDC). We also heard that Ed […]

18Jun2008 | Editorial | 1 comment | 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

Ovum at the tipping point?

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 on the road that will lead to Ovums development into a simple diffusion brand, which […]

11Apr2008 | Duncan Chapple | 3 comments | Continued

Lighthouse to host AR Institute on April 3

The next Institute of Industry Analyst Relations Forum will take place here at the Technopark, Lighthouse Analyst Relations‘ London office (a map is here). As an Ovum alumnus, I’m especially happy that Chris Lewis, Senior Vice President with Ovum, will be the guest speaker.
Forums are open to IIAR members but space is limited. Members who […]

16Feb2008 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Ovum CEO’s next venture targets SMB CFOs

Ovum’s former (and final) CEO Chris Dines and Fash Darabi (previously Managing Director, Ovum Telecoms) are in the midst of launching a new business. It’s called Knowledge Peers, and is a service targeted at financial decision makers in small and medium enterprises.
Chris writes: “It combines ready access to high quality advice and support together with […]

28Jan2008 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

AR managers rate Forrester, IDC, Ovum and Yankee as risers

I’ve just been looking at the results from a recent survey of vendor-side Analyst Relations managers. It asked how influential they rated certain analyst firms as being, and then whether they are rising of falling in influence.
I don’t know the criteria for which firms are, or are not listed, but the main firms are all […]

6Dec2007 | Editorial | 1 comment | Continued
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