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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There’s trouble at t’ Ovum mill. Two of the firm’s star IT research directors, Gary Barnett and Ian Wesley, have left the firm. Gary and Ian have been absolutely central to Ovum’s growth into IT analysis over the last decade. [...]
