Lighthouse’s Advisor Spotlight continues this month with our annual survey of Yankee Group, on Thursday September 23. What a year it’s been! Last year, Yankee’s opportunities and issues were very clear. Yankee’s development looked positive to AR managers in 2007. [...]
Many analyst relations professionals have misunderstood the implications of last week’s lay-offs at Yankee Group. Yankee Group has ended coverage of a number of technologies (generally more mature ones), and laid off analysts covering areas with less customer demand, in [...]
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 [...]
Two firms that have both reoriented themselves over the last year, Jupiter and Yankee, are developing similarly deep focus on online, business-to-consumer, technologies. It’s less of an evolution for Jupiter (whose announced name-change from Jupiter Research to JupiterKagan seems to [...]
