Open Source

"Open Source"? Or Crowd Surfing?

During a recent blog post discussing what many are referring to as open source analysts, I made some comments about one specific company, Freeform Dynamics, that with hindsight could have been interpreted as calling into the question the integrity and objectivity of its research.
Following an exchange with the company, I would like to make it […]

8Jun2007 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | Continued

Longhaus: what’s the difference with open source analysis?

Sam Higgins has written an article evaluating OSA, a project on open source and alternative analysis, in the new issue of Longview, the newsletter of Australian analyst firm Longhaus.
Higgins stresses the need of analysis to be set in context, and how services are often needed to make research useable.
When considering the role of OSA within […]

27Apr2007 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | Continued

How independent are independent analysts?

Analyst relations is a niche activity. That encourages analysts relations managers to look to other communications areas to learn from and co-operate with. One of these is investor relations, which has benefitted from the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary publishing transcripts of a day hearing from experts on the relative independence of analysts from […]

10Mar2007 | Lighthouse | 2 comments | Continued

Ward-Dutton and Chapple to discuss open source analysis

The open source approach to industry analysis is an interesting approach to exploiting the power of the internet to analyse a product/vendor. Recently, a number of leading figures in the analyst industry have come together to produce a wiki guide to open source analysts.
At its core of those firms’ mission is the belief that open […]

29Jan2007 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | Continued

Contraints on the influence of analysts’ blogs

Lighthouse’s regular CIO surveys continue to show that the international influence on buyers of blogs, and even of analysts’ blogs, is still modest. There’s a significant difference between the impact that different ‘channels’ of information have and, even if the number of readers is the same, the impact of the average blog posting is lower […]

4Jan2007 | Lighthouse | 1 comment | Continued

Open source approaches to analyst relations

Industry veterans Barbara French and Neil Macehiter are amongst those co-operating in a new wiki that aims to create a guide for enterprises doing business with analysts with ‘open source’ business models (other participants include Jon Collins, Dave Vile, James Governor, myself and others).
It’s an innovative approach and we’re encouraging folk to take part. If […]

3Jan2007 | Lighthouse | 2 comments | Continued