We’ll be running our annual CIO Survey again this year (RSS readers will also see that we’ve created a CIO Survey tag). This is a unique survey: it surveys an international group of CIOs and other senior buyers of enterprise-scale [...]
The number of unique visitors to Analyst Equity this quarter has just reached a new high, topping 6,300. That’s roughly double the readership we had throughout the second half of 2005, when we started tracking visits. In fact, the real [...]
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 [...]
The observations of an English friend in Texas seem to counter some of the observations in our annual survey of CIOs. Our research found that the reach of industry analysts extends deep down into the mid-market. Around two-thirds of companies [...]
Each January Lighthouse surveys an international group of CIOs to find out how, and why, they are using industry analysts. The scale of the study is quite unique. Across Europe, for example, we surveying more than 100 CIOs in each [...]
CMP’s magazine for CIOs, Optimize, has surveyed its readers and concluded that most of them find Gartner to be the most influential firm. This is what they say — add up the numbers with me. “A full 73% of more [...]
Industry analyst firms, like Gartner, AMR, Forrester, and Ovum represent a multi-billion dollar market of specialist advisory firms that consult to large enterprises on the basis of an independent research agenda. That influence is strong across almost every market sector. [...]
Techtel’s IT spending forecasts came our way today. It’s a fascinating piece of empiricism. Techtel’s forecast averages estimates, by a panel of interested individuals, about changes in the IT environment [1]. What Techtel does is certainly easier than tracking spending [...]
