CIO Survey

2007 CIO survey set for April

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 high technology solutions. We gave an outline of the methodology in 2005. Last year firms […]

16Feb2007 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Why did Analyst Equity readership double in 2006?

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 number of visits would be few hundred higher, but we lost some data when we upgraded […]

21Dec2006 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Vendors name rising analysts: Forrester, Gartner, Ovum, Aberdeen and Burton

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 shown on the right hand side.
Participants in the study received the results this morning, […]

9Jun2006 | Editorial | 2 comments | Continued

Cross-cultural errors feed false impressions

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 with over 1,000 employees have CIOs using analyst research. Our correspondent repeats many of the […]

2Mar2006 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

How do tech buyers really use analysts?

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 key markets — giving our last study 12 times more technology buyers than our friends at […]

21Dec2005 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

‘Optimize’ ranks the analysts, fails math test

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 than 1,000 Optimize readers surveyed ranked Gartner as the most-influential analyst firm. Competitors lagged significantly: Forrester […]

20Oct2005 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Effective AR accelerates revenue growth

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. Analysts influence between 40% and 60% of commercial technology deals in the United States, and […]

4Aug2005 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Scientific averages of wild guesses

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 itself, however the results are worthless. Their figures for 2004, for example, show average growth […]

24Jun2005 | Editorial | 1 comment | Continued