Advisor Spotlight

Thursday: What Gartner’s haste, hype and sales can (and can’t) do

At 11 am Eastern time we’re repeating our webinar to review recent changes at Gartner. It’s been interesting to see the feedback we’ve been getting from folk over the last month. A number of these suggest that Gartner is increasing its lead on Forrester in client numbers (although Forrester’s building deeper relationships, and there’s more […]

20Aug2009 | Editorial | 1 comment | Continued

Can Burton continue to grow in the end-user market?

Each year February Lighthouse’s Advisor Spotlight webinar discusses Burton Group. A few years ago Burton started to to be seen as one of the analyst firms to watch, winning it a top place in our 2006 survey, especially in terms of end-user influence. It has been one of the five fastest growing firms.
When Gartner and […]

13Feb2009 | Doreen Mwendah | 0 comments | Continued

Yankee Group’s future discussed in this month’s webinar

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. Now things are not so rosy.

21Oct2008 | Duncan Chapple | 1 comment | Continued

Why Gartner surged 30% after a year underwater

Lighthouse’s August webinar discusses recent changes at Gartner. As this chart shows, Gartner’s stock has underperformed NASDAQ for most of the last year. But over the last month the firm’s shares have soared 25% (by an odd coincidence, most of this growth was prior to the release of the firm’s H2 results on July 30, […]

8Aug2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | Continued

The value and post-acquisition performance of Informa

Guest post by Aleksandra Bosnjak, Lead TMT Analyst at StrategyEye, in advance of our recent webinar.
Informa, the UK-based B2B publishing and conference giant which just broke off its talks with UBM for a merger, now has another possible group of bidders: private equity groups Providence Equity Partners and Carlyle are working on a USD3.53bn cash […]

23Jun2008 | Aleksandra Bosnjak | 0 comments | Continued

Big stakes in Informa sale: Aleksandra Bosnjak on webinar panel

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 professional insight into the challenges facing clients and future buyers of the firm. Aleksandra Bosnjak […]

18Jun2008 | Lotte Reddemann | 1 comment | Continued

Current Analysis caught in the spotlight

Over the last few years Current Analysis has gained increasing profile with telecom operators and vendors. The firm’s attractive and digestible research has won it many tens of thousands of users across its client organisations. As we first discussed in 2005, its immediate reaction to industry events has given it an almost unique space in […]

7May2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | Continued

Gartner ends a cycle started by META purchase

This month Lighthouse will be running our annual Gartner webinar. It’s part of our Advisor Spotlight analysis, reviewing changes at the largest analyst firms. Investors have their own analysis, which is why the stock halved in value during the last year, from $28 in May last year to $14 in January. Lighthouse is not in […]

8Apr2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | Continued

Burton Group uses growth to reach up to the boardroom

Burton Group was the focus of today’s Advisor Spotlight webinar. Recently we’ve been in an interesting discussion here about the rise of new forms of vendor-sponsored research, and the discussion was a useful corrective. It reminded us that end-user organisations (corporates, government, academic etc.) are increasingly turning to non-vendor funded analysts’ research and advisory services.
IT […]

24Feb2008 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

AMR Research comes under the spotlight in January

Our first Advisor Spotlight webinar in 2008 will discuss AMR Research, the leading analyst firm focussed on the supply chain. AMR has shown an interesting evolution over the last year. It increasingly speaks about the “value chain”, and has broadened its research interests out to intersections of business, ERP and supply processes.
It’s also made […]

30Nov2007 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Webinar to explain PAC’s rapid rise

The final ‘Advisor Spotlight’ webinar of 2007 will focus on PAC and its rising influence. Pierre Audoin Consultants is one of Europe’s oldest analyst firms. Its unique staffing model means that its analysts work as researchers, consultants and account managers for their topics. This deep domain experience and strong client rapport means PAC has been […]

21Nov2007 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Monday: another chance for our webinar on Ovum

The rapid pace of change at Ovum means that clients has asked us to schedule an extra time for our Advisor Spotlight webinar on Ovum.
As with all our Advisor Spotlight sessions, we will discuss Ovum’s evolution, new services, target markets and pricing challenges. However, we’ll also discuss if Ovum should be put up for sale, […]

15Nov2007 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued
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