Here at Lighthouse we’re really wondering whether it’s possible to talk about services firms as a meaningful category. Take a look, for example, at the 2012 Influencer Quadrant for enterprise solutions. Even though this IQ excludes the major Powerhouse vendors, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
