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At SAP’s Influencer Summit last week, I had the chance to trade thoughts and notes with a number of colleagues — including fellow bloggers/former analysts as well as current analysts — about whether it made sense for companies that currently find themselves in the renewal phrase of a contract with Gartner and AMR to pull the trigger or wait until more firm integration plans develop. Now, it’s possible to have a bit of fun and write about this subject satirically. But it’s also important to take the issue seriously, since many organizations, both vendors and practitioners, are currently wondering how best to allocate their funds for 2010 with an incomplete set of information to make a fully informed decision.
In my view, I’ve been telling my own clients and colleagues in the procurement sector that renewing with AMR is a no-brainer given that Mickey North Rizza and other key analysts have signed NDAs which prohibit them from joining competitive analyst firms (and which suggest that they will be going over to Gartner, and plan to continue to develop their practices there). But the renewal that I’m not so sure that I’d sign at the moment is, surprisingly, with Gartner. While I suspect that Gartner will continue to dedicate significant analyst research and effort to this area, I have not yet seen a research-integration plan that highlights the differences between what Gartner and AMR will cover, and how the two will integrate their research efforts.
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