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(Satire) Not just for Rock Stars - Now Analysts/Influencers have contract riders!

(Satire) Not just for Rock Stars – Now Analysts/Influencers have contract riders!

By Brian Sommer on September 21, 2014

Contract riders are those special line items people slip into contracts. Some have a valid business purpose (like NO brown M&M’s) and others are a tribute to the requester’s vanity/ego. Do IT analysts/influencers have these? Your ace investigative reporter teamed with the always inscrutable and snarky Frank Scavo  to get to the bottom of this. […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged analyst relations, analysts, AR, enterprise software, Humor, influencers, parody

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So if the rockstars have gone, what’s left in the analyst industry?

By Phil Fersht on April 29, 2013

As we revealed last week, most of the big analyst personalities have seemingly fled the analyst industry…  many for the riches on offer from their vendor clients, clearly seeing more ROI from employing them, as opposed to purchasing their firm’s services. However, this hasn’t prevented the remaining legacy purveyors of analyst services from making a living. So […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged analysts, Humor, Marketing and Advertising, rockstar, Spin (public relations)

The 2012 Social CRM Tragic Quadrant

The 2012 Social CRM Tragic Quadrant

By Jeff Nolan on October 3, 2012

Last week the respected industry analyst firm Gartner Group released their 2012 Social CRM Magic Quadrant. For those of you who follow these proclamations, the inside baseball crowd, the MQ is an event unto itself and despite what anyone would suggest, it really is all about the 2×2 chart. The methodology of the MQ is […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged analysts, enterprise software, Gartner Group, Gartner MQ, Magic Quadrant, Social CRM | 6 Responses

(Humor) The Rosetta Stone of IT Industry Analysts

(Humor) The Rosetta Stone of IT Industry Analysts

By Brian Sommer on November 22, 2011

(Humor) Ever wonder what sort of people are industry analysts? Brian breaks down the different kinds of analysts as a favor to the numerous vendors worldwide who must endure their questions and quirks.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged analysts, Humor | 2 Responses

Shrinking Balls

Shrinking Balls

By John Taschek on February 10, 2011

In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged @jtaschek, analysts, bullying, chatter, Cloud Computing, cloudblog, Constellation, excel, Facebook, google, iPad/Apple, mean girls, microsoft, mobile, NetBase Solutions, platform, Ray Wang, real-time, salesforce.com, sentiment analysis, Shakespeare, Super Bowl, taschek, Twitter, Weblogs

Gartner: The Cloud is Not a Contract

Gartner: The Cloud is Not a Contract

By Bob Warfield on January 12, 2011

There is a bit of a joust on between Gartner, GigaOm, and likely others over the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure.  The Internet loves a good fight! Gartner launched their magic quadrant with some fanfare on December 22.  Immediately after the holidays, on January 4, GigaOm’s Derrick Harris threw down the gauntlet by […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, analysts, aws, Cloud, data center, gartner, Industry analyst, Magic Quadrant, SaaS, service, strategy | 6 Responses

Bloom & Wallace Release 2011 — Constellation Research Group

Bloom & Wallace Release 2011 — Constellation Research Group

By Naomi Bloom on January 11, 2011

In November, I posted the first installment of this series on planned changes in the mix and style of B&W consulting engagements/projects for 2011.  In December, I posted about the work I’ll be doing in 2011 with Mercer’s Human Capital Operations And Technology Solutions practice with a particular focus on their  Human Capital Connect solution powered by […]

Posted in Business | Tagged analysts, Bloom & Wallace Engagements, Constellation Research Group, ConstellationRG, disruptive technologies, HR Tech, HRM/IT Intersection, Industry Analysts

Infor's misguided, anonymous referral program

Infor’s misguided, anonymous referral program

By Michael Krigsman on December 23, 2010

Infor’s anonymous referral program appears to undermine the foundation of trust between advisors and their clients.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analysts, blunder, disclosure, Infor, referral

Going to Gartner

Going to Gartner

By Merv Adrian on November 19, 2010

This is a personal note about a professional decision. You might not be interested. If you are, read on. I’ll try to be brief. I’ve had a very fulfilling two years as an independent analyst, succeeding beyond my expectations. I established (or continued) a respected brand, gathered several thousand twitter followers, drew 80,000 blog views […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analysts, gartner, Industry Analysts, Industry Trends | 1 Response

Are Analysts the New Media?

Are Analysts the New Media?

By John Taschek on November 9, 2010

Technology media was further disrupted this morning when a seemingly minor announcement rocked the media world. The minor part is this – a new analyst firm was launched today. The disruptive part is that the assemblage of key influencers into one organization that is not advertiser driven. The new firm…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Altimeter Group, analysts, Cloud Computing, Constellation Research, ConstellationRG, Industry analyst, research, salesforce.com, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 7 Responses

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