October 2008

Kudos to the Gartner Ombudsman for asking tough questions

I read this post on the new Gartner Ombudsman blog today: How confidential is “confidential” information? It’s about what happens when an analysts defects to join your competitors. Granted, there is no simple answer and in reality we’re in a very incestuous industry, but kudos to Nancy Erskine for asking tough questions. Personally, my sense

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IIAR> launches the AR Café with opportunity to meet Ray Wang

The IIAR> is launching the AR Café with an opportunity to meet Forrester Research Vice President and Principal Analyst, Ray Wang, on November 11th in London. The AR Cafe is an opportunity to meet analysts and network with other members in an informal setting. Members who would like to come along, please drop a line

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Are local analysts “untouched” and influential?

Following a long week at Oracle Open World, I attended the West Coast IIAR meeting organised by Peggy O’Neil from H&K and hosted by Evan Quinn from HP, with several of my colleagues and a room full of AR peers. Carter from SageCircle interviewed me (and Annemiek Hamelink from Wagged) after that exhausting week:Oracle’s Ludovic

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Around David Mitchell / Ovum in 10 questions

We have the pleasure today of  welcoming David Mitchell, Senior Vice President, IT Research, Ovum and Research Fellow, Datamonitor Group. David has his own blog on IT issues in Asian and other emerging economies: Geosophical Technologies. What are your coverage areas? Very wide. I’ve published about a range of things. In terms of industry verticals I’ve

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