The Covid_19 and economic impact of lockdown is making 2020 truly unique, squeezing budgets for all companies. Most technology vendors hold contracts with the likes of Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Omdia, 451 and others ; and renewals for 2021 are predictably going to be tense.
As the largest analyst firm, everyone in analyst relations is impacted by their relationship with Gartner. From contract negotiations to account management to research coverage, our AR programs are greatly impacted by Gartner’s offerings, communications.
Feeling the pinch in your Gartner negotiation?
You’re not alone -many members have commented on Gartner’s hard stance and cowboy attitude during negotiations. Out goes partnership and value selling, in comes multi-year lock-in contracts, no discounts policy and no more sweeteners such as Symposium tickets.
Building on our previous conversations niruddho Mukherjee and Ludovic Leforestier will chair run a IIAR Discussion with IIAR members, looking at Gartner’s commercial practices and solutions on the 15th February 2018 at 1600 GMT.
This year’s keynote theme: the Continuous Next Strategy Gartner Symposium, Gartner’s flagship event in Europe, attracted more than 8,000 visitors this year, and met or exceeded expectations, at least mine. The analysts were brilliant, inspiring speakers on stage and great advisors in the one2one meetings. This was the first time in Europe that Mike Harris …
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IIAR event: Negotiating-with-gartnerfor all Analyst Relations teams
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What – IIAR Discussion Group – Negotiating your Contract with Gartner When – Thursday the 22nd January 2015 @ 4pm GMT, 5pm CET, 12 Noon – New York Where – IIAR Webinar Who: Discussion initiated and will be chaired by Aniruddho Mukherjee (Head of AR and Branding Manager, Europe for HCL Technologies) Register Here – To attend please …
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