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The IIAR Analyst of the year 2010 winners are: Recap of the IIAR Analyst of the year 2010 winners: Phil Fersht / Horses for Sources, Gartner, Phil Dawson / Gartner, John Rymer / Forrester, Liz Herbert / Forrester, Dane Anderson / Gartner, Phil Fhersht / Horses for Sources, Chris Barnard / IDC, Thomas Murphy / Gartner, Chris Mines / Forrester, David Metcalfe / Verdantix, Charlene Li / Altimeter Group
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Today’s star analyst in our reasonably priced Around in 10 Questions series is Douglas Hayward from at IDC. You can find Douglas at Twitter under @douglashayward. 1. What are your coverage areas? From October 2010 (earlier in reality), I’ll be co-ordinating IDC’s Western European IT services and business services forecasts (business services basically means business
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Today’s star analyst in our Around in 10 Questions series is Michael Fauscette (@mfauscette) in IDC’s software team.
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The July IIAR London Forum, hosted by Waggoner-Edstrom in Covent Garden, was well attended by IIAR members. IDC analyst Martin Canning was joined by Philippe de Marcillac, Executive Vice President, International Business Units and provided valuable insight into IDCs global operations and coverage.
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We still have a few places left for next Tuesday’s IIAR> Analyst Relations Forum which features an IDC update with analyst Martin Canning, Vice President, IDC EMEA. Members should please RSVP to the secretary’s invitation.
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IDC EMEA is hiring the three following positions: Research Analyst, Services EMEA ; Consulting Manager, Services EMEA ; Senior Research Analyst, Energy insights.
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Our next IIAR> London Analyst Relations Forum is set for Tuesday, July 27th. We are delighted to welcome guest analyst Martin Canning, Vice President of IDC EMEA who will provide an update on strategy, research agendas, and how to best work with IDC. The Forum kicks off at 3:45 p.m. with a limited number of
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Nicholas McQuire has recently joined IDC as Director of Research, EMEA Enterprise Mobility, hot from BT Global Services. He accepted to answer our infamous “Around in 10 questions” interview, thanks to him!
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In this post and in the comment, AR professionals and analysts will find useful tips and best practices on the Gartner Mqgic Quadrant (also applies to the Forrester Wave and IDC Insights Short Lists).
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Our guest post today is from Lisa Rowan (LinkedIn, @lisarowan), IDC’s Program Director for HR, Learning and Talent Strategies. Read on for Lisa’s tips for briefing analysts from the analyst perspective. There are excellent resources available to assist the AR profession including IIAR but on this side of the briefing table, it seems like that advice is
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For 2009, the AR and IT research community will need to work closely together. The year won’t be very easy economically, and we believe it is crucial to keep the exchange of viewpoints alive. This post also contains part one of two of a podcast with an IIAR board member.
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Do you like filling in Vendor Briefing forms?
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And the winner for the IIAR analyst of the year is….
The IIAR Analyst of the Year survey — and the winner is…. Read More »
The IIAR has started a series of email interviews, where analysts from around the world are presented. We have talked to Rüdiger Spies from IDC . Thanks again fo him for the time he spent to give us some insight about IDC and the industry. 1. What are your coverage areas? A) It’s
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We have heard today (from three sources) that IDG, the parent of IDC, intends to buy Silver Lake Partners’ share in Gartner and the holdings of CEO Eugene Hall. As part of the deal Neil Bradford, former head of Forrester Americas, and Anthony Parslow, until recently head of Datamonitor, will replace Gene Hall as co-CEOs.
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At Thursday’s IIAR forum in London I presented results from a recent survey of vendor-side Analyst Relations managers. It asked how influential they rated certain analyst firms as being, and then whether they are rising of falling in influence. Credit for the survey belongs to Jonny Bentwood and the others on the IIAR’s survey working
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