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.
Omdia continues to fill out its senior positions with the appointment of Roy Illsley as Chief Analyst for the 50-strong Enterprise team.
It’s been fascinating to watch Ovum for the past 15+ or so years, acquiring Butler Group, merging and un-merging with Datamonitor, buying RHK and then been purchased by event giant Informa. The last chapter saw Informa buying the research-part of IHS, namely IHS Markit Technology (August 2019), Tractica (July 2018) and moving it all into …
Fashionably late but always on point and by popular request here’s the IIAR Tragic Quadrant 2018, a representation of how Analyst Relations Professionals (AR Pros) have rated analyst firms in the 2018 survey we ran for the Analyst and Firm of the Year 2018. For new readers here, the Tragic Quadrant is of course a …
Informa (INF.L) has acquired IHS Markit’s (INFO) TMT business. Informa Tech, which includes Ovum, will have revenues similar to Forrester’s $350m. It represents a dramatic shift in the analyst landscape. Informa announced the transaction on 22 May as part of an exchange of Informa’s agribusiness service for IHS Markit’s TMT portfolio, including the OTT and …
[GUEST POST] Informa adds IHS Markit tech analysts to equal Forrester Read More »
By Barry Rabkin (LinkedIn, @Impactoftech), President & Principal Analyst, Market Insight Group, Ltd. I was fortunate to become an insurance industry analyst in 1997. Before that time, I had worked in the business side of the insurance industry for 17 years (primarily in marketing and/or market research across all major lines of business) and then due to, …
[GUEST POST] Looking Back at Three Analyst Firms by Barry Rabkin / Market Insight Group Read More »
Who’d have thought Christmas would come this early? Grab a glass of bubbles, put on the festive music and light the fire. It’s time to unveil the IIAR Analyst Of The Year award winners. 2018 was a year in which influencer relations became more important in delivering business impact, and so unsurprisingly analysts’ voices have …
IIAR> Analyst Of The Year 2018: The Awards Unwrapped. Read More »
We were very sad and shocked to hear the news that Brian Riggs of Ovum and No Jitter died this weekend in a swimming accident. He was truly one of the best, and the analyst world is poorer without him. Dave Michels of TalkingPointz has written a very lovely post about Brian which is very …
The temperature may be dropping, but things have been heating up in the analyst community. Yes, it’s that time of year when we ask you to put the analysts themselves under the spotlight. The 2017 IIAR Analyst of the Year Award nominations saw some hot competition, but inevitably there can be only one winner (well, …
IIAR Cafe with David Rossiter and Ovum, 6th April 2017, Central London
The Tragic Quadrant is compiled from data collected as part of the IIAR Analyst of the Year Survey, where, annually, we invite analyst relations professionals to rate individual industry analyst and the firms they work for.
At the beginning, the intent was pure. Industry analysts, more specifically the buy-side “prescribers” exist to help technology buyers (often referred to as end-users) select the best vendors and providers. They gather insights through public and private sources such as (semi-)private vendor briefings and conversations (inquiries) with their end-user subscribers. Some analysts take hundreds of briefings and inquiries …
Constellation and the curse of the (not so) magic quadrant Read More »
Around Tim Jennings, Chief Research Officer and Research Fellow, from Ovum in 10 questions, from Asia- Pac to the US, Tim reminds us that there is no substitue for talking and relationship is the key element in AR
IIAR webinar and IIAR café with @ovum_ict on the 26/6 #archat
What’s going on at @OvumICT? By @DMRossiter #archat
It’s official @OvumICT merges w/ @Informatm #archat
Ex. @ovum chief @hbazuma joins @451Research #archat http://wp.me/p9yEt-3lD
@Ovumict, the quietly competent of the research industry? @richardmahony @ian_c_worth by @lludovic and @cdennington #archat
Analysis of analyst firms numbers by @IntelligenAR
