Well, it’s that time of the year when thoughts turn to holiday parties, mistletoe and… the annual deluge of analyst predictions for the coming year. For example, the rollout of Gartner’s Top …
Read moreTime to take a minute to check in with what’s up with the analyst ecosystem and social media. Atwitter about Twitter – Twitter continues to be a hot topic in general with …
Read moreAn interesting exercise is to compare the relative web traffic between the largest advisory analyst firm (Gartner), the largest IT market research firm (IDC) and a very visible analyst who has his …
Read moreSageCircle came across Forrester research associate Timothy DeGennaro (Twitter handle) the other day while looking for analysts to add to the Analyst Twitter Directory. Research associates are typically recent college graduates who assist …
Read moreQuestion: A common question SageCircle has been receiving concerns the likelihood that there will be acquisitions of analyst firms during the current recession. During a recession, companies with strong balance sheets often …
Read moreWell, it was a pretty fair amount. And the lion’s share went to Gartner of course. Gartner got at least $121,000,000 in the last four years. See below for a table of spending …
Read moreMike dropped by the analyst and AR meet up that SageCircle hosted on Monday, January 12, 2009 in the Silicon Valley. We asked Mike (blog, Twitter handle) to explain how he uses social …
Read moreThe clump of departures of social media analysts – Brian Haven, Peter Kim and Charlene Li (from Forrester), and Rachel Happe (from IDC) – is not at all unusual and follows typical …
Read moreThe Forrester announcement about acquiring JupiterResearch got me thinking about which acquistions in the analyst industry worked and which ones did not. I thought I would call on the collective memory of the …
Read moreNews is that IDC Research Director Rachel Happe (Twitter handle, blog) and Forrester VP & Principal Analyst Charlene Li (Twitter handle, blogless for now) are leaving their firms. These departures are big blows for both firms, …
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