Gartner Q1 FY08 Earnings - No decrease in research growth

This analysis does not look at areas of interest to investors, but seeks to pull out insights that are relevant to clients and prospects as well as communications and IT vendor analyst relations (AR) teams.
Press release summary: Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) reported results for first quarter 2008. Contract value, a key leading indicator for Gartner’s [...]

Forrester Q1 FY08 earnings — Roles roles and more roles, Oh, hired more sales people too.

This analysis does not look at areas of interest to investors, but seeks to pull out insights that are relevant to clients and prospects as well as communications and IT vendor analyst relations (AR) teams.
Forrester Research (NASDAQ: FORR) announced its Q1 FY08, ended March 31, 2008, financial results. Revenues were up 16% to $55m and [...]

Analyst Analyst - a new blog to analyze the quality and accuracy of the industry analysts

Analyst Analyst launched today. It has an interesting premise - have the analyst ecosystem police the analysts.

What’s happening at Ovum? David Dom Duncan discuss

Two Three (I added Duncan) smart Brits, David Rossiter at Analyst Insight, Dominic Pannell at H&K and Duncan Chapple of Lighthouse AR look at recent changes Ovum. Well worth checking out their posts:
Ovum telecoms chief to leave
Shake-up at Ovum
Ovum at the tipping point?

Earnings calls are scheduled - Forrester on April 30th and Gartner on May 8th

Forrester is on April 30th at 11 am ET. Gartner is on May 8th at 10 am ET. Both earnings calls are webcasts that you can find on each firm’s investor relations webpage.
I don’t listen to the Gartner and Forrester earnings calls with the same mindset as a financial analyst. What I listen for are [...]

Does H&K hiring Peggy O’Neill change the agency competitive landscape? Potentially very much.

When H&K’s Josh Reynolds announced at the AR meeting at Gartner US Spring Symposium that he had hired Peggy O’Neill, Oracle’s VP of AR, a lot of us in the industry went “Wow!” Wow because Peggy was leaving one to the top AR jobs to join an agency and wow because H&K had just grabbed [...]

Peggy O’Neill joins Hill & Knowlton

Peggy, until recently the head of Oracle’s AR program, has joined H&K as as SVP, US Director AR Practice. Here is the press release. BTW, Peggy is also a former Gartner analyst as well. This is a real catch for H&K as Peggy has one of the best AR minds in the industry.
Best of luck [...]

Show your favorite analyst some love vote in the IIAR analyst of the year survey

There is still time left to vote in the International Institute of AR’s “Analyst of the Year” survey. Go to Analyst of the year - submit your answers today to find the survey link.

On the Reading List - Groundswell by Forrester’s Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff

I have been reading a reviewer copy of “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies” by Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Rather than waiting until I finished the book and write a review, this post is a suggestion that if you or your company are interested in using social media either [...]

New feature - SageCircle’s Analyst Twitter Directory

Because analyst Twitter handles are not always obvious, SageCircle has created a directory of analyst Twitter addresses. You can find it in the left nav bar under “Pages.”
If you know of other analysts that are Twittering, please send their addresses to carter [at] sagecircle dot com.
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Newbie’s Guide to Twitter

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Reminder - today is Gartner’s Quarterly Analyst Relations

Speakers:

Aaron Yaverski, GVP HTTP Product Management
Allison Fletcher - Vendor Relations Manager

Agenda:

Discuss proposed agenda for upcoming AR forums that will be held during Spring Symposium/ITxpo in Las Vegas, NV (April 6 - 10) and Barcelona, Spain (May 12 - 15)
Q&A
Adjourn 

Gartner Analyst and Investor Day

Take aways for communications and IT vendors:

Gartner has achieved stable double digit growth in research contract value over last four years due to increasing the sales force and expanding the end-user client base. This translates into increased influence on vendor sales.

Gartner is tuning Events to deliver more IT professional attendees. Events will be retired as well as added. More emphasis [...]

New influencer blog to check out: Don Bulmer’s Everyday Influence

 Everyday Influence is the new blog from Don Bulmer, VP of Influencer Relations at SAP. Interesting title, eh? Don is wicked smart and well worth following.
Here is the description “Don Bulmer’s experience, best practices, and perspective on the new world of influencer relations, social media, communications, and leadership.”

Gartner Quarterly AR Call Schedule

For several years now, Gartner Vendor Relations has held quarterly teleconferences for the analyst relations (AR) community. There is a discussion about a topic (e.g., in December it was about the policy change on surveying analysts) and Q&A on any issue. Sometimes the calls are pretty low key and other times it can get quite [...]

Gartner grows 12% in 2007 — SageCircle will be microblogging during earnings announcement

Carter will be on Twitter (”follow” me at http://twitter.com/carterlusher) giving a running commentary. Even if you cannot follow live, you can see the complete commentary by clicking on my profile afterwards. The comments will be focused on the interests of members of the IT analyst ecosystem (e.g., AR managers and enterprise IT clients) not investors.
The earnings call starts at 10 [...]