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Comment on AMR retrenches to focus on core, lays off reported 10% by AMR Research executives gives an indication on the strength of their business « SageCircle Blog

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:29:55 +0000

[...] SageCircle interprets it as likely true and not spin to make AMR look better. Certainly AMR had a large layoff in the first week of January. In addition, Tony and Bruce were both ‘gloom gus’es during [...]

Comment on Saving money on contracts with the Forrester / Gartner duopoly is not simple by Gartner Q3 2009 earnings « SageCircle Blog

Gartner Q3 2009 earnings « SageCircle Blog — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:09:30 +0000

[...] even in a recession. This can be attributed to its position as the dominate player (an effective duopoly with Forrester being the junior partner) in the end-user advisory market, its premium brand value, a large and [...]

Comment on Twitter Directory – AR by Jonny Bentwood

Jonny Bentwood — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:38:06 +0000

Great AR twitter directory – have updated this into a twitter list: http://twitter.com/JonnyBentwood/ar-pros

Comment on Bill of Rights for industry analyst vendor prospects by Forrester Research Q3 2009 earnings call « SageCircle Blog

Forrester Research Q3 2009 earnings call « SageCircle Blog — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:34:40 +0000

[...] For AR teams this means that there is unlikely to be disruptive analyst turnover that would negatively impact analyst lists and interactions plans. Unfortunately, there is still the likelihood that sales representatives and analysts will be hitting the vendor community hard for incremental consulting/service units engagements and Roleview seats. Vendors should realize that not buying incremental services will not negatively impact analyst commentary about the company. However, there is the possibility that desperate sales representatives might imply that not increasing spending would result in the vendor dropping in research. If this happens to you, SageCircle recommends that you immediately notify Forrester Chief Research Officer Charles Rutstein. Of course, this possibility would be eliminated if Forrester adopted a Bill of Rights for vendor prospects. [...]

Comment on Why large advisory analyst firms don’t seem to mind losing superstar analysts by Tom Tommins

Tom Tommins — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:23:54 +0000

is it true steve hilton at yankee is leaving? anyone know for sure? where’s he going?

i called, left message. haven’t heard. big time small and med enterprise analyst

Comment on VMware job opening — Group Manager, Industry Analyst Relations by Dean Whitehair

Dean Whitehair — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:41:41 +0000

Absolutely! A sense of humor is a must in this biz…That trait has helped diffuse some very intense confrontations between analysts and executives who were lacking in the humor department!

Comment on Should vendors be investing in analyst conference sponsorships in 2009? by Symantec Loses Vision, McAfee Maintains Focus | Brightfly, Inc.

Symantec Loses Vision, McAfee Maintains Focus | Brightfly, Inc. — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:38:33 +0000

[...] have some good advice about how vendors should deal with this in today's market [link here [...]

Comment on Lack of hands-on testing for products by industry analysts [AR Practitioner Question] by Adriaan Bloem

Adriaan Bloem — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:37:20 +0000

You can’t evaluate products without customer input. You could without hands-on testing.

Having said that, I always try to get unsupervised hands-on opportunity to test, and usually get it. If a company doesn’t allow me to, that’s a bit suspicious. But like Tony said, the value you get out of testing really varies among the technologies and products. I can test a search product on the staple corpuses (Enron documents, a SharePoint VM, etcetera) but that’ll only give me a feel for their efficacy. And I’m under no illusion I could simulate a 1500 editor, high-bandwidth, customized WCM implementation. I talk to customers for that.

I do prefer the mix though. Demos are all smoke and mirrors and an elephant disappearing on stage. They usually have little bearing on customers’ reality.

Comment on Lack of hands-on testing for products by industry analysts [AR Practitioner Question] by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:46:04 +0000

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Comment on Gartner Statement about the ZL Technologies lawsuit by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:20:02 +0000

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