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Today’s webinar: How Pierre Audoin Consultants hit the mainstream

Editorial — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:53:32 +0000

On December 17 we’re running a webinar to take a closer look at Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). Close watchers of the services industry will need no introduction to PAC, one of Europe’s oldest industry analyst firms. The sort of projects it wins are instructive: it has been appointed by the EC to lead a consortium [...]

Join us for holiday drinks on the 21st

Editorial — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:35:51 +0000

We’re out for drinks on Monday the 21st with some of the other companies based at the Technopark. Come along and join us! We’ll be at Imbibe from 6pm. It’s at 173 Blackfriars Road, just south of Southwalk tube station near Surrey Row. There’s a map here.

Telefonica makes it to the top 25 in the Lighthouse Telecoms Index

Waqas Ahmed — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:23:23 +0000

Telefonica which opened offices in 15 new European countries is the only new entrant to the top 25 in October. Focus on the firm’s announcement to move ahead with its LTE trials have also helped it to move up 2 positions to the 24th spot. Analyst focus on Austrian Telecom firms has helped Telekom Austria and [...]

SanDisk moves up in the Lighthouse Systems Index

Waqas Ahmed — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:39:28 +0000

The top gainer in the October edition of the Lighthouse Systems Index is SanDisk. SanDisk has announced new flash memory cards targeting gamers and has moved up 7 spots. Ricoh which has announced a new manufacturing plant in Thailand also moved up 3 spots. NetApp also moved up 3 positions to the 17th spot. Focus [...]

Novell moves up in the Lighthouse Software Index

Waqas Ahmed — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:32:29 +0000

Novell which moved up 2 positions is the most high profile gainer. Its SecureLogin solution has been ranked as one of the best in the industry and the resulting focus has helped it to move up to 6th spot in October. Hyperion gained 6 positions as analysts focus on the result of its acquisition by Oracle. [...]

Gartner buys AMR: free Dec 14 webinar for enterprise ERP and Supply Chain specialists

Editorial — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:35:08 +0000

The hot news this week has been the decision of AMR Research to allow itself to be bought by Gartner. If you’re an AMR client you will already be aware of this, and be thinking about your action plan. If you’re a Gartner client in the ERP and Supply Chain space, there will be direct [...]

Gartner & AMR, but in the end its still organic growth vs. the Analyst Cycle

Editorial — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:12:10 +0000

Praise goes to the IIAR for breaking the news (to me, at least) of Gartner’s purchase of AMR Research. The AR institute posted the news an hour before Gartner’s press release on BusinessWire started to pop up in the press. AMR’s Bruce Richardson has also outlined the good news about the deal [And Tony Law’s [...]

Orange Business Services jumps up in the Lighthouse Services Index

Waqas Ahmed — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:46:13 +0000

Orange Business Services is the most high profile gainer in the October edition of the Lighthouse Services Index. The firm gained 7 positions and made it to the top 25 list as analysts recognized its Global and Unified Communications Strength. KPMG has also moved up 4 positions in October and made it to the top [...]

Managing the Insight Services Portfolio, From the Panic Cycle to effective delivery

Editorial — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:35:08 +0000

IT budgets are always under constraint, but today’s CIOs are under intense pressure to deliver more for less. At the same time technology development is offering new options, from social computing to sourcing. IT must assess these effectively and invest for business benefit.

Peggy O’Neill on Analyst Relations Certification

Duncan Chapple — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:55:02 +0000

Last week Peggy O’Neill spoke on a Lighthouse webinar to outline the IIAR’s new Analyst Relations Certification (ARC) prorgramme. As the notes below indicate, the ARC test is a serious contribution to improving the professional standing of analyst relations professionals. Test has 15 sections. Reviewed by analyst firms, AR consultancies and AR people. [...]

A counsel comments on ZL Technologies’ court case

Editorial — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:15:54 +0000

I was working from Gartner’s press room on the day that the story hit that ZL Technologiesis suing the firm for unfavourable coverage. Andrew Spender, VP Corporate Communications at Gartner and Brompton rider, gave me this statement on behalf of the firm. We are aware of the complaint filed in California by ZL Technologies regarding [...]

A tale of two Gartners

Editorial — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:09:57 +0000

It was the best of Gartner; it was the worst of Gartner. It was the AR Forum of wisdom; it was the AR Forum of foolishness. Analyst Relations managers crowded into the Boardwalk on October 20 for Gartner’s annual session for the AR community. It’s a valuable session, and much of the slideware will be [...]

Gartner’s Symposium: what a difference a year makes!

Duncan Chapple — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:00:35 +0000

The annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo has a rather different air about it this year: numbers are down (I hear there are around 5,000 people although it always feels smaller to me than the stated numbers), heads are down and the dress code’s had a real turn towards the formal (It’s first year when I feel I’m [...]

Siemens Communications jumps up in the Lighthouse Telecoms Index

Waqas Ahmed — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:07:38 +0000

Siemens Communications is the top gainer in the September edition of the Lighthouse Telecoms Index. The firm, which has been rated a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for Corporate Telephony and Unified Communications, shot up 15 positions to the 28th spot. Another upward move can help it get a spot in our top 25 list. [...]

Fujitsu moves to the 3rd spot in the Lighthouse Systems Index

Waqas Ahmed — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:12:24 +0000

Fujitsu is the most high profile gainer in September’s edition of the Lighthouse Systems Index. The firm has gained coverage by offering innovative notebook security solution and has also been the focus of analysts for its performance in the High-End Enterprise Disk Arrays market. The resulting improvement in its score has helped Fujitsu to move [...]

Informatica shoots up in the Lighthouse Software Index

Waqas Ahmed — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:11:45 +0000

The top performer in September is Informatica which shot up 11 positions to the 15th spot. The firm has teamed up with HP to offer new portfolio of integrated business intelligence solutions and also made it to the top 25 firms listed in the September edition of the Lighthouse Software Index. Other new entrants to the [...]

Friday: hear Erica Grigg present social media successes

Editorial — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:14:48 +0000

Lighthouse is hosting a great London PR and Branding discussion this Friday in our headquarters. Erica Grigg is looking forward to presenting successful social media case studies, which are likely to inspire potential new ways to enable your business or organization to use social media more proactively to engage with stakeholders, consumers and brand ambassadors. At [...]