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I don’t necessarily expect everyone to be excited at the news that the 2013 Application Performance Monitoring Magic Quadrant assessment is under way. It’s a specialist field, and only a few dozen companies will be directly involved. But this year, [...]
One of the innocent pleasures of life in the analyst relations business is the opportunities it sometimes offers to watch respected specialists crossing swords in public. The allegations, the counterblasts, the challenges, the clicking of heels and the slapping down [...]
Once upon a time, I was referred to as “a god”. It was a long time ago, and I like to think I’ve matured handsomely since then. But the point about the remark, in a reputable Connecticut newspaper, was that [...]
“Sorry, we can’t install your software until next year as all our support staff have met their installation scorecard quotas and are now busy now doing other things. Thank you for your call. Goodbye.” Not much of a come-on, is [...]
Watching the parade of Olympic and Paralympic athletes through central London today, I was reminded, all over again, what a fantastic success the summer’s events had been. For instance, did you see the rowing? That fantastic Men’s Eights final, with [...]
Like the team at The Skills Connection, the author of Up and to the Right, Richard Stiennon, is a Gartner refugee. He worked for Gartner as an analyst, tracking security technologies, and his day job now is as an independent [...]
It’s odd how good ideas take you by surprise. I was talking to Ian, our head of editorial, this week about a new executive blog we’re launching for a client, and I asked him how he thought we should handle [...]
Looking out of my office window in the past month, I’ve been greeted most days by pretty well incessant rain. Here in Britain, it seems like it’s been raining for weeks. In some places, houses are flooded and gardens are [...]
You’re a realist, right? You know there are things you can do, investments you can make, that will help to make your company and your products more visible to Gartner and the other research and advisory organizations. You know the [...]
Was there ever a day when the thought crossed your mind that your company could do without Gartner, IDC, Forrester, Ovum, and all the rest of them? Was there ever a moment when you thought “We don’t need them”? You [...]