Analyst Equity wrote a post last month on picking up the money Gartner and Forrester leave behind. As these two leaders concentrate on the big boys, the other analyst groups are focusing on their weakpoints: the smaller and medium sized businesses and the verticals. In my experience, Gartner, on the content side, is blown away by some of the other analysts, in the Financial Services space; but they still are the winners on the buy side.
Archive for October, 2007
Gartner and Forrester’s leftovers
Monday, October 8th, 2007The Value of Customer Case Studies for Analysts
Sunday, October 7th, 2007One of the most successful analyst relations strategies for a vendor is to use a customer case study or “success story”. When you talk to an analyst you can suggest the possibility but be very sure that your customer has been fully briefed before and will deliver the success story to the analyst. Jonny quotes one of my favorite analysts at Gartner, Massimo Pezzini on this with his post on : Customer Evidence and the Source of Credibility.
