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- Search for top Gartner alternative comes up empty handed
- Tekrati is addressing the debate over which industry analyst firm is the best alternative to Gartner, now that Gartner’s acquisition of Meta Group is history. Tekrati hand-picked what they consider are seven top choices in North America--Forrester Research, IDC and AMR Research, Burton Group, Info-Tech Research Group, The 451...
- Tags: META Group Inc., clientS, Burton Group
- Blog posts 2005-08-15
- Checking in on the sad state of industry analyst bloggers
- Technology blogs are a dime a dozen these days, but surprisingly, industry analysts have been slow to adopt them. You could probably count on one hand the few analyst bloggers high on the blogosphere totem pole. So there is a bit ofirony here. You'd expect these technology"thought-leaders" to embrace new...
- Tags: Tekrati
- Blog posts 2005-02-23
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- IT Analysts in Price War?
- The Burton Group, an IT analyst firm, is trying to steal court customers away from competing firms, such as Gartner Group and Forrester Research, with a low-price offer. From the Burton "Drop a Seat" website:For a limited time, Burton Group is offering new, first-time clients unlimited, enterprise-wide access to one...
- Tags: Burton Group, Information Technology, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Looking to grow career? Stay away from small enterprises, says research firm
- The belief that you can flex your power and have more impact in smaller organizations doesn't ring true for IT professionals, according to a recent study. Info-Tech Research Group's Indaba Division reports that in smaller enterprises, decisions on IT department acquisitions tend to rest in the hands of senior, non-IT...
- Tags: Info-Tech Research Group
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Are industry analysts losing ground in the new media world?
- Are industry analysts losing their influence to journalists and industry bloggers? This was one question we discussed Wednesday morning as I took part in a PRSA Public Relations Society of America teleconference organized by Barbara French of Tekrati, which tracks industry analyst firms. On the panel with me was David...
- Tags: blog
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- Alive and Kicking
- Even since the pre-Y2K ERP build-up, conventional wisdom has held that big software systems are on the way out. Open source solutions and software as a service SaaS providers, among other reasons, have put pressure on ERP vendors to come up with new ideas. In SAPs case, for example,...
- Tags: IT issues
- Blog posts 2006-04-14
- IT pay increases connected to outsourcing backlash, says study
- A research news item on Tekrati from Foote Partners jumps to the conclusion that recent survey results that show strong pay growth for applications development, database, enterprise software, networking, and systems administration skills, means that offshore outsourcing is no longer pushing down wages for U.S. IT professionals as it once...
- Tags: outsourcing, information technology
- Blog posts 2005-07-20
- Federal Enterprise Architecture: agencies and vendors brace for pain
- IT vendors shooting for a slice of the $70 billion federal IT budget this year will have to revise their sales strategy as early as July 1st, according to a market alert published by INPUT. Federal Enterprise Architecture FEA initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government information systems...
- Tags: Federal Enterprise Architecture
- Blog posts 2005-06-17
- IT Help Desks in the dog house
- Business users are dissatisfied with help desk support; so much in fact that they rank it last when asked about the importance of these technologies to their jobs, reports Tekrati. Additionally, less than half of the respondents report satisfaction with IT’s communication efforts about changes in the organization and new...
- Tags: IT Organizations
- Blog posts 2005-05-18
- Federal Enterprise Architecture: agencies and vendors brace for pain
- IT vendors shooting for a slice of the $70 billion federal IT budget this year will have to revise their sales strategy as early as July 1st, according to a market alert published by INPUT. Federal Enterprise Architecture FEA initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government information...
- Tags: agency, SOA
- Blog posts 2005-05-13
- SOA users endangered by vendor marketing hype
- "With many of the IT vendors marketing SOA offerings focusing primarily on the software development issues, SOA might as well stand for Something Altogether Ordinary" Independent IT industry analyst firm Macehiter Ward-Dutton formed by former Ovum analysts takes vendors' marketing of SOA offerings to task saying that it’s too short-sighted...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-05-05
- 12.3 mln US households will listen to podcasts by 2010
- According to Forrester Research and reported by Tekrati, 20.1 mln US households will listen to satellite radio and 12.3 mln US households will use their MP3 players to listen to audio podcasts by 2010. Satellite radio reached 4.5 mln subscribers by the end of 2004, up more than 150% from...
- Tags: Satellite radio, Podcasts, Digital music, Network technology, Digital media, podcast
- Blog posts 2005-04-28
- 12.3 mln US households will listen to podcasts by 2010
- According to Forrester Research and reported by Tekrati, 20.1 mln US households will listen to satellite radio and 12.3 mln US households will use their MP3 players to listen to audio podcasts by 2010. Satellite radio reached 4.5 mln subscribers by the end of 2004, up more than 150% from...
- Tags: Satellite radio, Podcasts, Digital music, Network technology, Digital media, podcast
- Blog posts 2005-04-28
- Most SMBs have no plans to adopt software-as-service solutions, report says
- "Software-as-services vendors have run into many of the same obstacles that other technology vendors have faced in selling to the sprawling and highly fragmented SMB market" Software-as-a-service vendors like NetSuite, OpenAir, and Salesforce.com are finding that small and medium-sized businesses are not easily sold on the idea. As reported...
- Tags: small and medium business
- Blog posts 2005-04-20
- Customer service outsourcing to reach $12.2 bln by 2007
- The worldwide market for customer service outsourcing is set to grow from $8.4 bln in 2004 to $12.2 bln in 2007, but the offshore component will remain small, according to Gartner, as reported by Tekrati.
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), customer service
- Blog posts 2005-03-25
- Customer service outsourcing to reach $12.2 bln by 2007
- The worldwide market for customer service outsourcing is set to grow from $8.4 bln in 2004 to $12.2 bln in 2007, but the offshore component will remain small, according to Gartner, as reported by Tekrati.
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), customer service
- Blog posts 2005-03-25
- Reports clash over outsourcing mega deal trends
- Flying in the face of what AMR Research recently said about the decline of outsourcing mega deals, Tekrati reports that just the opposite is true. According to TPI a company specializing in sourcing advice outsourcing mega deals are not on the decline. Tekrati had this to say: "The report presents...
- Tags: mega deal
- Blog posts 2005-03-09
- 42.2 mln digital TV users, 11.3 mln IPTV users in Europe by 2010
- According to Strategy Analytics, 25.7% of Europe's TV households acquired digital television by the end of 2004, up from 21.1% during 2003. Digital Terrestrial television DTTV will continue to grow rapidly as more countries establish services, reaching 42.2 mln households by 2010. By that time, IPTV will have become an...
- Tags: TV, digitaL, digital television, Strategy Analytics
- Blog posts 2005-03-03
- 2.8 mln plasma TVs sold worldwide in 2004, 1.1 mln of them in Q4 2004
- DisplaySearch reported plasma TV shipments soaring in Q4 2004, rising 67% QTQ and 173% YTY to a record 1.1 mln TVs. The analysts attribute the remarkable growth to strong holiday demand, supported by lower prices and rising interest in flat panel TVs and HDTVs. For the 2004 year, plasma TV...
- Tags: plasma TV, TV
- Blog posts 2005-02-26
- CIO "DNA" evolving, says Meta Group
- Meta Group recently published results from a study called "Top Global CIO Issues for 2005" based on a global survey of 1000 CIOs. Tekrati reports on the findings, addingcommentary from Metas senior vice president of Executive Directions, Jonathan Poe. He told Tekrati "The DNA of the CIO is more multidimensional...
- Tags: ITO
- Blog posts 2005-02-25
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