Gartner

ERP is so over so get over it

February 19, 2009 General

Ben Kepes discussion about ‘fully featured’ and ‘ERP’ is so full of holes it would make a good string vest. I was going to leave a lengthy comment but realized that if I’m going into attack mode, it ought to be here rather than on another person’s website. Anyhoo. I should preface by saying I [...]

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What do you make of all this cloud talk?

February 6, 2009 General

Dave Turner, head of marketing at CODA [disclosure: CODA is a sponsor and client] turns up the heat on uber analyst group Gartner, characterizing their assessment of growth in the cloud computing market as ‘wide of the mark.‘ That’s a strong statement which Dave justifies by saying that: In the report Gartner appears to make [...]

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Analyzing the analysts

November 7, 2008 General

There was a time  in the mid-1990′s when getting time with a senior Gartner analyst was like trying to meet with royalty. They were independent, they were good, they knew it and much in demand. Today, the analyst community is fat, happy and largely dumb. Last week, Gartner released its financial results. Among other tidbits, [...]

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Proctologist or dental surgeon?

July 30, 2008 General

An interesting Twitter conversation broke out earlier today when the effervescent open source hand waver aka James Governor drew a comparison between his firm Redmonk and Gartner. I argued the comparison is suprious because they do different things – better to think about proctologists and dental surgeons. He replied with chiropracter and hospital GP. I [...]

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