Comments on: Analyst reports: How to read them

By: ARonaut

ARonaut — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:22:23 +0000

Hi, Thanks for the link. Indeed, many have misconception about research, especially about numbers. We've tried to document this at lenght on ARmadgeddon (links below). On the other hand, the huge variability in research quality hides a constant improvement: analysts are getting better at cutting the hype and providing meaningful actionable recommendations for users. The downside is that research notes have become a bit less entertaintaining. AR 101 series: the research process AR Classics Series: Don't Let Yourself be Misled by Analyst Bias 79.7% of all Gartner RAS statistics are made up More on Analysts’ Data Sample Size

By: Vantelo

Vantelo — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:12:42 +0000

I’ve got one other suggestion for you. Share your comments about the analyst reports so that you can a least get a CIO’s perspective of their analysis.

I’m not a CIO, but I am a big consumer of IT analyst reports in my role as product marketer / product manager for IT vendors.

I started a blog with links to the latest IT analyst reports that are available for download for free (because it’s not always just a matter of time, a lot of us don’t have the budget to buy all the reports we need either) – these are typically links to the vendors that have purchased licenses to distribute the reports.

Please take a look – there’s something for everyone!

vantelo.com

By: Prashanth Rai

Prashanth Rai — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:20:07 +0000

I believe that blogs are going to in the near future emerge as you most preferred source of information, it’s not going to happen overnight but over a period of time I am sure.

CIO-Councils are good, but may be as part of the site, you could set up a blog network / social bookmarking which would help them exchange information.

If interested along these lines, just send me a note maybe we can toss some ideas around on other possible options.

Also if possible it would be great if we set up sometime to have a call/email interview with you which i could host on my blog

Prashanth

By: Felix Enescu

Felix Enescu — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:43:05 +0000

Right!

Unfortunately there are very few CIO blogs… Luckily there are some enterprise architects blogs (as I saw from your blogroll)

By: James

James — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:56:39 +0000

CIOs should also be encouraged to read the blogs of others that at least work within an enterprise context. This is a lot different than reading the blogs of vendors…