Euan Semple rightly hails Jeneane Sessum‘s idea as "cracking". The idea? Well, frustrated by an inability to access tech analyst data she’s calling for a "Wikipedia of research":
The model now with the big analyst firms holding the high-priced keys
to the kingdom of research needs an overhaul. At the same time,
enterprises wouldn’t have to pay tens of thousands of dollars have a
report done on their offering/product.
It’s the sort of concept that sends a shiver up your spine. First citizen journalists, now citizen analysts?
If one were to create such a thing it would be incredibly useful, especially in an age where there are so many smaller and single-cell corporate organisms out there in the business eco-system. The current analyst model doesn’t work for them because they don’t have the scale to be able to afford access to the data.
So what will happen. Will the likes of Ovum, Gartner and Forrester respond with new models of sharing information, take part in this project with their public information, or will an alternative be established, an alternative that has the potential to disintermediate them to a certain extent?
What do analysts think about this, I wonder? I’m not sure, but I’ll ask a man who does…
: : Reading a couple of comments that are on Jeneane’s post already there are some people willing to muck in on such a project. Someone else points out there is a great deal of free data made available already by tech analyst houses.
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