How to Understand Gartner’s Similarity to the Devil Wears Prada

Executive Summary Gartner operates more like a fashion magazine than a true IT analytics firm. The similarity between Gartner and the fictitious Runway Magazine. Introduction Gartner presents itself as an IT analyst. However, much of what Gartner does is build up bubbles used to extract money from software vendors (who want various technology trends hyped)…

How Gartner Distributes Press Releases On SAP HANA

Executive Summary Gartner’s article on HANA looks like an SAP press release. Why is the description of HANA offered by the article (and mostly taken directly from SAP product management) ridiculous? Why SAP should instead be focusing on just improving its lagging and infuriating business intelligence and infrastructure products rather than engaging in “visoneering.” Video…