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… most other IT analysts.
There are several examples of this, and the largest analyst firms predicted positive things for the following:

i2 Technologies TradeMatrix (which was not a product)
The development of online marketplaces generally.
That MDM applications were going to be significant factors in software projects.
They predicted that “ERP was dead” (in the late 1990s) and that ERP companies would have to move into new products or be left out in the cold.
SAP Solution Manager (which wasted a tremendous amount of the company’s time and is probably the worst content management system ever broadly sold, although …

… of people in the company and abandoning the more isolated process of software selection currently used. There is an excellent vendor that offers a glimpse into this opportunity. This vendor is called Arena Solutions and is a company I profiled in my book The Bill of Material in Excel, Planning, ERP, and PLM/BMMS Software.
Making the Best Brightwork Research & Analysis
Arena Solutions makes the bill of material management software. The arena is a multi-tenant SaaS/Cloud solution, and they provide anyone with the ability to test drive their software right online if they request a free 30-day …

… updates provide much more detail and analysis than is generally available from the Internet. Market updates are one of my favorite Gartner offerings. As a researcher, Gartner’s press releases—which do not require a Gartner subscription—help quantify changes in the marketplace. For instance, I recently performed research on ERP SaaS providers and found Gartner’s webpage naming NetSuite as the fastest growing global financial software management vendor. (Interestingly, they did not use the term ERP, although that is how NetSuite classifies itself.)
This short article contained some fascinating information.

“NetSuite’s 2012 global growth rate of 49 percent …

… needs. Software selection based on software suites does not emphasize each application but instead emphasizes the suite.
Software Suites as Anticompetitive Mechanisms
As explained in this quote from Christopher Koch of CIO Magazine, software suites are mechanisms that reduce the competition a vendor must face.
“Indeed, integration standards interfere with ERP vendors’ traditional ways of gaining and keeping customers and market share. Before the Web came along, your integration strategy was simple: Buy as many pre integrated applications from a single vendor as possible. That worked for you, and it worked extremely well for the vendor; integrated application suites fetched …

… economy. Other market analysts were more defensive. One question why I was even modeling the SAP economy when I am “not a full time analyst.” Another declined saying it is a “sensitive topic.” Customers should expect analysts to take more of the customer perspective as they cover SAP and the ERP marketplace and to better weaver the research their silos.”

Curious. So when a topic may embarrass SAP, the issue is called “sensitive.” Here, Gartner, Forrester, and IDG show no interest in helping Vinnie figure this out. They declined.
Maintaining Research Integrity
The relationship is clear: the more public the …