The AR blogging community has been busy this week:
- Analyst Equity: Duncan comments back on his ex. Colleagues in Ovum revenue to top 35 million again, apparently doing well and hiring within Yankee ranks: Roger Entner, Chris Lewis and XJ Wang are the latest transfers. Our opinion is that Ovum prefers growing organically (question to Duncan: does low power distance ratio goes well with risk adverse?) and could do more to exploit the gap left by META Group, especially in the consulting segment. But yes, they’re nice lads…
- Talking about Yankee, Tekrati reports it has been purchased Alta Communications -a private equity firm- from Decision Matrix LLC (who in turn acquired it from The Monitor Clipper Group?). The story on InformationWeek is (marginally) more informative than the press release posted as such on Tekrati. Our prediction for more consolidation in 2005 is confirmed.
- David Rossiter reports another defection from Yankee in the person of Euan Davis but to Forrester services team this time: [Analyst Insight:] Arrival at Forrester.
- Joe Guralnick is asking what the Borg CEO is up to: read [Gartner Watch:] Does Gene Hall has a future
6 comments:
Decision Matrix Group is a subsidary of Monitor Clipper Partners, which is a subsidary of the Monitor Group.
Clear? ;->
Thanks for this precision, it's somewhat nebulous indeed...
SVG, interesting to see that Outsell made the same mistake -if mistake it is:
"Seller Decision Matrix Group was another private equity company that had Yankee long enough to get a taste of the research and advisory space and learn how difficult it can be to find roll-ups and build scale in a market that’s pretty mature. Decision Matrix acquired the firm from Monitor Clipper Partners and other investors, which in turn acquired it from Reuters in May 2004."
From http://now.outsellinc.com/now/2005/11/yankee_group_fi.html
... but interestingly, Outsell has disabled comments on their blogs. Does that still make it a blog?
Maybe James Governor would have an idea on this?
Yep it's true, and Outsell is wrong.
From the Monitor Clipper Partners website:
"In May 2004, MCP Fund II formed Decision Matrix Group to acquire The Yankee Group, the world’s largest research firm focused exclusively on the communications and networking industries."
http://www.monitorclipper.com/pages/portfolio/dmg.html
So there is the link between DMG and MCP. Now the link between MCP and Monitor.
"Monitor Clipper Partners is a private equity investment firm formed in 1998 by The Monitor Group, a leading group of advisory businesses that has at its core one of the world’s largest strategy consulting firms, and The Clipper Group, an experienced private equity investment firm."
http://www.monitorclipper.com/pages/overview.html
Frankly, many analysts -- in this context Outsell is just another analyst -- don't do the hard work of really digging out the facts. Gartner drives me crazy because its analysts often provide very shallow analysis based on very little real research, just opinions and suppositions.
Thanks for the update SVG.
Here are the links in "clear":
http://www.monitorclipper.com/pages/portfolio/dmg.html
http://www.monitorclipper.com/pages/overview.html
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