After our post on unpredictions, we have seen this post from Alan Pelz-Sharpe discussing the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant on Enterprise Content Management:
Trends: Of magic quadrants and buyers' choices [CMS Watch]
George has also posted a critique here:
9 Comments on Gartner's ECM Magic Quadrant [the ECM blog]
Bottom lines:
Despite the MQ reform, transparency around the inclusion criteria and weighting applied to scores remains questionable Vendors need that using the MQ as a marketing tool may expose them in areas they're not in the leading MQ and develop rebuttals Users need to read the MQ as a starting point in a product evaluation, not something that makes or breaks a deal -unless they have a fine understanding of the underlying methodology
Read also other posts on the infamous Borg Tragic Quadrant:
Bitter Andy defends his Tragic Quadrant (at least someone has balls) Vinnie on the Gartner Offshore Application Services Magic Quadrant Gartner: now, pay to quote! Tragic Quadrant series: episode I The Gartner Magic Quadrant: shaken, not stirred Gartner's Magic Quadrants: a wind of change? Governor, Magic Quadrants and collaborative filtering The Gartner Magic Quadrant
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1 comment:
Ooops! I think we meant APS, not APZ.
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