Datamonitor Tech moves in with Ovum
Datamonitor’s technology analysts in London have moved into spare space at Cardinal Tower, which also houses Ovum. While this will cut traveling times for vendors on tour, it’s still business as usual...
View ArticleInforma purchase values Datamonitor as worth more than Forrester
Informa has announced that it will purchase Datamonitor for £502 million: around $1 billion. It is an astonishing price, reflecting more than a ten percent premium over the firm’s market...
View ArticleShould Datamonitor sell Ovum? Join our ‘Advisor Spotlight’ call to find out
Would Yankee Group be a better owner of Ovum than Datamonitor? That’s one of the questions kicked around in last week’s Advisor Spotlight, our monthly discussion about leading analyst firms. It’s an...
View ArticleOvum at the tipping point?
Is Ovum, one of the most successful European-headquartered analyst firms, at a tipping point? Its new owners, Datamonitor, have a few months in which to decide whether to renew Ovum’s reputation for...
View ArticleDatamonitor’s playbook offers Ovum a different future
Datamonitor CEO Mark Meek met us last week to explain to us his plans for Ovum. A touchstone in the conversation was the highly effective turn-around of Datamonitor’s once-struggling health-care...
View ArticleOn sale – Informa T&M, Datamonitor, Ovum and Butler
Informa is being bought, but by whom? United Business Media, the UK publishing giant, started the bidding and then dropped out. Now private equity groups are in play, such as Providence are bidding....
View ArticleBig stakes in Informa sale: Aleksandra Bosnjak on webinar panel
Duncan Chapple and Aleksandra Bosnjak have been billed as speakers for for our Informa webinar on the possible sale of the firm. Since both were formerly analysts at Ovum, part of the Informa group,...
View ArticleThe value and post-acquisition performance of Informa
Guest post by Aleksandra Bosnjak, Lead TMT Analyst at StrategyEye, in advance of our recent webinar. Informa, the UK-based B2B publishing and conference giant which just broke off its talks with UBM...
View ArticleHolway: Providence Equity bids world record amount for Informa
A quick ‘heads up’ from Richard:Informa gets bid from private equity consortium led by Providence Equity. Depending on whose maths you trust, the bid is more or less $6 billion: less according to The...
View ArticleInforma’s potential buyers walk away from the deal
Informa, which owns Datamonitor, Ovum and Butler, stays on the shelf after Providence Equity Partners walked away from its planned purchase of the group. It would have been one of the largest private...
View ArticleDatamonitor, Ovum & Butler cohabitation makes AR easier
Last week’s meeting of the IIAR invited a delegation from Datamonitor, including John Leigh, who heads the tech research at Datamonitor and its Ovum and Butler brands, and David Mitchell (who has a...
View ArticleOxford insight on how social media anticipates analyst trends
Impact of social media is overestimated in the short-term and overestimated in the long-term: what was the message from the Oxford Social Media Conference last week. I was lucky to be invited to the...
View ArticleExpanding Ovum was the smartest industry move of the year
Datamonitor’s decision to integrate Butler, Ovum and the Datamonitor Technology business is looking like the major strategic move by one of the analyst firms this year. The integration has not been...
View ArticleGartner’s purchase of Burton is a ‘double-whammy’, so the fight’s for second...
Gartner’s purchase of Burton Group continues the M&A process flowing through the analyst industry under the impact of the recession. The initial analysis that I found most interesting was by Phil...
View ArticleThe clash of cultures between Ovum, Informa and Datamonitor
Mergers are tricky things, and the mergers of businesses based around knowledge workers are especially tricky. It’s not hard to see why. Ovum, Informa and Datamonitor each developed different cultures,...
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