{"id":1030,"date":"2015-06-11T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/in-the-bullseye-of-the-iiar-tragic-quadrant_061115\/"},"modified":"2015-06-11T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T20:47:00","slug":"in-the-bullseye-of-the-iiar-tragic-quadrant_061115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/in-the-bullseye-of-the-iiar-tragic-quadrant_061115\/","title":{"rendered":"HfS hits bullseye of the IIAR Tragic Quadrant for IT analyst firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been doing this research things for a while now. The blog started in 2007 and HfS Research has been around since 2010. It&#8217;s really a blink of an eye when you think about it&#8211;especially compared with the established firms that we knock heads with every day:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/analystrelations.org\/2015\/06\/08\/the-iiar-tragic-quadrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18063 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IIAR_Tragic_Quadrant.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what keeps us going, apart from the great (and sometimes insane) clients we work with, is the knowledge\u00a0that we&#8217;re doing the right thing &#8211; or at least we convince ourselves we are. But, occasionally, there is independent confirmation that tells it like it is, for example this new analysis from the <a href=\"http:\/\/analystrelations.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Institute of Analyst Relations<\/a>, which surveyed analyst relations professionals from 60 organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Again, here we are in the mix with the Gartners, Forresters and IDCs of the world in\u00a0The IIAR&#8217;s now infamous \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/analystrelations.org\/2015\/06\/08\/the-iiar-tragic-quadrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tragic Quadrant<\/a>,\u201d which IIAR just released on the impact and relevance of IT analyst firms. As you can see, we&#8217;re square in the bullseye on the Impact and Relevance quadrant, along with Interaction (which is depicted by the size of the bubble). \u00a0 What&#8217;s really encouraging for HfS is our reach <em>beyond<\/em> outsourcing and services into mainstream coverage of technology &#8211; we really seem to have left some of the niche analyst firms in the outsourcing space behind.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not much\u00a0for living in bubbles, but it&#8217;s not bad for your favorite insurgent firm.\u00a0And we assure you,\u00a0we won&#8217;t let it go to our heads. \u00a0Honest we won&#8217;t =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been doing this research things for a while now. 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