Well, this is possibly the only one thing they have down, IMO.
It’s a strategy. No products. No quadrants. Just a more reasonable way of looking at business IT and enterprise development.
It happens to mesh well with my experiences and it’s sometimes nice to be able to whack “Gartner” about in certain settings - especially when someone’s trying to get traction for a magic quadrant product! :)
And to be fair - this is a thread about SAP and ERP…
It's a standard publication read by upper management at tons of large companies. Being in a quadrant is basically marketing to exactly the people you want to reach.
Because there are many large companies who's entire purchasing procedure seems to be to select whoever's furthest in the top right of Gartner's quadrants
What's the problem with Gartner? According to them we would be out of work and biz peps high on milky-way charts can accomplish anything with mouse clicks.
It’s a strategy. No products. No quadrants. Just a more reasonable way of looking at business IT and enterprise development.
It happens to mesh well with my experiences and it’s sometimes nice to be able to whack “Gartner” about in certain settings - especially when someone’s trying to get traction for a magic quadrant product! :)
And to be fair - this is a thread about SAP and ERP…