Comments on: With friends like Forrester and Gartner, IBM and SAP don’t need enemies… http://roman.stanek.org/2010/02/15/with-friends-like-forrester-and-gartner-ibm-and-sap-dont-need-enemies/ BI, SaaS, travel and everything else... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: PEO http://roman.stanek.org/2010/02/15/with-friends-like-forrester-and-gartner-ibm-and-sap-dont-need-enemies/#comment-1303 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:31:03 +0000 http://roman.stanek.org/?p=456#comment-1303 Tina Babbi from Trinet has more than impressed me with her webinars. Regardless, great article.

]]> By: Roman Stanek http://roman.stanek.org/2010/02/15/with-friends-like-forrester-and-gartner-ibm-and-sap-dont-need-enemies/#comment-745 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:14:10 +0000 http://roman.stanek.org/?p=456#comment-745 The key is to find a small segment of market that is neglected by the incumbents for several potential reasons: it is either too small or it doesn’t support their margins. These markets exist even inside enterprises: For example VMware used the dev/test market to get into enterprises…

]]> By: Skip Snow http://roman.stanek.org/2010/02/15/with-friends-like-forrester-and-gartner-ibm-and-sap-dont-need-enemies/#comment-744 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:45:53 +0000 http://roman.stanek.org/?p=456#comment-744 Roman:

Great post. I understand your opinion of how the analysts are there to protect the status quo, allowing innovation to sneak into the market place. This does make a certain amount of sense.

The notion that an innovation bubbles up from the low end is interesting. This means that the radical innovations must be an advantage to the low end, yes?

With that in mind, how do innovations which in there essence make complex environments simple find the initial early adapters to prove the win? For the most part low end environments are simple compared to the enterprise which consists of complexity.

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