Douche Baggery

Forrester to government research plans: You're wasting your money

To anyone who has spent any time in the startup tech market, Forrester is "the shit." A good review from them means that your name will be in the all of the industry rags and the you'll be considered "a real company" something that is very important to fledgling startup when looking for credibility and funding

I have worked with Forrester, Gartner and several other industry analysts and my analysis is that they are all pretty much full of shit. Dealing with them I've dealt with, at best, people with sub-par technical skills who haven't really even been through an in house test product implementation (let alone a real world setup of the products they promote) Secondly it seems that the companies that subscribe to their over priced information and pay them a lot to them get better reviews. Thirdly their "analysis" is usually less informative than typing the product name into the Google search box and hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Fourthly they like to throw in random (and I'm betting [.7 to .8]) that theses stats are made up.
Also I've been on conference calls with their vertical experts for products my clients have been evaluating and the time spent with them would have been more productive reading glossy brochures from the company in question (and I'm sure is pretty much the source for their "informative insights") Lastly they list a bunch of corporations that the governments should run like, I'd be willing to bet that this research was somehow funded by these companies.

Listening to these analysts for useful information, let alone public policy direction, is tantamount to taking financial investment advice from the guy walking out of bankruptcy court or looking to a homeless guy for interior design tips.