Sitting on clouds site software#
The following are the list of cloud computing and enterprise software vendor sites that offer free downloads of cloud computing and enterprise software research: Gartner has been very active this year in refining the Magic Quadrant methodology for example. This is especially the case with the Gartner Magic Quadrant and MarketScopes. Pay attention to the methodologies used in each report and realize they change over time.One for example, the Gartner Copyright and Quote Policy is shown here. I advise my students to seek out the copyright and quote policies of the research firm of interest if they plan on re-using the graphics in any published materials or in their blog posts.
Enterprise software vendors often pay tens of thousands of dollars at a minimum for reprint rights and the right to provide them on their websites. The reports are intellectual property of the firms publishing them.Ethical industry analysts will often insist that a disclaimer be included in the white paper and on the website stating that they and their firms were hired to write the paper or do the research and publish the report. Writing white papers and doing research for an enterprise software vendor client is a very lucrative business for many industry analyst firms. Many of the cloud computing and enterprise software companies pay to have white papers written and research done.