4 January 2013 - US technology-industry analyst The 451 Group LLC said it had taken over domestic IT market research and advisory firm
Yankee Group Research Inc from private equity firm Alta Communications.
Event partners CEA, MediaLink and
Yankee Group are also members of the CleanSlate 2011 Advisory Board along with NPD Group and Ground Truth.
Some other countries including Abu Dhabi and Oman are coming on strong in the outsourcing space but others such as Jordan and Dubai face longer odds in competing for a piece of the outsourcing pie," Zeus Kerravala, Enterprise Research Senior Vice-President,
Yankee Group, said.
The Gulf region may be attracting more and more outsourcing services to the region, but they should differentiate their offers and prove their strengths to taste success in the surging global outsourcing market and compete with the likes of India and China, according to a
Yankee Group report, a report said.
A recent
Yankee Group study suggests this is the wrong approach and that a more "Zen-like" process of allowing all sorts of consumer technology into the LAN is both easier for the IT department to manage and more productive to the company, as well.
Other publishing portfolio companies of Alta Communications include Babcox Publications (Akron, OH), CDC Publishing (Vero Beach, FL), Davler Media Group (New York), MBI Publishing (Osceola, WI), New Times Media (Phoenix, AZ),
Yankee Group (Boston, MA) and 1105 Media (Chatsworth, CA).
The
Yankee Group reckons that one reason the platform is so popular with developers is because producing simple games in Flash takes just three or four months--clearly an attractive proposition for smaller content companies.
Leading analyst firm
Yankee Group predicts that the market for appliances delivering comprehensive application assurance will reach $230 million by 2009 and has identified NetContinuum as a leader in that market in the December 2005 report titled, Application Assurance Platforms Arise from Web App Firewall Market's Ashes.
Adi Kishore, a senior analyst in media and entertainment strategies at the
Yankee Group Research Inc.
SecureWorks is the largest provider of managed IT security services to the financial industry and was recently named by the IT analyst firm
Yankee Group as a "market leader" among Pure Managed Security Service Providers (PMSSPs).