Comment Re:Gartner cynic here - enlighten me (Score 1) 98
On the other hand, maybe your company wants to deploy proximity ID badges in 14 offices in 10 countries, and you want to know who makes systems that are compatible/compliant/etc across all of them. Unless you make/sell badge readers as your primary business, you probably don't know much about them. If you were securing one office with one door, maybe you wouldn't care and would just pick a random vendor with a cheap price. However, even a high-level overview of the field could save you a lot of money, and trying to figure out what info online is good/bad would probably be tough.
This is exactly the value add of Gartner. Besides their vendor ratings, hype cycles, magic quadrants, they provide a large knowledge base of best practices, studies. methodologies et cetera. Sure, Google and friends can provide tons of links, but using Gartner for specific types of queries can be more efficient.
