Gartner

What is the point to Gartner? This is a marketing intelligence company for enterprise solutions. Let's say that again a marketing intelligence company that allows organizations to blow their own horn with hyped up reports. At times also an advisory consultancy to clueless and gullible leaders. One needs to wonder how Microsoft keeps reappearing at the head of Gartner reports, time and time again, even with their substandard products. Any organization that has a head of something in technology with a Gartner subscription is likely an indication of their incompetence to sound like they know what they are talking about in front of their technical team and management. Most of what Gartner provides as consultancy and intelligence is in the form of stale information, not state of the art, not properly benchmarked, likely promoted, and will rarely work for AI solutions. One should not play with their bluff and likely should consider the person using them for advice as incompetent for prime time technical know how. It could also mean that the head of something has never released an AI solution in production before so likely high indication of their lack of experience. Furthermore, if they start talking about things that won't work, will work, or aimlessly keep questioning the approach, after having had a meeting with a Gartner consultant, without ever using the tools or methods themselves, that is a sure indication that the person is out of their depth. In such organizations, where resources are lacking, there is a high risk of failure where so called third-party specialists are often given more weight by their management for advice and where such advice given is rarely very useful and while openly rejecting or questioning the practical experiences of their technical teams who are usually in the know of how things work in practice. Just don't use Gartner for advice unless one wants to lose face over time with their technical team especially in relation to open source and AI related projects.

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