Gotta love that latest Radicati white paper...
Category IBM/Lotus
This morning I received an email via Google News Alert highlighting a press release for a new white paper saying how only 20% of IBM customers are planning on implementing Workplace. Of course, I had to check that out. And who should be the author of this industry report designed to give us insight to the IT universe and IBM in particular? Why, Radicati!
So much for insight...
If you head over to their website, you'll find a link to the report. It's available for free download, and it's worth every penny. Note: You'll have to use IE... The download link doesn't work in Firefox for me. Using state of the art statistical analysis, they were able to extrapolate the IT strategy of the entire 60000+ IBM/Lotus customer base from 32 survey responses. Wow... these guys are good! You'll find important things like 8% hadn't even heard of Workplace. Actually, the math says that 2.54 respondents haven't heard of Workplace, but I'm sure that equates to 4800 IBM customers...
Now, if you've waded through my *very* satirical post so far, let me direct you to some even more damaging analysis... Chris Byrne's post titled Lies, Damn Lies, and Radica... oops I mean Statistics. Chris spoke with a research firm expert on statistical analysis, and the numbers in the Radicati report just don't add up...
If it weren't for the fact that this "report" will get quoted in IT industry media, you could safely ignore it. But since it will show up somewhere, and since that "somewhere" could be the desk of your boss, make sure you understand what's in this report and why it's not statistically valid. Best to be prepared...
This morning I received an email via Google News Alert highlighting a press release for a new white paper saying how only 20% of IBM customers are planning on implementing Workplace. Of course, I had to check that out. And who should be the author of this industry report designed to give us insight to the IT universe and IBM in particular? Why, Radicati!
So much for insight...
If you head over to their website, you'll find a link to the report. It's available for free download, and it's worth every penny. Note: You'll have to use IE... The download link doesn't work in Firefox for me. Using state of the art statistical analysis, they were able to extrapolate the IT strategy of the entire 60000+ IBM/Lotus customer base from 32 survey responses. Wow... these guys are good! You'll find important things like 8% hadn't even heard of Workplace. Actually, the math says that 2.54 respondents haven't heard of Workplace, but I'm sure that equates to 4800 IBM customers...
Now, if you've waded through my *very* satirical post so far, let me direct you to some even more damaging analysis... Chris Byrne's post titled Lies, Damn Lies, and Radica... oops I mean Statistics. Chris spoke with a research firm expert on statistical analysis, and the numbers in the Radicati report just don't add up...
If it weren't for the fact that this "report" will get quoted in IT industry media, you could safely ignore it. But since it will show up somewhere, and since that "somewhere" could be the desk of your boss, make sure you understand what's in this report and why it's not statistically valid. Best to be prepared...
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