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12YR RESEARCH
12 Years of Research
Since 2013

The research your competitors are already reading.

Dense, opinionated analyses that name winners, flag risks, and redraw competitive landscapes — written for the boardroom, not the press release.

340+
Reports Published
$2.4B
Deals Informed
94%
Prediction Accuracy
180+
Enterprise Clients
Research & Testimony

Twelve decision-makers. One pattern.

Cloud Infrastructure
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AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP: The 2025 Enterprise Migration Decision

Our 18-month tracking of 214 migration projects reveals a decisive inflection point: total cost of ownership diverges sharply at the 500-node threshold. The vendor your sales rep favors is rarely the vendor your infrastructure team should choose.

68 pp.Jan 2025
"I had three vendor briefings scheduled for the same week as this report dropped. I cancelled all three and sent the report to my board instead. It said everything I needed to say — better than I could have said it."
Priya Venkataraman
CTO, Meridian Financial Group
Cloud migration: $14M infrastructure decision
"We use AnalystFirm reports as the baseline for every acquisition thesis in the enterprise software space. The competitive landscape section alone saves my team two weeks of primary research."
Jonathan Osei
Managing Director, Blackthorn Capital Partners
Due diligence on $380M SaaS acquisition
Cybersecurity
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Zero Trust in Practice: What 89 Enterprise Deployments Actually Looked Like

The gap between zero-trust marketing and zero-trust implementation is measured in years and millions. This report maps what vendors promise against what security teams actually shipped.

54 pp.Nov 2024
AI/ML

Enterprise LLM Deployment: The Shortlist Has Narrowed to Four

After evaluating 31 enterprise AI platforms across 9 decision criteria — including total cost, hallucination rates, compliance posture, and integration depth — four platforms have separated from the field. Two are safe bets. One is a dark horse. One is a liability. We name all four.

92 pp.Feb 2025
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"The platform your AI vendor is recommending is the one they sell."
"The fintech infrastructure report gave our investment committee the independent voice it needed. We closed the deal fourteen days after the briefing."
Saoirse Hannigan
VP of Strategy, Castlegate Ventures
Fintech infrastructure investment thesis
"I've been subscribing for four years. The cybersecurity coverage is the only research I trust to be genuinely vendor-neutral. That's rarer than it sounds."
Marcus Webb
Chief Information Security Officer, Northbrook Logistics
Security vendor consolidation program
Supply Chain
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Supply Chain Orchestration Platforms: The 2025 Vendor Landscape

Twelve platforms entered our evaluation. Six made the shortlist. Three are acquisition targets within 18 months. This report identifies which.

47 pp.Dec 2024
"The briefing changed the way I framed the board presentation. The analyst knew the competitive dynamics better than the vendors did."
David Nakamura
SVP Technology Strategy, Everstone Group
Coverage Areas

Six domains. 340 reports. No vendor sponsorship.

Cloud Infrastructure

Hyperscaler comparisons, migration economics, multi-cloud architecture, and FinOps — the decisions that define your next five years of compute.

Most recent: AWS Graviton vs. Azure Ampere: The ARM Inflection
84

Cybersecurity

Zero trust deployments, SIEM vendor landscapes, incident response platforms, and the compliance frameworks that actually matter to your auditors.

Most recent: EDR Consolidation: The 2025 Shortlist
67

AI / ML Platforms

Enterprise LLM deployments, MLOps vendor landscapes, and the governance frameworks separating production-ready AI from proof-of-concept theater.

Most recent: Enterprise LLM Deployment: Four Platforms Remain
58

Fintech Infrastructure

Core banking modernization, payment rail architecture, embedded finance platforms, and the regulatory exposure most vendors won't discuss.

Most recent: Core Banking Replacement: The Risk No One Prices
51

Supply Chain Tech

Orchestration platforms, demand sensing tools, and the post-pandemic vendor consolidation reshaping procurement at Fortune 500 scale.

Most recent: Supply Chain Orchestration: Six Platforms, One Winner
43

Enterprise SaaS

CRM, ERP, and HCM vendor landscapes — the platforms your organization will live inside for the next decade, evaluated without vendor sponsorship.

Most recent: Salesforce vs. HubSpot at Enterprise Scale
37
The Analysts

Named researchers. Verifiable track records.

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Dr. Catherine Holt
Senior Research Fellow
Cloud Infrastructure & FinOps

Former infrastructure architect at two Fortune 100 companies. Her cloud migration frameworks are used by 34 enterprise IT teams.

11 years
Tenure
94
Reports
96%
Accuracy
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Rajiv Mehta
Principal Analyst
Cybersecurity & Compliance

Previously led threat intelligence at a major financial institution. Named to SC Media's Top 25 Security Voices three years running.

8 years
Tenure
67
Reports
93%
Accuracy
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Amara Okonkwo
Principal Analyst
AI/ML & Data Platforms

PhD in computational statistics from Carnegie Mellon. Tracks enterprise AI deployments with a rigor that vendors have learned to respect.

6 years
Tenure
58
Reports
91%
Accuracy
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Thomas Breckenridge
Senior Analyst
Fintech & Banking Infrastructure

Former product director at a top-10 US bank. The only analyst covering core banking modernization who has shipped a core banking system.

9 years
Tenure
51
Reports
94%
Accuracy
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