2011 SUCCESS STORIES, ENTERPRISES
- A new $ 10 billion + American Client
  A leader in services for the energy sector, this NY-headquartered group with annual turnover of $ 25 billion signs contract with BIT Analyst Group. Here is the story.
  A CIO has three ways of getting support from analyst firms : (1) market studies with a little bit of qualitative analysis; (2) the IT encyclopedia represented by Gartner and Forrester; (3) the Digital Enterprise approach of the BIT Group with the best-in-the world 'Business & IT' integration.
  This can be viewed as a maturity model.
  This energy services group started its journey bottom-up, first selecting IDC as a partner for on-going analysis services. But it soon realizes that this was limited, so they moved a stage up evaluating GG and FR encyclopedia that are partially redoundant and not independent from each other as well as from the IT vendors that represent some 35% of their annual revenues.
  Once GG picked up, they did not take FR as challenger or second supplier as they agree to the above. Rather they selected one of the Top 3 American 'analyst boutiques' to challenge GG on demand.
  Again, the solution did not appear good enough as they wanted to get a real Business & IT support for their new product line made more and more intelligent through software.
  This is why they get interested in the BIT Analyst Group's approach, Digital Enterprise 2020: 3 generations of enterprises, 3 generations of ... that is unique in the market place.
  From a first meeting in May, contract started as of August 2011.
- And two more multi-year on-going advisory services contracts in Europe
  BIT Analyst Group was selected as the 'most innovative Value Proposition' in two worldwide tenders, beating incumbent GG & 7 other contenders, namely for a French Energy Group and a coalition of European banks.
  The pricing grid was also reckoned as the best (lowest).
LONGEST SUCCESS STORY
- Eight years of partnership
  Leading French Insurance Group (10 billion euros) renewed its subscription-based contract for the 8th year in a row in early 2012.
  This on-going advisory 'analysis services & benchmarking' contract is founded on the weekly BITRADARS that develop along the way the BIT Analyst's Group strategic vision for the evolution of global organizations into the 21st century, Digital Enterprise 2020.
  Bitradars are written by the analysts of the BIT Group and/or of its American Partner WinterGreen Research.
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INTEGRITY & OBJECTIVITY
- BLOOMBERG AND THOMPSON FINANCIAL
  The BIT Analyst Group and WinterGreen Research (its American Partners) are brands that stand for integrity and objectivity.
  Back in May 2009, the ZLTI Software company filed a complaint against GG and its MQ figures for false information, diffamation, .... The file front page can be freely downloaded from our website.
  This in turn triggered investigations in different leading information groups, fearing to be sued for unfair IT vendors analysis and sponsored market data studies, fact that they could no longer ignore.
  Bloomberg and Thompson Financial have thoroughly evaluated BIT and WGR and found that our studies were not sponsored by any IT vendor and our competitive landscapes assessments were objective.
  This is also true for our 'Golden Triangles' figures that position vendors in a scheme derived from the capitalistic markets axiom.
  In 2011, both institutions became clients.
  As a reminder, BIT and WGR sell their studies throughout the world via a 35 distributor network.