Qualtrics converge

This article is from April 2017;  SAP’s planned acquisition of Qualtrics for $8bn puts it in a new light, but the main points still stand. Last week, I went to the first big Qualtrics event in Europe – Converge. Not quite on the scale of its earlier Summit in Salt Lake City (no Elton John at this one … mercifully), but […]

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SAP & Qualtrics UX software

So SAP just announced that it’s buying Qualtrics for $8bn. That’s roughly two Kantars, one Nielsen or about a fifth of the global research industry. It’s also around 20 times Qualtrics’ forecast revenue for 2018 ($400m). That’s a serious premium. For comparison, IBM is paying around 10x revenue for Red Hat; and salesforce.com trades at

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insight platforms

Who would start a research agency these days? If you’re thinking about doing it in the UK, make sure you read the latest Plimsoll report into the sector first. It’s a sobering read. It is based on financial analysis of the 720 largest market research firms in the country. If that stat by itself doesn’t give

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Creativity meets AI

My last post here examined how tech tools can help in an ever-increasing set of research scenarios (checking hypotheses on the fly, qual at scale, easier analysis of ethno data & remote qual analysis). In this one, I look at where this might lead us.  New skills, new roles, new tasks So what’s the payoff

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