With its excellent analysts, Burton Group has long held the edge over its competition in key spaces like identity and security. Burton Group has done a lot to increase understanding and adoption of important technologies like Federation. Meanwhile, some other large analyst firms that go a mile wide and an inch deep, yet seem to have difficulty understanding fundamentals, particularly in app security, for example the difference between a WAF and a XML Security gateway. As a consultant, I am always glad when my clients are Burton Group subscribers because it means their people are likely to have a much more mature, in depth understanding of the technology space. Shops that randomly grab "solutions" out of quadrants/waves, without understanding how things hang together, frequently end up with bizarre architectures.
Burton Group's moat between its competition got wider last month when Bob Blakley joined. Now Burton Group has launched a group blog on Identity and Privacy Strategies. The second entry goes through the shots they called in 05 and the actual results. The prescience will not surprise their subscribers.
Why does all this matter? Well, IT is a fairly confusing metaverse to navigate, and it is always changing. Plus even people who have good skills in one area get thrown into new areas all the time, so having a solid end to end analysis that goes a mile deep, is a differentiator for any IT shop.
Update: ...and the moat gets wider: Pete Lindstrom joins Burton Group.
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