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… outscores brands like Toyota and Honda, which are widely reputed for superior quality. 
Chevrolet takes the inaccurate JD Power and associate polls and further exaggerates them. The video above shows exactly how. I have found the same thing with Gartner (and Forrester). In the article How Accurate Was The Forrester HANA TCO Study? We noted how Forrester specifically stated its estimates were projections. However, when SAP publicized the study, they changed it from a projection to a proven fact. No matter what an IT analyst writes, no matter how rigged, the IT analyst can depend upon the vendor’s marketing …

… where he or Gartner supports waste. Gartner and Di Maio support waste, as they are paid to support the wasteful commercial vendor model. Any vendor can hire Gartner to write any fake study for money. Notice our analysis of this work on their part How Gartner Distributes Press Releases On HANA. And it is not only Gartner, Forrester, and IDC that work the same way. And not coincidentally, they all criticize or emphasize open source.
Di Maio continues…
If governments want to fight the open source battle, they have to do so where they get more than marginal benefits: this …

… lobby against open source, which we cover in the article How Gartner Undermines Open Source for its Own Benefit.
If Gartner is Legitimate, Then….Why?
There is something that those who share Gartner material fail to recognize. Let us list just a few of them.

If Gartner’s output is so good, why is it so easy to lampoon?
Why do they appear to distribute press releases from mega-vendors? (as we cover in the article How Gartner Distributes Press Releases On HANA)
Why were they so wrong on IBM Watson? (as we cover in the article How Gartner …

… a year and takes multiple years in many cases. This is also for a new and immature application, hence INCREASING rather than decreasing its likely implementation duration.
How Bad Does it Get?
We have routinely lampooned various publications by these entities, including the article How Gartner Distributes Press Releases On HANA. There is literally no level of inaccuracy that we can document, even when our articles are widely read, that seems to cause questioning of how IT analysts can be legitimate if the quality of their output is so rigged and of such poor quality. Several publications are rigged and …