Burton Group Frequently Asked Question
Q: Who is Burton Group?A: Burton Group is a technology research firm, providing research & advisory and consulting services. Burton Group's technical depth and focus is unmatched in the industry, providing independent and actionable research and advice that is by technologists, for technologists.
Q: What Research Services does Burton provide?
A: Burton Group offers six research & advisory services, each offering in-depth research supported by a decision-making framework, in combination with direct, unlimited interaction with the industry’s leading analysts:
Application Platform Strategies: Software delivery teams are under tremendous pressure to prove value to their businesses. Application Platform addresses core strategies to help these teams improve the software delivery process, increase quality and reliability, reduce costs, and accelerate time to value.Collaboration and Content Strategies: Focuses on the complex set of decisions facing IT strategists in order to ensure that collaboration and content solutions gain broad user adoption, are extensible by developers, and leverage common infrastructure services while enabling applications that satisfy business needsData Center Strategies: New and future data center technologies for server and storage virtualization, compute densities, server and storage management improvements, and data center physical and logical architectures.Identity and Privacy Strategies: Identity Infrastructure Planning and building general-purpose infrastructure for managing and applying identity information, and supporting the digital identity lifecycle.Network & Telecom Strategies: Planning and building network infrastructure for managing the convergence of voice, video, and data networks.Security and Risk Management Strategies: Planning and creation of security architecture, infrastructure, and programs for complex global enterprise networks. Technology focused reports on vendor product offerings.
Each service consists of: In-Depth Research, Reference Architecture, Methodologies & Best Practices, Unlimited Analyst Dialogues, TeleBriefings, and Catalyst Conference.
Q: What Consulting Services does Burton Group provide?
A: Burton Group consultants provide a wide array of strategy and architecture consulting services related to our research coverage areas, ranging from full architecture development to compact, quick-start workshops. Specific projects can include schema design, directory architecture, vendor evaluations, technology strategies, RFI/RFP development & review, business justifications, and development of requirements and implementation plans.
Q: Who are Burton Group Clients?
A: The majority of Burton Group clients are Fortune 500 and Global 2000 end-user organizations.
Our client base spans key market sectors, including Financial Services, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Automotive, Insurance, Energy, Technology, Aerospace, Telecommunications, Publishing, Retail Government and Education
Eighty-six percent of our clients are non-vendors. We serve the research, advisory and consulting needs of the companies that use these technologies, not the companies that sell them.
Q: What makes Burton Group different from other technology research firms?
A: Three things make us unique in the industry:
1) Our Depth: We don’t cover everything; we cover key, focused areas and we cover them with greater depth and thoroughness than anyone in the industry. Where a standard “research report” on Identity Management from a typical research firm might be a 2-5 page high-level overview of trends and issues related to the topic, a typical Burton Group report on Identity Management is 49 pages long, and is written specifically for the IT Architect. The difference between Burton Group research and the all the rest is obvious.
2) Our Approach: Our Research services are architecture-based. We build each service around a Reference Architecture. The result of years of combined research and consulting experience from the industry’s leading analysts and consultants, the Reference Architecture consists of principles, templates, and positions that serve as a decision-making framework to guide you in determining how to use research within your organization. Our Reference Architecture approach provides a comprehensive and methodical – yet incredibly flexible – process to develop IT strategy.
3) Our Focus: Eighty-six percent of our revenues are from non-vendors. We serve the needs of the companies that use technology, not the companies that sell it. We don’t write vendor “white papers”, and our strict vendor-neutrality makes our analysis of technologies and vendors invaluable to the large enterprise.
Q: How does Burton Group charge for its research services?
A: Burton’s pricing is the most straightforward and practical in the industry: we sell your company an annual subscription to a service, and all components of the service are then available to every employee of your company worldwide. No hidden upgrade fees, no additional user fees, no high-usage fees, and no “international addenda”. One price, unlimited access.
Q: What is Catalyst Conference?
A: Burton Group Catalyst Conference is for Enterprise Technologists working to drive change within their organization. This industry shaping conference brings together IT leaders to explore cutting-edge ideas, current challenges a well as emerging technologies shaping today's and tomorrow's enterprise. Catalyst Conference is renowned for its attendee-driven agenda, high-profile speakers, in-depth content and fiercely independent point of view. Catalyst Conference is a must-attend event for enterprise IT leaders.
Q: What is Burton Group's vendor-independence policy?
A: We take pride in our vendor independence. More than 80 percent of our customers are enterprise organizations, and our uncompromising commitment to be an unbiased advocate for the enterprise customer guides all of our work.
Since our founding in 1990, we have not published vendor-sponsored research of any kind. We cover relevant vendors and products without regard for vendors’ subscription to our services. We maintain complete independence from vendor agendas, providing unbiased assessments of markets, vendors, and products. In keeping with our mission, we provide technically in-depth, independent research and advice for the enterprise technologist.
Since our founding in 1990, we have not published vendor-sponsored research of any kind. We cover relevant vendors and products without regard for vendors’ subscription to our services. We maintain complete independence from vendor agendas, providing unbiased assessments of markets, vendors, and products. In keeping with our mission, we provide technically in-depth, independent research and advice for the enterprise technologist.
Q: Tell me more about Burton Group.
A: Burton has been providing technology research and consulting services since 1990. We’re a distributed company, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with staff throughout North America and Europe. Our analysts and consultants have an average of more 15 years industry experience, and are the best and the brightest in their field. Burton is privately-held, self-funded company that is consistently growing to the top of the industry.
Q: Whom should I contact for further Information?
A: Contact:
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