As many of you know, it has been a common practice for Gartner Research Managers to direct analysts on their teams who are authoring Magic Quadrants (MQs) not to participate, during the heart of any MQ process, in internal or remote SAS for vendors in the MQ.
Research leadership sees this as a best practice and thus has decided to make it a general policy, effective April 1, 2015. Here is the “MQ Closed-Period Policy”:
During the complete calendar month of planned publication for a particular MQ, and for the two complete preceding calendar months — that is, for a total period of three months — MQ authors will not participate in any internal or remote SAS with a vendor being evaluated in the particular MQ.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact your Account Executive or my team: ombudsman@gartner.com.
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