Finding Magic Quadrant Reports
Posted By Dashboard Spy ~ 12th December 2011
Hello Dashboard Spy readers!
Just a quick post to share a technique on finding lots of those ever-so-fascinating Magic Quadrant reports from Gartner.
A lot of you have been asking how I dig up the actual reports. Yes, they can be hard to find.
Here is the trick:
Companies that get mentioned favorably in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reports like to get the rights to distribute them. You can find them available for download in their websites. Most often you have to go through a registration process to get them but here’s a quick way to find them using Google.
We take advantage of a consistent “footprint” in the reports themselves. (remember all those pattern findng tricks we’d do back in the day to do screen scrapiing?).
Go to google and enter this into the search box:
“magic quadrant for” filetype:pdf
Yes, use the quotes.
Also, I like to pick the date range as “past year” – you can do this in the “advanced search” to get more recent results.
Try running the search and you’ll find direct links to many Magic Quadrant reports!
Enjoy this simple search technique! Hope it opens your mind to using “footprints” as a seach technique.
Here’s a link to simply click on:
Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports on Google
Hubert Lee
The Dashboard Spy
