I'm going to voice an extremely unpopular opinion.

One that could even get me "cancelled"...

There are quite a few different research firms out there, and we all know the big names.

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When you peel back the curtain, it's typically not real research that goes into it.

It looks like the following at a high level:
- There's a paper that needs to be written based on demand.
- You pick X amount of vendors to go into the paper.

(cont)
- You chat with all of them for about an hour. They show you a PowerPoint presentation/sales pitch about the product.
- You take that and write about it.
So, in short, a lot of these papers that are written are nothing more than more marketing.

They aren't practitioner-led. They aren't engineering-led. They are a long-winded sales tool to hopefully get a product bought.
I believe the days of this type of "research" are going to be behind us very quickly.

We need industry-led research for organizations to make actual, valuable decisions.
Engineers need research that'll show them what platforms to actually use, and CTO's need research to show them the actual benefit.

There needs to be practitioner -led research. Research that comes from real data in the field.
There are too many platforms, tools, and products for engineers and CTO's to make decisions on based on more marketing papers.

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