Gartner

Gartner, founded in 1979, is a global research and advisory company. The research and advisory company provides information, advice, and tools for leaders in IT, finance, HR, customer service and support, communications, legal and compliance, marketing, sales, and supply chain functions. This company provides indispensable insights, advice and tools to CIOs, senior IT, marketing, and supply chain managers. Gartner also offers strategic advices provided by experts to help challenge conventional thinking and accomplish critical activities. In addition to trusted insights, the company provides tools and programs to help leaders turn strategy into decisions and execute for measurable results.

After being launched publicly the first time in the 1980s, Saatchi & Saatchi, a London-based advertising agency, acquired Gartner and then acquired in 1990 by some of its executives, with funding from Bain Capital and Dun & Bradstreet. 3 years later, Gartner went public again in 1993. In the 2000s, the company acquired numerous companies and competitors including Real Decisions, Meta Group, AMR Research and Burton Group and Ideas International in 2012.

Now, Gartner is serving more than 14,000 client enterprises around the world as a member of the S&P 500, with clients in 76% of the Global 500.