Alta Communications (Boston, MA), a private equity firm that specializes in media and telecommunications investments, and Emily Green, a former executive at Yankee Group rival Forrester Research (Cambridge, MA), has acquired The Yankee Group (Boston, MA), a provider of communications and networking research and consulting services, from the Decision Matrix Group (DMG; Boston, MA).
Alta Communications (Boston, MA), a private equity firm that specializes in media and telecommunications investments, and Emily Green, a former executive at Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. rival Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
- Founded: 1983 by George F.
(Cambridge, MA), has acquired The Yankee Group (Boston, MA), a provider of communications and networking research and consulting services, from the Decision Matrix Group (DMG (Disk iMaGe) The file format used in the Macintosh for distributing Mac software. Mac install packages appear as a virtual disk drive on the Mac as if you had inserted a CD or floppy disk. ; Boston, MA). No terms of the deal were given. DMG acquired the Yankee Group in 2004 from Reuters Group. The Monitor Group LP, the world's fourth leading strategy consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee
consulting company
business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , founded DMG with the goal of "building the next generation research and consulting firm."
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