article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources real story group news newspapers books scholar jstor free images september 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message real story group type privately held industry market research founded 2001 by tony byrne headquarters 3470 olney laytonsville road suite 131 olney md website www.realstorygroup.com real story group known as cms watch until february 2010 1 is a digital workplace and marketing technology analyst firm headquartered in silver spring united states with offices in boston new york city philadelphia washington dc bangalore and delhi . the company provides advisory services to buyers of business technology and publishes reports on various areas including web content management enterprise mobile platforms digital marketing technology enterprise search digital asset management media asset management sharepoint and social software . the company asserts that unlike many other market players it works only for technology solutions buyers and never for vendors . 2 the company has been founded by tony byrne a software analyst . 3 real story group has a reputation in the tech media for being comparatively more critical of technology vendors than other analyst firms for example criticizing google s enterprise search appliance for putting marketing a couple of steps ahead of engineering 4 noting the unreal expectations created by sales messages about the advantages and benefits of digital asset management systems 5 and warning customers about vendors touting expansive marketing suites . 6 media firms have also tended to take note of real story group s vendor maps . 7 references edit welcome to the real story group . retrieved 24 february 2010 . cms watch about us . retrieved 28 june 2013 . tony byrne real story group analyst . cmswatch.com . retrieved on 20 october 2011 . google search appliance fades away . retrieved 22 february 2016 . what to expect of digital asset management in the near future . retrieved 22 february 2016 . tony byrne there s no such thing as a dx platform dxs15 . retrieved 22 february 2016 . real story group maps digital workplace martech space . retrieved 3 december 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title real story group & oldid 740035012 categories research and analysis firmsresearch and analysis firms of the united stateshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from september 2015all articles with topics of unclear notabilityuse dmy dates from october 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 18 september 2016 at 17 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view