article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message gartner inc. gartner headquarters in stamford type public company traded as nyse it industry research founded 1979 ; 37 years ago 1979 by gideon gartner headquarters stamford connecticut u.s.a key people gene hall ceo craig safian cfo mike diliberto cio products research consulting events revenue us 2.163 bn 2015 operating income us 288 million 2015 net income us 175.6 m 2015 number of employees 7 834 2015 website gartner.com gartner inc. is an american research and advisory firm providing information technology related insight for it and other business leaders . its headquarters are in stamford connecticut united states . it was known as gartner group inc until 2001 when it was then changed to gartner . 1 research provided by gartner targets cios senior it marketing and supply chain leaders . gartner clients include large corporations government agencies technology companies and the investment community . the company consists of research executive programs consulting and events . founded in 1979 gartner has over 8 100 employees 2 3 including 1 280 in research 4 located in 85 countries . gartner uses hype cycles and magic quadrants for visualization of its market analysis results . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded in 1979 by gideon gartner . originally a private company the gartner group was launched publicly in the 1980s then acquired by saatchi & saatchi a london based advertising agency and then acquired in 1990 by some of its executives with funding from bain capital and dun & bradstreet . in 2001 the name was simplified to gartner . 5 in the course of its growth gartner has acquired numerous companies providing related services including real decisions which became gartner measurement now part of gartner s consulting division and gartner dataquest a market research firm . it has also acquired a number of direct competitors including newscience in the late 1990s meta group in 2005 and amr research and burton group in early 2010 . gene hall has been the ceo since august 2004 . in 2015 gartner acquired nubera the business app discovery network that owns properties like getapp appstorm appappeal or cloudwork . terms of the deal were not disclosed . 6 gartner has had major controversy in forecasts . in 2009 gartner predicted the pc market would experience the sharpest unit decline in history and a few quarters later it reported strongest growth rate in seven years . 7 the actual shipment decline starts the year 2010 . 8 and biggest pc market decline in 2016 9 see also edit connecticut portal companies portal information technology portal soundview technology group formerly gartner securities corp. references edit edgar form 10 q txt . securities and exchange commission . february 14 2001 . http www.gartner.com imagesrv pdf gartner corp factsheet gartnerataglance.pdf gartner corp fact sheet pdf . about gartner . retrieved march 10 2016 . gartner group records 1981 2000 . finding aid . university of minnesota . novoa jaime 2015 07 01 . gartner acquires barcelona based nubera getapp . novobrief . retrieved 2015 12 30 . why does the it industry continue to listen to gartner ibm and apple shipment 2016 pc market decline external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gartner & oldid 742638945 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangecompanies based in stamford connecticutcompanies established in 1979international information technology consulting firmsresearch and analysis firmsresearch and analysis firms of the united stateshidden categories articles needing additional references from march 2015all articles needing additional references 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 e tinadeutschespa ol fran ais bahasa indonesiaitaliano nederlands polskiportugu srom n suomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 22 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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