By Jim Lundy I turned on the TV in my hotel room yesterday and bam! – there was Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on Good Morning America pitching the new, revamped Flickr photo-sharing site (Yahoo has owned Flickr since 2005). It looked clean, but the bigger story she was telling was: one free terabyte of storage! – [...]
What Enterprises Should Learn from Citrix Adding Real-time to Podio
May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration, Social Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Issue: How will the social HCM market evolve? Summary: Citrix announced new real-time collaboration capabilities for its social networking platform, Podio. This signals a trend toward integrating real-time collaboration and social [...]
Peoplefluent Prepares for the Pervasive Video Era; Announces Acquisition of Video Content Management Provider KZO Innovations by Bedford Funding
April 30, 2013 By 2 Comments
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration, Social HCM Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Issue: How will the social HCM market evolve? Summary:On Wednesday April 24th, 2013, Peoplefluent announced the acquisition of video content management (VCM) provider KZO Innovations by Bedford Funding. Event: Peoplefluent [...]
Firefox Mobile OS Faces Huge Enterprise Hurdles
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Authors: Mike Anderson, Jim Lundy Topic: Mobile Issue: Who are the mobile ecosystem providers and how will they navigate a crowded market? Summary: On February 24th, Mozilla announced it had secured 18 carriers as partners for the launch of its open-source mobile operating system, Firefox OS. Event: On February [...]
IBM Connect 2013: IBM Gets Smarter about Software, Services and Partners
January 31, 2013 By 2 Comments
By Jim Lundy At IBM Connect 2013, the IBM Software Group demonstrated that it has begun to execute a transformation strategy away from its former Lotus brand to focus on social business, a smarter workforce (a code name for social HCM) and cognitive computing (IBM calls it Watson). IBM is getting smarter about how [...]
Polycom Takes Bold Steps to Transform the Video Era
November 28, 2012 By 3 Comments
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Authors: Mike Anderson, Jim Lundy Topic: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Summary: On Monday October 8th, 2012, Polycom announced a new Video Cloud Axis offering, along with updates to nearly all of its products. Event: Polycom held its first analyst day [...]
Spigit Makes Innovation Predictable with Crowdcast Purchase
October 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Social Software Issue: Who are the social software providers and how will they navigate a crowded market? Summary: On Sept 18th, Spigit announced it was buying Crowdcast for an undisclosed sum. Event: Spigit announced it was purchasing Crowdcast via a press release. The founders [...]
Microsoft Revamps Office For the Cloud and Tablet Era
July 19, 2012 By 1 Comment
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Content Management, Mobile and Tablets Issues: What are the best practices for managing content across the enterprise? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: On July 16th, 2012, Microsoft announced the preview of Office 2013, Office 365 and all of its flagship Office division products. Event: At a press [...]
BoxTone Declares MDM Price War
July 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Mike Anderson Topic: Mobile and Tablets Issue: What are the best practices for harnessing the power of mobile computing? What are the trends impacting mobile computing? Summary: BoxTone announced special pricing of 99 cents per device for the mobile device management (MDM) module of its enterprise mobile management [...]
Marissa Mayer: Sheryl Sandberg Set Stage for Her Move to Yahoo
July 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
by Jim Lundy Last year I was at a Silicon Valley conference where Marissa Mayer gave the closing keynote, about performance management at Google. It was a straightforward, highly effective speech, and she delivered it with tremendous energy. Seeing her talk, my impression was simple: “She will go far.” Marissa Mayer and the Sheryl Sandberg [...]
Google Fortifies its Mobile Ecosystem, Prepares for Tablet Wars
July 10, 2012 By 2 Comments
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Mobile and Tablets Issue: How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: At Google I/O June 26th, Google demonstrated Android 4.1 with updates to content, apps and voice navigation. Event: At Google I/O in San Francisco on June 27-28, 2012, [...]
AirWatch Brings BYOD Support to OS X
June 29, 2012 By 1 Comment
AirWatch Brings BYOD Support to OS X To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Mike Anderson Topic: Mobile Issues: What are the best practices for harnessing the power of mobile computing? What are the trends impacting mobile computing? Summary: AirWatch announced support for Mac desktop and laptop devices in its mobile management suite. Support [...]
Microsoft Buys Yammer for 1.2 Billion; Validates Race for the Social Enterprise
June 29, 2012 By
Microsoft Buys Yammer for 1.2 Billion; Validates Race for the Social Enterprise To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Note: Aragon Research also conducted a Webinar on this acquisition. To download the slides, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Content Management, Social Software Issues: What are the best practices for managing content across the enterprise? Who [...]
Apple iOS 6: Siri’s Voice Gets Louder
June 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Apple iOS 6: Siri’s Voice Gets Louder To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Mobile Issues: What are the best practices for managing content across the enterprise? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: Apple announced iOS 6, the sixth version of its mobile OS. A key part of the announcement was the expansion of its [...]
Oracle Takes its Public Cloud Live
June 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Oracle Takes its Public Cloud Live To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Mike Anderson Topic: Workplace Issues: What technologies and architectures should enterprises leverage in the workplace? Summary: Oracle Cloud provides subscription based self-service access to over 100 enterprise application, social, middleware and database services. Event: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison used an executive strategy [...]
LinkedIn Security Breach Reinforces Need to Secure Social Networks and Content
June 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
LinkedIn Security Breach Reinforces Need to Secure Social Networks and Content To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy, Mike Anderson Topics: Workplace, Social Software Issues: What technologies and architectures should enterprises leverage in the workplace? What are the best practices for leveraging social software to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: Hackers defeated security [...]
Yammer Ignites the Race for the Social Workplace with OneDrum Acquisition
April 24, 2012 By 2 Comments
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Content Management, Social Software Issues:: What are the best practices for managing content across the enterprise? Who are the social software providers and how will they navigate a crowded market? Summary: On April 11th, Yammer announced the acquisition of Scotland-based OneDrum, which offers desktop [...]
Cisco Makes Jabber Free, Sets Stage for UCC Battle with Microsoft Lync
April 20, 2012 By
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration, Mobile Issues:: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: On April 18th, Cisco announced it would make Jabber, its UCC client, free for existing Cisco customers. The move [...]
Box OneCloud will Challenge Google and Microsoft
April 13, 2012 By
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Content Management, Mobile Issue: What are the best practices for managing content across the enterprise? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: On March 28th, Box announced OneCloud for iOS, along with a new Apps Marketplace that it integrates [...]
Symantec Rounds Out Its Mobile Management Portfolio With Nukona
April 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Mike Anderson Topic: Mobile Issue: Who are the vendors that are battling to lead the mobile computing revolution? Summary: Symantec significantly expanded its mobile app and device management portfolio with the acquisition of Nukona. Event: On March 20th Symantec announced it was acquiring Nukona, a privately held [...]
