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By Jim Lundy Fresh off a new funding round of over $25 Million, Cloud Identity Management provider Okta looks like it is getting ready to catch the transition of enterprises to Cloud Apps by offering an easy to implement Cloud Identity Service. The more interesting move that caught our eye was the recent hiring of [...]
By Jim Lundy At about the same time I wrote the post about Jim Hollincheck leaving Gartner and joining Workday, another Gartner Thought Leader Bill Clark was also doing the same thing, but instead he decided to apply his thought leadership in Mobile at SAP. On Linkedin, Bill is listed as the Global VP for [...]
By Mike Anderson RIM has its future bet on the new BlackBerry 10 OS and BlackBerry 10 devices. The reviews of early prototypes and beta versions of the OS have been positive. Developers have been courted in droves, and even given financial incentives to bring apps to market before there is a market for them. [...]
By Jim Lundy Microsoft held its annual SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas on October 13-18, 2012 and it was memorable in a number of ways, not the least of which was the intensity of the participants. We will be discussing SharePoint 2013 in more detail in separate posts and First Cuts, this Blog is about [...]
By Jim Lundy It was just a year ago and the only serious Tablet on the market was the iPad 2. Apple sold 15.43 million iPad 2s in the fourth quarter of 2011. Jump ahead to the holiday season for 2012 and the iPad Mini and Google Nexus 7 just started shipping in volume. In numerous [...]
By Jim Lundy At a session here at the SharePoint 2012 Conference (#SPC12), Yammer and Microsoft clarified the direction they are taking for where enterprises should look for deploying Social Networking. Given the major reduction in pricing announced at the event (Yammer Enterprise goes from 15/user/month to 3/user/month. See Yammer Blog), it is clear that [...]
By Jim Lundy For many of you that I’ve worked with over the years, you know that for nearly the entire time I was at Gartner, Corporate Learning was one of the topics I covered (aka, LMS, LCMS Virtual Classroom, Learning Content). It wasn’t an easy topic to cover and over the years, I advised [...]
By Jim Lundy For most of my working career, I was a card carrying member of the Device you got from IT and for most of that time, it was a Windows Laptop. That all changed in 2008, when we moved from Upstate New York back to Silicon Valley. Even back then, everywhere I went [...]
By Jim Lundy Cisco held its annual Collaboration Summit in Los Angeles on October 13-15, 2012 and partners, customers and analysts were in attendance. To us it was all about Video (H.265), Customers, Webex and Content (Files). Like almost every Cisco event, the 2012 edition of Collaboration Summit was as polished and professional as any [...]
By Jim Lundy This blog post is about the rise of Social Recognition, but it could be titled the coming war between Badgeville and Globoforce (Badging vs Corporate Recognition), but we’ll leave vendor wars for future discussions. At the #HRTECH Conference a few weeks ago, our biggest take away was that the socialization of corporate [...]
By Jim Lundy This week has lots of events going on and lots of tablet product announcements. Whether you are at IBM IOD or Gartner Symposium or any other event, the new Tablets, including the highly anticipated iPad Mini, are about to become available, just in time for the Holiday season. Given all of these [...]
By Mike Anderson The Tablet Era is here, and the war for tablet leadership is escalating. On the eve of Microsoft’s tablet entry and the highly anticipated iPad Mini from Apple, the focus on devices is at the forefront. Although it’s still early in the mobile evolution, the success of tablets is fueling a transition that [...]
By Jim Lundy Box held its second annual Boxworks customer event in San Francisco on Oct 8th and 9th, 2012 at the Westin St. Francis. We were at BoxWorks in 2011 and while that was a solid event, this year it felt like a completely different (and larger) experience. The 2012 edition of BoxWorks was [...]
By Jim Lundy In a recent post, I asked if your Cloud Vendors were ready to support your enterprise. This week Tech Titans AT&T and IBM responded and announced a joint initiative that signals a response to the growing global cyber security threat. I’ve written about Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and Cyber espionage in the [...]
By Jim Lundy The art and science of developing new products is as challenging as it ever was, but today, in a digital era, it is getting harder to find that next big idea. Look at any great product and there were always a number of factors that went into how that product came to [...]
By Jim Lundy The war between SAP and Oracle just got a little nastier. At Oracle World this week, SAP launched a combined Marketing and Social Media Campaign that Featured its Hana offering in a face off against Oracle Exadata and Exalytics. The SAP campaign featured: – Full Page Wall Street Journal Ad – Sponsored [...]
By Jim Lundy AllThingsD.com is reporting that Apple wanted Google to add turn by turn directions to the iOS Maps app, which was supplied by Google to Apple. For those that don’t know, Google Android has had voice based turn-by-turn directions for some time. A co-worker has an Android phone and we have used that [...]
By Jim Lundy Salesforce held it’s tenth Dreamforce (#DF12) event last week in San Francisco and we were there. There were a number of product announcements that took place there and we will be analyzing them (Marketing Cloud, Sales Cloud, Collaboration) in several Aragon Research First Cuts. This blog post is about the event and [...]
By Jim Lundy The Social Human Capital Management (Social HCM) market just got more interesting because it is going Social. This week Salesforce is throwing down the gauntlet and announcing its Work.com Social Performance Management offering. Most that follow HCM know that Salesforce bought Rypple in 2011 (see our First Cut: Salesforce buys Rypple, Signals [...]
By Jim Lundy As we put some finishing touches on a Research Note about the coming Tablet Wars, there is one key finding that we’ve seen with enterprises. Much of the focus of BYOD has been on supporting Smart Phones, such as iPhone, Android and existing RIM Blackberrys. Tablets raise more issues because you can [...]
