By Jim Lundy We have a culture at Aragon Research of Kaizen (Japanese word for continuous improvement). Over the weekend, we updated our website with a new look and feel. So far, we have gotten great feedback, but we would like to hear from you. We also made it easier to subscribe to our posts [...]
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 [...]
Yammer sold to Microsoft for $1.2 Billion in Cash
June 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy Yammer is no longer an independent company, as it was announced today that it is being bought by Tech Titan Microsoft. Yammer will land in the Office division, where Microsoft Office President Kurt Delbene holds court. We’ll be writing a full Aragon Research First Cut on this announcement, but we wanted to [...]
Cisco Live Summarized in Four Words: Execution, Network, Cloud, Jabber
June 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy Cisco held its annual Cisco Live Networking Education Event this week and we were in attendance at the San Diego Convention Center. Cisco had over 17,000 customers and partners in attendance as well as a number of Industry Analysts. Chairman and CEO John Chambers gave a compelling business update on Cisco’s progress over [...]
The Consumerization of Voice and Video
May 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy Consumerization has arrived in the realtime video and voice collaboration space (aka real time collaboration or UC&C). Consumers can do things today that are as good or nearly as good as the features offered by the high end Enterprise grade UC&C offerings. Google has had their video based Hangouts for a while now, but [...]
Crowdsourcing Market Forecasting: The Open Forecast Project
May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy Anyone who buys or sells technology products or services is always keen to know how the market for those goods is going to behave. It is a great business for forecasters, but as many that focus on market valuations know, it isn’t an exact science. Open Forecast Project opens up the secret [...]
Tablets and TVs: why your next Television might be from Apple
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy Tablets were not on most peoples’ radar when Apple introduced the iPad in 2010. Apple is very clever in how it prepares to enter established markets. It caught the PC industry completely off guard when it introduced the iPad and it is about to do that to the Television set market. On [...]
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 [...]
Tablet Wars are Coming: Lower Prices, Smaller Sizes
April 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy Will 2012 finally be the year that the Tablet wars get started? So far, not in the first half, but the second half looks promising mainly due to new form factors. Rumor are swirling about smaller 7 inch tablets coming from Google and Apple. The main thing that is occurring is the maturation [...]
Cloud Trends Panel with Google, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy At the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s 16th annual Intergovernmental Technology Conference (ITC), I moderated the opening panel on Trends in Government Cloud Computing. It featured the biggest names in Cloud and a few others. The panelists were mainly regional executives from Google, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon from the Mid-Atlantic area. It was great [...]
Social Performance – What is Social Worth?
March 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
By Jim Lundy Social Performance was all the rage yesterday at Salesforce’s Cloudforce Event in San Francisco. The Salesforce Rypple – Social Performance capability was announced at a price point of $5.00 per user/month and it is a milestone for Salesforce’s entry into HCM. Social Performance and Salesforce Rypple Salesforce Rypple provides the ability to [...]
Talent and HCM Part III: Kenexa Buys Learning Provider Outstart
February 20, 2012 By
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Knowledge Issue: How will enterprises acquire and distribute knowledge? Summary: On February 6th, Kenexa announced that it was buying Learning Suite provider Outstart for US $38.9 million in cash. Event: In its earnings announcement, Kenexa revealed that it was buying Outstart [...]
Voice Assistants will change the way you work
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy Last night, as myself and our VP of Sales Don Kibler were preparing for an evening meal, we were using mobile apps to find a decent restaurant. We fiddled with the apps for ten minutes looking for decent places to eat near our hotel, something you’ve probably done if you travel in [...]
Learning Content – Shifting to Advanced Simulations and Gaming
February 14, 2012 By 1 Comment
By Jim Lundy I gave a talk recently to some major enterprises who do Learning Content development. The discussion was around the shift from static learning content to an evolution of more advanced simulations and eventually gaming. Learning Simulations – Easier and Cheaper to develop The discussion involved the state of simulations and most agreed [...]
HCM and Talent Merger Wars Claim more Victims
February 9, 2012 By 1 Comment
By Jim Lundy With the announcement today that Oracle is in the process of buying Taleo less than sixty days after SAP announced it was buying SuccessFactors, the race is on to offer the most complete Talent/HCM Suite. This comes on the heels of Kenexa announcing yesterday that it was buying Learning Suite provider Outstart. [...]
How Apple Ushered in a New Era of Computing
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy A new era of computing is upon us. It involves touch and voice, simplicity and apps that let people do amazing things. It is one in which the operating system stays in the background and doesn’t get in the way of people doing work, watching movies, playing games or listening to music. [...]
Countdown to the First Aragon Globe on Enterprise Social Software
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The first Aragon Research Globe Report is underway and Enterprise Social Software is the market we are evaluating. We will be evaluating over 25 providers of Enterprise Social Software. There are vendors that you know and some you don’t. Our Aragon Globe for Enterprise Social Software Research Note will publish in March and while there [...]
Cisco focuses on Collaboration
February 2, 2012 By 2 Comments
Editors Note: This Blog Post was originally published on November 18th, 2011. By Jim Lundy I’ve covered Cisco for years and this week attended their Collaboration Analyst and Partner Summit in Miami. We published an Aragon Research First Cut with our Analysis of their new product announcements; this blog post is about the changes I [...]
Your Life, For Sale on Facebook
February 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
Editors Note, This Blog post was originally posted on Sept 22, 2011 By Jim Lundy If 2011 was the year of the Like button for Facebook, 2012 could be called the return of the app. Today at their annual Developer Conference (D8) in San Francisco, Facebook unveiled new capabilities that increasingly are focused on allowing Facebook to monetize [...]
CIOs: Buy a Private App Store for Mobile
January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy In conversations we have been having with end-user clients lately, one of the hot topics for the CIOs is Mobile, specifically Tablet Computers. They all have to support them, starting with the Executive Suite, followed quickly by Sales. In fact in what appears to be a repeating story, many firms across multiple [...]
