By Jim Lundy The year was 2004 and it was then that it became clear how pervasive Web Conferencing was becoming. That was the year that Lou Latham and I authored the very first Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing. Of course, both Lou and I are now at Aragon Research and we are pleased to [...]
The iPad as a video and web conferencing device
July 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy The last two days at our Aragon Research offsite, we had a need for video sharing with a remote colleague and we did not have a room based or dedicated video conferencing system. To make a long story short, we ended up using an Apple iPad 2 as a video capture device [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cisco Gets Serious about Collaboration
November 17, 2011 By
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration, Social Software Issues: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? How will Social Software technologies evolve? Summary: On November 16th, Cisco announced enhancements to its Collaboration Portfolio, including Video, Social, Mobile and Presence that position it to [...]
