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By Jim Lundy Will you succeed or fail with Social? The tag line in the title, it depends, is there because for all the hype that Social receives, many enterprises expect they will succeed with Social no matter what. The reality is far different: many enterprise first attempts at going social fail. They fail often [...]
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 [...]
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Knowledge, Social Software Issues: How will enterprises take advantage of new ways to share knowledge and expertise? What are the best practices for leveraging social software to gain a competitive advantage. Summary: On August 27th, IBM announced that it was buying HCM provider [...]
By Jim Lundy You can’t read a technology blog today without getting hit with Cloud. The question that asked most often is: Are you ready for the Cloud? I’d like to suggest that you flip it and see if your vendor’s Cloud is really ready for you and your needs. The problem with Cloud, Applications [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Knowledge Issue: How will enterprises acquire and distribute knowledge? Summary: On December 15th, Salesforce announced that it was buying Rypple, a Social Performance Start-up. Terms of the deal were not released. Event: Salesforce announced it was buying Toronto based Rypple and [...]
