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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Jim Lundy Editors Note: This blog on Patent Wars was originally posted on August 17, 2011. Patent battles among tech giants are not new. What is new is the realization that mobile is the new battle ground and the stakes are high. In patent wars, it is a chess game and one of the [...]
By Jim Lundy The next Facebook FB (eg. Facebook Next) is already under development. No one knows what the app will be called or who the lucky innovator will be, but it is clear that there will be a new app that will rise, challenge and overtake Facebook. In 2006, if anyone thought that [...]
By Jim Lundy iPhones (and Android Phones) can do a lot, thanks to nearly a million apps between them. The last two days Aragon Research was at ITC in Harrisburg, PA and we gave show floor presentations both days in a small theatre on the show floor (similar to what you see at Gartner Events). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Jim Lundy Over the weekend, I had a few problems with Microsoft Word 2011 running on OS X Lion that prompted me to check the settings for Word. Surprise, I found that Word 2011 is not set to automatically create a backup file of your documents, something that since the earliest days of Office [...]
