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By Mike Anderson I read an interesting blog post by Microsoft exec Fernando de Sousa about technology change in Africa and how it presents investment opportunities. A contention was that Africa is an incubator for innovation that will be a source for change affecting the rest of the world. Innovation Enablers One great point was that [...]
By Mike Anderson This week has been a hot start to the mobile ecosystem battles expected in 2013. Apple has seen its glow begin to dim. Samsung’s earnings shine to record levels because of smartphones. Microsoft hits its numbers even though Surface hasn’t arisen to drive Windows. And Lenovo has made public its interest as [...]
By Mike Anderson The Mobile Ecosystem conflict in 2013 will be characterized by a tumultuous and exciting year. Significant changes are under way as the mobile ecosystem players must confront growing pressures and big questions regarding their future. Apple, Microsoft, Google, RIM and Samsung each face a big question as the year unfolds. Can Apple maintain its [...]
By Jim Lundy Mobile Upgrades is the new evaluation criteria. The Smartphone or Tablet that you buy for your friends and family for Christmas might not be as upgradable as you think. There is a war raging on Android support forums and it goes like this: when will my phone get the latest Android OS [...]
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 [...]
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Content Management, Mobile and Tablets Issues: What are the best practices for managing content across the enterprise? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: On July 16th, 2012, Microsoft announced the preview of Office 2013, Office 365 and all of its flagship Office division products. Event: At a press [...]
By Jim Lundy In the Tablet Wars that are coming, the expectations of users of how a Tablet behaves are very high. Just ask anyone that has used an iPad and then tried to use something else. This blog post is the result of a conversation I had with an IT Leader over the weekend. [...]
By Jim Lundy Nokia’s Chairman Risto Siilasmaa was on Finnish TV on June 28th talking about Nokia and Windows Phone 8. While on that show, he claimed that Nokia has a contingency plan should the next version of Windows Phone not meet expectations. It isn’t a coincidence that Nokia is talking contingencies. They need to have [...]
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 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 [...]
Apple iOS 6: Siri’s Voice Gets Louder To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Mobile Issues: What are the best practices for managing content across the enterprise? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: Apple announced iOS 6, the sixth version of its mobile OS. A key part of the announcement was the expansion of its [...]
By Mike Anderson Mobile Ecosystem There is a war taking place in mobile and the battle ground is the Mobile Ecosystem. Mobile ecosystems are the key to success in mobile. Devices grab the headlines, as Microsoft did this week with Surface and like Apple did in March with the 3rd generation iPad. Behind the tablets and [...]
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 Mike Anderson Google docs has been in the stable of my workplace tools for about a year. Having been one of the hundreds of millions of Microsoft Office users, my startup was characterized by a few fits and starts. While it is simple enough to get basic things like creating a new file done, limitations [...]
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 [...]
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Content Management, Mobile Issue: What are the best practices for managing content across the enterprise? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: On March 28th, Box announced OneCloud for iOS, along with a new Apps Marketplace that it integrates [...]
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 Mike Anderson The Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona is about to begin its third day. Much of the attention for two days has been on the devices. Both smartphones and tablets have been in the limelight of announcements.On the smartphone front, there are a lot of great new features appearing. Super high-resolution cameras – Nokia touts [...]
By Mike Anderson Last year as we were forming Aragon I was a steadfast Windows user. Although we had made the decision early that we would allow user freedom of choice for computing, Jim was all Mac in his home office. Keeping integration simple by choosing the same platform made sense as a startup, but I [...]
By Jim Lundy This week was full of announcements from major HCM players, such as SAP (solidified its Cloud Roadmap based on SuccessFactors) and Oracle (which sought to reassure customers on its pending acquisition of Cloud Talent provider Taleo). In related First Cuts, we predicted the move by Oracle and we also think this will not be [...]
