SharePoint Conference Summarized in Three Words: Yammer, Upgrade, Store

SharePoint

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 [...]

Office 2013 Preview Summarized in Three Words: Tablet, Windows 8, SharePoint

Office 2013

By Jim Lundy Microsoft unveiled a preview of its latest versions of Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365 at a Press Conference in San Francisco on Monday, July 16th, 2012. We just published an Aragon Research First Cut on it titled: Microsoft Revamps Office for the Cloud and Tablet Era. This Blog post is summarizes [...]

Yammer sold to Microsoft for $1.2 Billion in Cash

Yammer

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 [...]

Spigit’s FaceOff Makes Crowdsourcing of Ideas Easy

To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Social Software Issue:  How will Social Software technologies evolve?  Summary: Spigit is launching a new ideation application called FaceOff that uses crowdsourcing and some clever gamification and UI work to attract users. Event: At E2.0 on November 15th and at subsequent events over [...]

Yammer Takes Activity Streams to the Next Level

  To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Social Software Issues: How will Social Software technologies evolve? Who are the Social Software providers and how will they navigate a crowded market? Summary: On November 9th, Yammer announced new Wiki and Content support for its flagship enterprise social networking platform [...]

Nokia and Microsoft: Partnership Bears First Fruit in Mobile Ecosystem Battle

  To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Mike Anderson Topics: Mobile Issue: What are the trends impacting mobile computing? Summary: On October 26th at its Nokia World 2011 event in London, Nokia announced the Lumia 800 and 710, its first smartphones based on Windows Phone 7. Event: Nokia announced the Lumia [...]

Box Focuses on the Enterprise

To view a PDF of this Aragon Research First Cut, click here. Summary:  On September 27th, Box held its first Customer event and demonstrated that it is serious about the enterprise. Event: Box held its first customer event, BoxWorks, in San Francisco. It unveiled a number of partners it works with to help it focus [...]