Innovation Incubating in Emerging Economies

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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 [...]

Will You Succeed or Fail with Social? It depends.

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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 [...]

Yammer World Tour Summarized in Three Words: Social, Enterprise, Partners

By Jim Lundy Yammer concluded its world tour in San Francisco yesterday. There was a lot that went on at the event, particularly with all of the conversations and stories their customers were telling. This blog is about what we saw at the event and how things are changing for Yammer in the Social and [...]

BYOD, Mobile & Cloud – An Afternoon With UT Dallas

By Mike Anderson Yesterday was Friday the 13th, and I had the good fortune to spend the afternoon with Dr. Michael Savoie of UT Dallas. Michael is Director of the Center for Information Technology and Management in the School of Management. The “An Afternoon With …” program provides a two-hour forum to address prominent IT topics. [...]

Social Network Analysis Just Got Better with Saba DNA

To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Social Software Issue:  How will social software technologies evolve? Summary: Saba announced a robust social network analysis tool that works as part of its Saba People Cloud social platform. Event: At its Saba Global Summit user group event in Miami, Saba announced its Dynamic [...]

Saba Summit in Three Words: Social, Talent, HD Video

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By Jim Lundy Saba held its annual customer user group meeting this week in Miami Beach, Florida and there are three words to summarize what we saw: Social, Talent and HD Video. There were a number of announcements on product introductions. This Blog is about the event and what we saw. We will also be [...]

Cisco focuses on Collaboration

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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 [...]

Summarizing Lotusphere 2012 in Three Words: Social, Mobile, Watson

By Jim Lundy It seems that one of the trends over the last five months is that the major tech titans are honing their messaging and upping the quality of their events. That was certainly true this year at IBM’s Lotusphere and Connect 2012. This blog reviews summarizes the event and some of what we [...]

Telligent Buys Leverage To Speed Its Cloud And Mobile Future

To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Mike Anderson Topics: Social Software Issue:  How will Social Software technologies evolve?  Summary: Telligent acquired Leverage Software, and has accelerated the needed cloud and mobile efforts for its social software products. Event: Telligent announced on December 19th that it has acquired competing social software company Leverage [...]

Social is the New KM

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By Jim Lundy People are getting Social Media, Social Networking, Learning and Knowledge Management (KM) mixed up thanks to a few misleading blog posts by two of my former colleagues at Gartner. Or are they? If you read the responses at HBR, you will see that people are calling them on it. To be fair, Jeff Mann does [...]

Talent and HCM Part II: Saba Partners with Workday

  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 October 25th, Saba announced that it was entering into a partnership with HCM and Talent Suite provider Workday, which focuses on a cloud integration between their two product suites. Event: [...]

Talent and HCM Part I: Cornerstone OnDemand Partners with Workday

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 October 24th, Cornerstone announced that it was entering into a partnership with Workday that focuses on a cloud-to-cloud integration between Cornerstone OnDemand’s Learning Cloud and Workday HCM. Event: Cornerstone announced [...]

SuccessFactors Jams with its Learning Customers, Expands Cloud Focus

To view a PDF of this Aragon Research First Cut, click here. Summary:  On October 17th, SuccessFactors held its Insights Customer and Analyst Event in San Diego, where it unveiled Jam, its social collaboration and learning platform. Event: Event: At SuccessFactors’ learning focused user conference, it unveiled its updated Social platform called Jam and promised [...]