July 27, 2021
Author: Adam Pease
Introducing tPaaS Market: Open Call for Aragon Globe Submissions
by Betsy Burton For the past few months, we at Aragon Research have been talking and writing about a new emerging market that is an evolution of iPaaS. Aragon Research has identified the tPaaS market—Transformation Pl
July 23, 2021
Zoom Buys Five9 for $14.7 Billion and Sets the Stage for the Consolidation of UC&C and Contact Center
by Jim Lundy View a PDF of this First Cut. Summary: Zoom announced an agreement to acquire Five9 in an all stock $14.7 billion dollar deal this week. With a 25X revenue multiple, the deal signifies the beginning o
June 29, 2021
Computer Vision at the Grocery Store: Amazon Versus Trigo
by Adam Pease This last week, new developments were afoot in the world of computer vision for retail. Amazon, a major provider, and Trigo, a new market entrant, both revealed news about their seamless checkout solutions
The Importance of Zero Trust for Enterprise IoT Deployments
by Ken Dulaney Cisco estimates that there will be 10.6 billion IoT connections growing to 14.7 billion by 2023. While this number reflects both consumer and enterprise, we must recognize that consumer technology constan
June 23, 2021
Embrace CitDev to Increase Security, Innovation, and Peace
by Betsy Burton I recently spoke with an IT leader about the use of SaaS and cloud-based applications. During the conversation, he spoke about having to deal with “shadow IT,” also sometimes referred to as “rogue
Tesla and the Push for Vision in Self-Driving Cars
by Adam Pease Tesla's new supercomputer, "Dojo," has been unveiled at CVPR 2021, the international conference for computer vision. Dojo clocks in at 1.8 exaflops of performance, making it one of the best in the world.
June 18, 2021
A Computer Vision Unicorn: Tractable Disrupts the Insurance Industry
by Adam Pease This week on June 17th, the UK-based computer vision company Tractable announced that it had secured $60M in a series D funding round led by Insight Partners and Georgian. Tractable offers a computer visio
Is It Time to Refresh Your MacBooks?
by Jim Lundy Apple just had its annual worldwide developer conference and there were lots of hints about the future of macOS and the future of Apple Silicon. To date, the only processor that has been released is the M1
Skillsoft Goes Public: Three Things to Know
by Jim Lundy Skillsoft went public this week, and while it still has the same name there’s a little bit more to the story than just going public. This blog examines three things about the new Skillsoft that many ove
June 16, 2021
USPS Teams up with NVIDIA for Computer Vision
by Adam Pease This month the US Postal Service (USPS) made public news that it would be incorporating computer vision into 195 of its mail processing centers. The announcement boasted that these new AI systems would be
June 9, 2021
The Emerging tPaaS Market: Watch This Space
by Betsy Burton Yesterday, I was pleased to be able to participate in Aragon Research’s June 2021 Transform Tour. It was a very exciting and dynamic event. The first presentation featured two of my colleagues Jim Lun
IBM Watson Health: The Future of Surgery with Robots
by Adam Pease Recently, IBM Watson Health has released more information about its partnership with Merge Healthcare, which aims to leverage AI-based platforms to transform medical processes. At the core of this solution
June 8, 2021
Is Our Food Supply at Risk? The Escalation of Ransomware as a Service
by Craig Kennedy Last weekend JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company based in Brazil, became the latest high-profile victim of a ransomware attack as its facilities in the US, Canada, and Australia came unde
June 4, 2021
Adobe Prepares for AI Content Automation
by Adam Pease This week Adobe pushed further into the computer vision market with its new research on directional generative adversarial networks (DGANS). While the name may sound confusing, these AI systems are closely
June 2, 2021
Even Good AI Can’t Cover For Bad Management Decisions
by Betsy Burton This week, the online insurance company, Lemonade Inc., received significant backlash after it released a series of tweets about its AI capabilities. While the tweets have officially been deleted they can
Amazon’s Invasion of Your Home Internet—What Could Go Wrong?
by Jim Lundy Amazon Sidewalk is coming this month to your Echo and Ring devices and it’s an automatic invasion of your home internet that you need to be aware of. To get to the bottom line right away, we recommend opt
Considerations for Smart City IoT Deployment
by Ken Dulaney IoT has always been a singular concept for many, but those simple three letters can mislead about the true difficulty involved in deploying and managing the technologies under that umbrella term. IoT is a
May 31, 2021
Defi and Smart Contracts: DFINITY and Ethereum
by Adam Pease Recently, blockchain-based cloud computing provider DFINITY listed its cryptocurrency, ICP, on the Coinbase general exchange. ICP is of interest not just to investors and crypto traders, but to the enterpr