October 12, 2020
Author: Adam Pease
October 6, 2020
Nintex Buys Archrival K2 as Process Automation Market Begins Consolidation Phase
by Jim Lundy View a PDF of this First Cut. Summary: Nintex announced that the company has reached an agreement to buy K2 Software, Inc., which provides process automation solutions. The combined entity will make Nint
October 5, 2020
Seismic Takes Content Interactive and Prepares for IPO
by Jim LundySeismic announced a new F round of funding of $92M this week and also has made some major changes to its platform with the addition of what it is calling Interactive Content. This blog discusses the recent
September 29, 2020
Microsoft Ignite 2020 Summarized in Four Words: Power, Teams, AI, and Syntex
by Jim Lundy Microsoft Ignite 2020, while virtual, did not disappoint. With a focused no-nonsense delivery, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered on the promise of new technology. While it is true that there’s more
September 24, 2020
The Power of Focusing on Your Future-State, First and Foremost
by Betsy Burton For years I've been advising enterprise architects to focus on their future-state first and foremost, and then to use this future-state focus to guide and inform how they evolve their current-state.
Microsoft, Cisco, Zoom, and the Return of Breakout Rooms
by Jim Lundy This week at Microsoft Ignite, AVP Jeff Teper announced the addition of breakout rooms to Microsoft Teams. This follows other moves by Zoom and Cisco to add these capabilities as well. This blog talks
September 23, 2020
Microsoft Dives into CPaaS with Launch of Azure Communication Service
by Jim Lundy Yesterday at eight, Microsoft announce its new Azure Communication Service (ACS), which is a communications platform as a service (CPaaS) offering built on its Azure cloud. While CPaaS vendors such as Tw
September 16, 2020
Oracle/TikTok Partnership: More Politics than Strategy
by Betsy Burton This week, Oracle confirmed that it had reached an agreement with ByteDance to become the company’s “trusted technology provider” for TikTok. This move happened as a result of the US administ
September 15, 2020
Nvidia Buys ARM—The End of the Intel Era
by Jim Lundy Yesterday, Nvidia announced its intent to purchase ARM from SoftBank for the price of $40 billion. ARM has emerged to become one of the dominant chip architectures of this century. Last year alone, over
September 11, 2020
Palantir IPO: Is Palantir the Next Big Digital Business Platform?
by Betsy Burton This week, Palantir held its investor day sessions in preparation for the company’s upcoming IPO. Palantir’s IPO has been highly anticipated, and there are a number of financial analysts focused o
September 2, 2020
Living Through a Disaster: Are You and Your Employees Prepared?
by Betsy Burton Sitting on my front porch at 2:30 AM, August 19, 2020, I could see the glow from the fire getting brighter. We had watched the wildfire coming down the coast just south of San Francisco earlier that d
September 1, 2020
Zoom Revenue Surges Due to Remote Work and Remote Learning
by Jim Lundy Zoom continues to out-maneuver competitors in an era of remote work. Yesterday, Zoom reported a huge increase in quarterly revenue for its July quarter of $663.5 million. This blog talks about Zoom’s g
August 25, 2020
Digital Transaction Management for Insurance: AssureSign Expands Its Use Cases
by Jim Lundy and Adam Pease On August 3, Sapiens International Corporation announced a partnership with digital transaction management provider AssureSign to integrate its electronic signature capabilities into the S
August 13, 2020
What Trends Does the Digital Business Technology Arc Highlight?
by Betsy BurtonI am very pleased to share with you all that Aragon Research has just released the inaugural version of the Digital Business Technology Arc. This research features 37 technology profiles that are split
August 6, 2020
Do You Need Microsoft Advanced Communications Licenses for Large Meetings?
by Jim Lundy The short answer is an emphatic YES. This week, Microsoft announced an additional service for Microsoft Teams that focuses on large meetings and recordings. The new service is called Advanced Communicati
August 5, 2020
Increased Remote Work Means You Must Define Your Information Privacy Strategy
by Betsy Burton Defining a privacy strategy is important now more than ever before. I have been having a lot of conversations with vendors, end-users, and consumers about data privacy and ethics. Many are feeling the
August 4, 2020
Alfresco Is for Sale: What We Know
by Jim Lundy When private equity firms invest in a software company, sometimes they hold it for a long time, and sometimes they don't. In this case, Thomas H. Lee has decided to put its enterprise content management
August 3, 2020
Should Microsoft Buy TikTok? The Good, Bad, and Ugly
by Jim Lundy The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that Microsoft is in talks to buy ByteDance’s subsidiary TikTok. There are many reasons for Microsoft to buy TikTok and there are many reasons why they
July 27, 2020
Do Something Special for Your Team Today
by Betsy BurtonI was so pleasantly surprised to receive a care package from Aragon Research yesterday.You see, Aragon Research is holding a virtual off-site next week, and the care package included all the things I ne
July 23, 2020