September 18, 2025
Author: Betsy Burton
September 17, 2025
Proactive AI Selling Agent Free for Amazon Marketplace
By Betsy Burton Proactive AI Selling Agent Free for Amazon Marketplace September 17, 2025, Amazon announced a major enhancement to its existing Seller Assistant tool at its annual Amazon Accelerate conferen
September 10, 2025
RavenDB Launches Innovative Native DBMS AI Agents
RavenDB Launches Innovative Native DBMS AI Agents By Betsy Burton September 8, 2025, RavenDB announced the launch of its new AI Agent Creator, a feature fully integrated into its multi-model NoSQL
September 5, 2025
Microsoft’s Free Copilot for Federal Gov: Gift or Loss Leader for Future Lock-in?
Microsoft's Free Copilot for Federal Gov: Gift or Loss Leader for Future Lock-in? By Betsy Burton On September 2, 2025, Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced a government-wide agreeme
August 20, 2025
Databricks’ $100B Valuation: Will It Delay or Accelerate IPO?
Databricks' $100B Valuation: Will It Delay or Accelerate a Public Offering? Databricks has confirmed it has signed a term sheet for a Series K funding round. While the specific amount of new capital to be rais
August 13, 2025
Multi-Agent AI Swarms are Here!
By Betsy Burton Multi-Agent AI Swarms Are Here! Manus, an AI startup now headquartered in Singapore, has launched its new "Wide Research" feature. This multi-agent system deploys over 100 general-purpose AI age
January 5, 2021
23-30-Year-Olds Are Not Millennials; Introducing Generation S
Last updated 1-5-21 to reflect the unique challenges and expectations of each distinct generation during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Ken Dulaney, Betsy Burton, Samra AneesWe hear the term 'millennials' in almost ever
May 28, 2020
Pandemic Predicts: Our Survey Results
by Betsy Burton I recently had the distinct pleasure to present a webinar with my colleagues Jim, Ken, and Kalyn on Aragon Research’s top COVID-19 pandemic impact predictions (see Aragon Research’s Coronavirus Pande
May 11, 2020
“Zoom” Is a New Verb
by Betsy Burton In light of people working, learning, playing, and gathering remotely, video conferencing is becoming the new way for people to communicate and collaborate. As a result, I am starting to hear people use
May 4, 2020
Will New Behaviors Emerge Post-Pandemic?
by Betsy Burton I have been thinking a lot about how the coronavirus pandemic may change our work cultures going forward into the future. The circumstances have me thinking about the times I have been in a culturally ne
April 23, 2020
Microsoft and Cisco’s Missed Opportunity
by Betsy Burton I watched in awe as my family members, nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews all navigated Zoom during a family gathering. Most of them had never done web-conferencing or heard of Zoom before fo
Use Leading Performance Metrics to Understand What Might Happen
by Betsy Burton One of the topics that I have heard a lot about in the news as it relates to data about the COVID-19 pandemic is related to different types of data metrics. This is a very common issue in business perfor
April 16, 2020
Your Reputation Is Being Defined During This Crisis
by Betsy Burton Many businesses and public entities spend significant time, energy, and money establishing a brand and reputation. Be it "a provider of quality products and services," "an environmentally sustainable com
April 9, 2020
Aragon’s Microsoft Power Platform SWOT Analysis
by Betsy Burton Over the past 6-8 months, we’ve seen significant evidence of a rise in the market interest for Microsoft Power Platform from both end-users and technology & service providers (TSPs). With Microsoft
April 1, 2020
Business Strategy in the Time of the Coronavirus
by Betsy Burton I have been thinking a lot about what we should be doing to ensure we are investing our time in the right activities during this pandemic. It is very understandable that many businesses, governments, and
March 20, 2020
COVID-19: Free Aragon Inquiries For Small Businesses During Pandemic
by Betsy Burton During this pandemic, it's critical that everyone helps each other. For this reason, we are pleased to offer our services for free to any small businesses or local government agencies (city, county) that n
March 18, 2020
Understanding the Digital Business Platform Globe
by Betsy Burton I’m really excited about the release of the new Aragon Research Globe for Digital Business Platforms. In this 2020 globe, we’ve made a bunch of changes since last year. The digital business platform
March 12, 2020
Reducing Coronavirus Transmission Helps Our Communities
by Betsy Burton I have been speaking with several young and middle-aged people who have said that they aren’t really focused on news and updates of COVID-19, or on changing their habits, because they are “healthy an
March 5, 2020
Aragon Cares: Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands
by Betsy Burton I’m a bit of a do-it-yourself person by nature. If I can make something as good or better than what’s commercially available, I’ll try it. So, when I heard about all the hand sanitizer flying of
February 27, 2020