April 20, 2018
Author: Jim Lundy
April 18, 2018
Cisco Copies Microsoft by Rebranding Spark as Webex Teams
by Jim Lundy At some point recently, Cisco blinked. Cisco Spark, launched only three years ago, is being dumped. Cisco is doubling down on the Webex brand and the Cisco Spark mobile messaging service will be rebranded a
April 12, 2018
Why Would Plantronics Buy Polycom?
by Jim Lundy This blog was updated on August 29th, 2019. Headset maker Plantronics made a major move on March 28th, 2018 when it announced it was buying Polycom for $U.S. 2 billion, the same price that Siris Capita
April 5, 2018
DocuSign Files S-1, Validates the $25 Billion DTM Market
by Jim Lundy DocuSign officially filed its S-1 last week. For Aragon, this action validates everything we have said about the Digital Transaction Management market. When we first wrote about DTM in 2014, many end users
March 27, 2018
Have You Hired a Recruiting Chatbot?
by Jim Lundy The talent wars continue to get more heated as global economies come closer together. HR professionals are taking more responsibility for ensuring hiring success in a competitive world, which means new tool
March 20, 2018
DocuSign’s Secret IPO Filing
by Jim Lundy DocuSign, one of the Silicon Valley Unicorns with a $3 billion valuation, has allegedly filed its S-1 document with the SEC. We were made aware of this several weeks ago and today TechCrunch confirmed thatIBM Launches Watson Workspace Plus, Partners with Zoom
by Jim Lundy On March 13th, 2018, IBM announced the availability of Watson Workspace Plus, its mobile collaboration offering powered by Watson. This update includes new features and a new video meeting capability backed
March 9, 2018
The Rise of WCA and Why CCM Is Dead
by Jim Lundy Workflow and Content Automation (WCA) is a vital asset to the digital transformation of any business, especially those that want to maintain a competitive edge within their market. WCA is taking over CustomHighfive Adds Dolby Voice Room to Its Portfolio
by Jim Lundy Highfive recently announced the addition of the new huddle room offering from Dolby—Dolby Voice Rooms—which now supports both voice and video. The huddle room inclusion will help Highfive compete mor
March 2, 2018
Five9 Revenue Growth Milestone – Cloud at the Center
by Jim Lundy Five9 had their earnings call last week and it was a record quarter. To us, this symbolizes the focus of the company, the flexibility of the offering, and the growing demand for cloud. The 2017 Five9 rev
February 20, 2018
The Digital Workplace DealBook – Alfresco, LogMeIn, Nintex, and SAP
by Jim Lundy We are only in the second month of 2018 and the acquisition fever is here. Many deals have gone down in the last two weeks, and this blog highlights the most noteworthy in the digital workplace landscape.
February 16, 2018
Thoma Bravo Invests Big in Nintex, Eric Johnson to Become Company’s CEO
by Jim Lundy View a PDF of this First Cut. Summary: The Bellevue-based, privately held Workflow and Content Automation provider announced that Thoma Bravo will become the company’s majority investor. The deal is
February 7, 2018
Waymo v. Uber and Technology Theft in Silicon Valley
by Jim Lundy The Waymo v. Uber self-driving technology lawsuit is underway, and front and center is the debate over ownership. The two key actors are Uber Chairman Travis Kalanick, and Anthony Levandowski, a former emp
February 2, 2018
The End of Xerox as an American Icon
by Jim Lundy On January 31, 2018, Xerox announced that it gave up control of its ownership to Fuji Xerox, its long-term partner and occasional nemesis, to prevent activist shareholders from selling the company. Xerox so
January 30, 2018
Avaya Buys Spoken Communications and Dives Into Cloud
by Jim Lundy (Aragon Research) – Yesterday at Avaya ENGAGE®, Avaya’s annual customer conference held this year in New Orleans, Avaya announced that it was acquiring Seattle-based Spoken Communications, a cloud co
January 29, 2018
Driving Sales Success with Tablets and Sales Engagement Platforms
by Jim Lundy (Aragon Research) – In 2017, Apple launched its long awaited iPad Pro 10.5 device, a smaller version of the iPad Pro 12" inch unit it launched in 2016. We reviewed the launch last June in our WWDC recap
January 26, 2018
AI vs. Blockchain: Two Innovative Approaches to DTM
by Jim Lundy (Aragon Research) – Two technology areas have recently been in the news: AI/machine learning and blockchain. Partly due to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin in fintech, blockchain is grabbing the spot
January 15, 2018
Can Blockchain-Based KODAKOne Help Kodak Get Its Groove Back?
by Jim Lundy (Aragon Research) – Kodak's stock went up last week because it announced a new blockchain currency called KODAKCoin. KODAKCoin is part of the company's bigger news: a new Digital Rights Management platf
December 19, 2017
Salesforce myTrailhead Will Challenge Allego and MindTickle
by Jim Lundy (Aragon Research) – There are times when markets become split or more vertically-focused. As I mentioned last week, the learning market is in the midst of a bifurcation. Sales learning and development i
December 11, 2017