June 14, 2016
Author: Jim Lundy
June 8, 2016
Sales Engagement Platforms – What and Why
By Jim Lundy Sales Engagement Platforms are here. We have been tracking the trends in sales and marketing for years, going all the way back to 2008, when I went to Dreamforce, in part because many at Gartner did not belMicrosoft Planner to Challenge Asana, Wrike, and Bolste
By Jim Lundy Microsoft has always been quick to spot winners and two Aragon Hot Vendors in Structured Collaboration, Asana and Wrike, are in Microsoft's gunsights. The reason is simple: Microsoft wants to own the Offi
May 24, 2016
EMC World Summarized in Three Words: Dell, Cloud, LEAP
By Jim Lundy I attended EMC World in Las Vegas the first week of May. It marked a turning point for EMC - as the merger approval with Dell is on the horizon. What struck us about the event was the amount of innovation t
May 18, 2016
Google Allo – a Predictive Chat App
By Jim Lundy Never say never. Google IO16 is happening today and tomorrow in Mountain View, and Aragon Research will be there for some of the deep dive sessions. That said, the news is already out about Allo and Duo
May 9, 2016
SharePoint 2016 Goes Mobile, Targets Box and Google
By Jim Lundy Microsoft held a Future of SharePoint event last week to share its current deliverables and future roadmap for SharePoint. It also announced that it would offer free migration services to customers who want
April 29, 2016
Adobe EchoSign Rebrands as Adobe Sign, Preps for DTM War with DocuSign
By Jim Lundy - EchoSign and Adobe eSign Services are no more. This week, Adobe announced a series of updates and enhancements for its Digital Transaction Management (DTM) Platform, Adobe Document Cloud, and one of tho
April 26, 2016
DocuSign Transaction Rooms Signify a Turning Point in DTM
By Jim Lundy We were at DocuSign Momentum three weeks ago and it was my fourth time attending. A lot has changed since I first attended the event, including the rise of a category we identified two years ago called D
April 7, 2016
Chat Bots Are the Future of Work
By Jim Lundy The future is here and it is called chat bots. At least that is the geek term being used by VCs in Silicon Valley. Our term is mobile collaboration-based digital assistants, but let's not quibble over na
March 31, 2016
Gartner Veteran Jim Sinur Joins Aragon As Research Fellow
By Jim Lundy True thought leadership is hard to come by. Today, we issued a press release and announced that Gartner veteran Jim Sinur is joining Aragon as our first Aragon Fellow. Jim is a well-known thought leader,
March 30, 2016
Samepage Adds Mobile Messaging, Shifts to Enterprise
By Jim Lundy The market for Mobile Collaboration is heating up—it's the new focal point of Collaboration. Many technology providers are recognizing this, including Samepage, a 2015 Aragon Research Hot Vendor. Thi
March 23, 2016
Apple Bolsters Lineup iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7
By Jim Lundy Apple's special event was held on Monday at its Cupertino location. The key takeaway from the event is that it is broadening its iPhone line with a lower-cost model and is shifting to a higher-end iPad
March 15, 2016
Enterprise Connect in Four Words: UCC, Video, Mobile, and Innovation
By Jim Lundy Last week I was at Enterprise Connect—#EC16—in Orlando. A solid event, it has become one of the announcement vehicles for the industry. This year, many of the announcements centered on Unified Communic
March 7, 2016
UC Is Dead; UCC Is the Future
By Jim Lundy A few years back when I was still leading the Collaboration team at Gartner, we worked with the UC team and came up with a new term: Unified Communications and Collaboration a.k.a. UCC. That was in 2009 and
February 29, 2016
IBM InterConnect in Four Words: Cloud, IoT, Swift, & Watson
By Jim Lundy We attended IBM's annual InterConnect Customer Event in Las Vegas this week. The event had over 25,000 attendees and twelve different announcements in a number of Cloud related product areas. One of the mo
February 15, 2016
Salesforce Spring ’16: Lightning, Pricing, IoT, and John Hernandez
By Jim Lundy Salesforce held a live event on February 2nd, 2016 to celebrate the launch of its spring 2016 release that is the full instantiation of its new user interface it calls Lightning. Lightning was introduc
February 1, 2016
Unify Analyst Summit: The Future Is Circuit Collaboration PaaS
We attended the Unify Analyst Summit in Bermuda, January 19-22, 2016, and got a chance to spend time with the leadership team. With the Atos acquisition of Unify now closed, the focus is execution on the core strategy whic
January 28, 2016
NFL and Surface Pro vs. United Airlines and iPad
By Jim Lundy Anyone watching the NFL championship games over the weekend could not miss the commentary by the sportscasters about the Surface Pros and the New England Patriots. The comment during the Patriot-Broncos
January 27, 2016
RealPresence Clariti – Polycom’s Move to Software and Services
At the TEAM Polycom event held in Nashville, TN, January 12-14, Polycom unveiled its RealPresence Clariti cloud collaboration platform and its cloud bursting capabilities. Essentially, with Clariti, Polycom has the maki
January 19, 2016