January 8, 2016
Author: Jim Lundy
December 24, 2015
The 2015 Aragon Research Innovation Awards Recap
By Jim Lundy When you watch markets, you get briefed on and evaluate lots of products and services from startups and established technology providers. At our recent 5th annual Aragon Research Holiday Party, we presen
December 10, 2015
Cisco Spark Poised to Compete with Microsoft Skype for Business
By Jim Lundy Cisco unveiled what it has been working on for the last several years—the Cisco Spark platform, which is designed to blend messaging, meetings, and calls into one integrated offering that works seamlessly
December 1, 2015
Microsoft Pricing Surge for Office 365 E5
By Jim Lundy Microsoft has seen what Salesforce has done with pricing - and realized it needs to go higher. On November 30th, Microsoft announced pricing for its newest E5 SKU for Office 365, and while many will call
November 5, 2015
Dropbox Pushes for a Seat at the Enterprise Table
By Jim Lundy Dropbox is pushing hard to be taken more seriously with enterprises and it is having success. At its first customer event being held this week in San Francisco, it announced enhanced capabilities for its Dr
November 4, 2015
IBM Insight 2015 – A Hint of Something New
Jim Lundy video blogs on his experience from IBM's Data and Analytics Conference, IBM Insight 2015. Get a glimpse inside the new IBM:
October 8, 2015
Polycom Has an Extreme Makeover with Wave of New Products
By Jim Lundy I attended Polycom’s announcement this week in New York City at the Polycom facilities where they announced a wave of new products that will transform the workplace. These products and services are a reHCM Platforms: IBM Steps on the Gas
By Jim Lundy We attended IBM’s Kenexa Smarter Workforce Summit in Orlando this week and it was a solid event with great buzz. IBM provided a progress report on its products and services and also on their shift to thei
September 24, 2015
AirWatch Connect Summarized in Three Words: Growth, Partners, Security
By Jim Lundy We attended AirWatch's fourth annual AirWatch Connect customer event in Atlanta this week. There are a number of takeaways from the event, including the time that VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger spent on stage
September 17, 2015
Developing a Collaboration Strategy: Takeaways from Executive Insights
As we wrap up Executive Insights at IT/Dev Connections at the Aria in Las Vegas, there are some key learnings and takeaways I want to share from the sessions on collaboration. During the sessions and workshops, we reallClearSlide and Salesforce Go Predictive
By Jim Lundy There were two conferences this week and both of them focused on predictive. At IT/Dev Connections and Executive Insights, predictive was one of the major themes. At Dreamforce, the battle cry has also b
September 4, 2015
The Race to Mobile Collaboration and Persistent Spaces
By Jim Lundy As I finalize our Tech Spectrum for Mobile Collaboration report, I've been thinking about the underlying theme of persistence and persistent spaces in collaborative interactions. While we move fromBlackberry Buys Good Technology: EMM Consolidation Continues
By Jim Lundy Blackberry announced today that it is buying Good Technology for $425 million in cash. Blackberry and Good Technology have never been close friends, having battled constantly in the market. This deal al
September 3, 2015
Polycom Makeover Continues with New Products and Leadership
By Jim Lundy David Smith and I attended Polycom's Industry Analyst PACE meeting this week and we left with a feeling that the extreme makeover that Peter Leav described earlier this year is well underway. It is always i
August 28, 2015
Sales Cloud Makeover Will Make Sales Teams More Productive
By Jim Lundy Salesforce announced an extreme makeover for its sales cloud CRM platform earlier this week and it is one of the first redesigns of its flagship service in years. It is clear to us that this has been in pla
August 17, 2015
Google Alphabet: I Stands for Innovation
By Jim Lundy Google announced a major restructuring this week when it folded Google into a new parent company called Alphabet, which can be found at the domain name abc.xyz. There has been a lot of mediIntern Update: Videos and Getting to Know Our Drone, AR1
By Jack Buehler It’s been pretty busy here for the last few weeks. After the first week of onboarding, Jim had us jump straight to work. I started working on some of the Hot Vendor reports and Evan started to work on
August 12, 2015
Peoplefluent Video-Based HCM Platform Powers Record Results
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Authors: Jim Lundy, David Mario Smith Topic: Talent Management and Learning Issue: Who are the Talent Management and Learning providers and how will they evolve?
July 24, 2015
Microsoft Retrenches in Mobile: Enterprises Can’t Wait
By Jim Lundy Two weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the layoff of 7600 employees in the Microsoft Phone Division so that Microsoft could focus on ‘near term opportunities.’ I would note that the ink
July 22, 2015