August 30, 2016
Author: Jim Lundy
August 24, 2016
Cisco Gets Smaller – Begins Shift to Software and IOT
By Jim Lundy Cisco announced its second largest round of staff cuts - over 5,500 people on August 17th, the day it announced its quarterly earnings. It also announced a $700 Million Charge against earnings. While Cisc
August 15, 2016
New MacBook Pro: Did Intel Chips Delay the Launch?
By Jim Lundy One of the things I hear about from people all over Silicon Valley is, "I'm ready for a new MacBook." Apple users are very sophisticated and at the recent Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), man
July 27, 2016
LogMeIn Acquires Citrix GoToMeeting Division for $1.8 Billion
by Jim Lundy This First Cut was last updated on August 14th, 2019. Summary: LogMeIn and Citrix jointly announced that LogMeIn would acquire the Citrix GoToMeeting division for U.S. $1.8 billion. Event: On July 26th,
July 12, 2016
Cisco and IBM Join Forces to Offer Intelligent Workplace of the Future
By Jim Lundy On June 30th, Cisco and IBM announced a new partnership that combines both of their Collaboration offerings into what Aragon is referring to as an Intelligent Workplace Platform, powered by IBM Watson. Thi
July 7, 2016
GuideSpark: The Video Platform You Haven’t Met Yet
By Jim Lundy GuideSpark is known for Employee Communications and Engagement via its cool videos that often show up during employee on-boarding or during benefits selection season. Our impression of what GuideSpark is r
July 1, 2016
Fireside Chat with Peter Toth
A brief introduction to Aragon Research's Summer 2016 intern, Peter Toth.
June 23, 2016
Sales Success Begins with Video and Sales Engagement Platforms
By Jim Lundy The race to win in sales starts with Sales Engagement Platforms, a category that Aragon recently unveiled. When it comes to content, video continues to be the number one form of content that has the high
June 16, 2016
My First Day as an Intern
By Peter Toth When I walked into the office for my first time this morning, I was greeted with a warm smile and a handshake. After sitting in on a few of Jim Lundy’s phone conferences, I knew that this positi
June 14, 2016
Microsoft Buys LinkedIn – Targets Facebook and Salesforce
by Jim Lundy Microsoft announced its $26.2 Billion plan to acquire LinkedIn yesterday. This blog focuses on Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn and its need to focus on Facebook and Salesforce. Microsoft's Acquisiti
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