March 2, 2015
Author: Jim Lundy
February 28, 2015
Google Secures Android with Android for Work
View a PDF of this First Cut. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Mobile Issue: Who are the mobile providers and how will they compete? Summary: On February 25, 2015, Google announced Android for Work, featuring aAndroid for Work: Google Partners with EMM Providers
By Jim Lundy Google changed the game for Android in the Enterprise this week with their announcement of Android for Work. It gives Enterprises more control over users and their apps and content, a much needed change.
February 20, 2015
Team Polycom Event in 4 Words: Execution, Microsoft, Innovation, CEO
By Jim Lundy We attended Polycom's annual Team Polycom partner event last week in Orlando and we were struck with the feeling that things have changed significantly in 12 months at Polycom. Much of the change has to
February 16, 2015
Email Wars: Amazon, Google, IBM, & Microsoft Battle It Out in Cloud
By Jim Lundy Whoever said email is dead has greatly exaggerated its demise. In the social networking era, email has been depicted as the epitome of everything that's wrong with collaboration and workplace productivity.
February 13, 2015
Kaybus and the Race to Automate Knowledge
By Jim Lundy Knowledge management is one of the most hotly-debated topics of the modern era and until now, most efforts have used a set of collaboration, learning, and content management band-aids to try to deliver know
February 11, 2015
Vector Capital Acquires Saba Software; Takes It Private
View a PDF of this First Cut. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Learning and Talent Management Issue: Who are the learning and talent management providers and how will they evolve? Summary: On February 9, 2015,
February 10, 2015
CMS Wars: Ektron and Episerver Merge, Akumina and Percussion Emerge
By Jim Lundy CMS wars are back. The need to have a great website and a great digital experience is fueling a new round of mergers and acquisitions in web content management, also referred to as CMS. In fact, a lot
February 6, 2015
The Unstoppable Rise Of Video Learning
https://vimeo.com/118927379 The rise of Video Learning is an unstoppable force. Use cases for Video Learning are emerging in all industries. Video is becoming the best medium for capturing and transferring kno
February 3, 2015
Jive Workstyle Apps-Disruption of Mobile Collaboration Space
By Jim Lundy The Jive Workstyle apps announcement denotes a growing trend of ever-increasing mobile collaboration apps. These apps are coming from startups as we witness the subsequent reaction of counter apps from tSuper Bowl 49 Lessons: Preparing the Next Generation
By Jim Lundy Super Bowls come and go, and many don't leave lasting memories. Super Bowl 49, the one in which the New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks, is not one many will soon forget. The reason was an unlike
January 30, 2015
Focus on Customers and Employees for 2015 and Beyond
By Jim Lundy As we embark on 2015, I reflect back on what an interesting year 2014 was. There was a big buzz around customer and employee engagement. We saw businesses everywhere start getting on board with predictiv
January 29, 2015
ConnectED 2015: IBM Goes Freemium with Verse
By Jim Lundy At the IBM ConnectED event in Orlando, FL this week, IBM announced they will offer a freemium model of Verse before the end of Q1. It will have certain limitations around file sharing and storage. While
January 28, 2015
Two Factor Authentication: A Must-Have for Enterprises
By Jim Lundy Two Factor Authentication is a term you will hear a lot more about in 2015. Microsoft made some news last week with its upcoming rollout of Windows 10. The thing that caught our attention was not Univ
January 19, 2015
Movers and Shakers in Marketing, 2015
By Jim Lundy It is a question I get asked often: Who are the movers and shakers in marketing—the ones who make a difference? In 2015, Aragon Research has identified new movers and shakers in marketing and they exten
January 16, 2015
Facebook and the Great Google Hack of 2010
By Jim Lundy While everyone is talking about the recent hack of Sony, it wasn't that long ago (late 2009, early 2010) that Google got hacked badly by the Chinese. Facebook Messenger was used in that attack. It was pa
November 21, 2014
Microsoft Lync Gets Mainstream Branding As Skype for Business
View a PDF of this First Cut. Author: David Mario Smith Topic: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Summary: Renaming Lync “Skype for Business” puts a fCisco Collaboration Summit in 3 Words: Conferencing, Cloud, & Squared
By Jim Lundy We attended the Cisco Collaboration Summit (#CSummit) in Los Angeles this week—Cisco's annual gathering of customers, partners, and analysts—to discuss what Cisco is doing in collaboration. The main
November 13, 2014
Fuze Entry Into the Video Conferencing Room Signals a New Price War
View a PDF of this First Cut. Author: David Mario Smith Topic: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Summary: The Fuze for Rooms announcement puts pressure on
November 5, 2014