December 31, 2012
Author: Jim Lundy
December 28, 2012
Hot Vendor 2013 Nominations
By Jim Lundy Is your firm or a firm you know a Hot Vendor? We are always on the hunt for emerging vendors in a number of categories. Our Hot Vendors for 2012 included 18 vendors across 4 categories. Of those, th
December 23, 2012
Mobile Upgrades – Apple iOS and Microsoft Windows Phone Trump Android
By Jim Lundy Mobile Upgrades is the new evaluation criteria. The Smartphone or Tablet that you buy for your friends and family for Christmas might not be as upgradable as you think. There is a war raging on Android supp
December 21, 2012
Oracle/Eloqua Deal Will Fuel a Bidding War for Marketo
By Jim Lundy This blog post is about the rise of the marketing suite because what has been missing all along has been marketing automation. In one step, what Oracle did in buying Eloqua is to validate the growing imp
December 19, 2012
Content is the next Mobile Management Battleground
By Mike Anderson The mobility movement has taken root in the enterprise, and is shifting gears from control to empowerment. Enterprise mobile strategies increasingly aim at transformational change, and demand new appro
December 18, 2012
Lynda.com poised to Shake-up Learning Content Market
By Jim Lundy Lynda.com is a name to remember in Learning Content and this is a short post about my visit with them. For those who have spent anytime in learning and development, you know that quality learning content is
December 17, 2012
Will You Succeed or Fail with Social? It Depends.
By Jim Lundy Will you succeed or fail with social? The tagline in the title, it depends, is there because for all the hype that social receives, many enterprises expect they will succeed with social no matter what. T
December 11, 2012
Aragon Research Globe for Enterprise Mobile Management Nears Completion
By Mike Anderson The mobilizing of enterprises continues at an incredible pace. Initial attention has been on control and security for the tremendous influx of varied devices, and mobile device management (MDM) has matuZenPayroll Could Challenge Paychex and ADP
By Jim Lundy ZenPayroll is just starting and already they are getting a buzz from Twitter. It started with an innocent Retweet of a Techcrunch article. It was picked up by others and then questions were raised about wBuilding the Aragon Research Globe for Real-time Collaboration
By Jim Lundy The year was 2004 and it was then that it became clear how pervasive Web Conferencing was becoming. That was the year that Lou Latham and I authored the very first Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing. Of co
December 10, 2012
Okta Gets Ready to Scale, Adds Kara Wilson as CMO
By Jim Lundy Fresh off a new funding round of over $25 Million, Cloud Identity Management provider Okta looks like it is getting ready to catch the transition of enterprises to Cloud Apps by offering an easy to implemen
December 7, 2012
Bill Clark leaves Gartner for SAP: A Farewell but not Goodbye Part II
By Jim Lundy At about the same time I wrote the post about Jim Hollincheck leaving Gartner and joining Workday, another Gartner Thought Leader Bill Clark was also doing the same thing, but instead he decided to apply hi
November 28, 2012
RIM Races toward Revival in the face of Rejections
By Mike Anderson RIM has its future bet on the new BlackBerry 10 OS and BlackBerry 10 devices. The reviews of early prototypes and beta versions of the OS have been positive. Developers have been courted in droves, andPolycom Takes Bold Steps to Transform the Video Era
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Authors: Mike Anderson, Jim Lundy Topic: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Summary: On Monday October 8th, 20
November 27, 2012
SharePoint Conference in Three Words: Yammer, Upgrade, Store
By Jim Lundy Microsoft held its annual SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas on October 13-18, 2012 and it was memorable in a number of ways, not the least of which was the intensity of the participants. We will be disc
November 20, 2012
iPad Mini is just the Beginning of the Tablet Explosion
By Jim Lundy It was just a year ago and the only serious Tablet on the market was the iPad 2. Apple sold 15.43 million iPad 2s in the fourth quarter of 2011. Jump ahead to the holiday season for 2012 and the iPad Mini
November 13, 2012
SharePoint 2013 and Yammer at SPC12
By Jim Lundy At a session here at the SharePoint 2012 Conference (#SPC12), Yammer and Microsoft clarified the direction they are taking for where enterprises should look for deploying Social Networking. Given the major
November 8, 2012
Building the Aragon Research Globe for Learning
By Jim Lundy For many of you that I've worked with over the years, you know that for nearly the entire time I was at Gartner, Corporate Learning was one of the topics I covered (aka, LMS, LCMS Virtual Classroom, Learnin
November 5, 2012
The MacBook that went to Work
By Jim Lundy For most of my working career, I was a card carrying member of the Device you got from IT and for most of that time, it was a Windows Laptop. That all changed in 2008, when we moved from Upstate New York ba
November 2, 2012