March 5, 2012
Author: Jim Lundy
February 29, 2012
iPad 3 versus Windows 8: Speed and Agility
By Jim Lundy iPad 3 Frenzy The announcement of the iPad 3 is only six days away and at the same time, we are now officially in the era of the Windows 8 Preview. Both the iPad 3 and Windows 8 are very popular search t
February 28, 2012
Mobile World Congress: Google, Microsoft, and Mobile Ecosystems
By Mike Anderson The Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona is about to begin its third day. Much of the attention for two days has been on the devices. Both smartphones and tablets have been in the limelight of
February 26, 2012
BYOD: My Journey From Windows To Mac
By Mike Anderson Last year as we were forming Aragon I was a steadfast Windows user. Although we had made the decision early that we would allow user freedom of choice for computing, Jim was all Mac in his home offic
February 25, 2012
HCM -Talent Go Cloud, Windows 8 and iPad 3
By Jim Lundy This week was full of announcements from major HCM players, such as SAP (solidified its Cloud Roadmap based on SuccessFactors) and Oracle (which sought to reassure customers on its pending acquisition of
February 20, 2012
Talent and HCM Part III: Kenexa Buys Learning Provider Outstart
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Knowledge Issue: How will enterprises acquire and distribute knowledge? Summary: On February 6th, Kenexa announced that it was buying Lear
February 17, 2012
Voice Assistants will change the way you work
By Jim Lundy Last night, as myself and our VP of Sales Don Kibler were preparing for an evening meal, we were using mobile apps to find a decent restaurant. We fiddled with the apps for ten minutes looking for decent pl
February 14, 2012
Learning Content – Shifting to Advanced Simulations and Gaming
By Jim Lundy I gave a talk recently to some major enterprises who do Learning Content development. The discussion was around the shift from static learning content to an evolution of more advanced simulations and eventu
February 9, 2012
HCM and Talent Merger Wars Claim More Victims
By Jim Lundy With the announcement today that Oracle is in the process of buying Taleo less than 60 days after SAP announced it was buying SuccessFactors, the race is on to offer the most complete talent/HCM suite. T
February 6, 2012
How Apple Ushered in a New Era of Computing
By Jim Lundy A new era of computing is upon us. It involves touch and voice, simplicity and apps that let people do amazing things. It is one in which the operating system stays in the background and doesn't get in the
February 3, 2012
Countdown to the First Aragon Globe on Enterprise Social Software
The first Aragon Research Globe Report is underway and Enterprise Social Software is the market we are evaluating. We will be evaluating over 25 providers of Enterprise Social Software. There are vendors that you know and
February 2, 2012
Cisco focuses on Collaboration
Editors Note: This Blog Post was originally published on November 18th, 2011. By Jim Lundy I've covered Cisco for years and this week attended their Collaboration Analyst and Partner Summit in Miami. We published anYour Life, For Sale on Facebook
Editors Note, This Blog post was originally posted on Sept 22, 2011 By Jim Lundy If 2011 was the year of the Like button for Facebook, 2012 could be called the return of the app. Today at their annual Developer Conf
January 31, 2012
Changing of the Guard at OpenText
By Jim Lundy There isn't much coverage in the press about OpenText as we wrap up the first month of 2012, but there is change afoot in the executive ranks there. OpenText is one of the largest remaining Enterprise Conte
January 30, 2012
CIOs: Buy a Private App Store for Mobile
By Jim Lundy In conversations we have been having with end-user clients lately, one of the hot topics for the CIOs is Mobile, specifically Tablet Computers. They all have to support them, starting with the Executive SuiPreventing Data Loss in Microsoft Word 2011 on your Mac
By Jim Lundy Over the weekend, I had a few problems with Microsoft Word 2011 running on OS X Lion that prompted me to check the settings for Word. Surprise, I found that Word 2011 is not set to automatically create a ba
January 27, 2012
Aragon Research’s Workplace Scenario Steals The Show With Dallas CIOs
By Mike Anderson Two weeks ago in Dallas, I presented our Workplace Scenario to more than 100 CIOs who were at a SIM dinner event the night of the BCS football championship. I had the opportunity to meet many of the C
January 20, 2012
Summarizing Lotusphere 2012 in Three Words: Social, Mobile, Watson
By Jim Lundy It seems that one of the trends over the last five months is that the major tech titans are honing their messaging and upping the quality of their events. That was certainly true this year at IBM’s Lotusp
January 17, 2012
A Tale of Two Tech Titans, IBM and Kodak
Editors Note: This Blog Post was originally published on October 12, 2011. Since then, Kodak has restructured and on January 19th, they filed for bankruptcy after 131 years in business. By Jim Lundy The tale of two 1
January 6, 2012