December 17, 2019
Author: Jim Lundy
December 13, 2019
Get a Security Key This Holiday Season to Protect Your Identity
It’s day two of Aragon’s 12 Technologies of Christmas! This blog series will give you our recommendations for the perfect gift for the tech savvy individuals in your life this holiday season. by Jim Lundy For the
December 10, 2019
Amazon Enhances SageMaker And Wants to be Your AI Provider
by Jim Lundy Amazon re:Invent just ended in Las Vegas last week and besides the flurry of announcements around AWS Cloud and all the new Compute Services (I/O and Database), this year's re:Invent was about Amazon wantin
December 6, 2019
Carl Icahn Is Driving the Xerox Merger with HP
by Jim Lundy The drama of Xerox's initial offer to buyout HP for $33 billion (a cash and stock offer) got more interesting this week after HP rejected the offer and Xerox sent a letter stating that it intends to get mor
November 19, 2019
Salesforce Launches Mobile App Trailhead GO
by Jim Lundy Dreamforce is just getting started and Salesforce has come out of the gates with an early announcement. myTrailhead, the sales coach and learning solution from Salesforce, has a new companion app—Trailhea
November 12, 2019
Microsoft Ignite in Four Words: Azure, Office, Teams and Power Apps
by Jim Lundy I attended my 10th Microsoft Ignite this week and it did not disappoint. Coming on the heels of the DOD Jedi Cloud Contract win, Microsoft was quietly confident, and we can see that it has paid off with all
November 7, 2019
Microsoft Strikes Back at Amazon With U.S. DOD JEDI Cloud Win
by Jim Lundy Microsoft recently won the ten year $10 billion U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) cloud contract that is code named JEDI. Everyone thought that Amazon, which has a CIA contract was the shoe-in. Enter Microso
November 4, 2019
Altify Acquired By Upland Software
by Jim Lundy On October 7th, customer revenue optimization (CRO) provider Altify was acquired by Upland Software, a cloud-based enterprise work management provider backed by private equity. For those wondering what CRO
October 31, 2019
Zoomtopia 2019: Zoom’s Secret to Success And Pivot to the UCC Market
by Jim Lundy This week, Zoomtopia 2019 took place in San Jose, California and while happiness was still the theme, Zoom signaled it wants to compete in the larger UCC market where larger providers have a more establishe
October 18, 2019
Panopto Helps Power-up Zoom Recordings
by Jim Lundy This week, Aragon attended Zoomtopia 2019, Zoom's third annual user conference. We will be recapping Zoomtopia 19 in a separate blog, but suffice to say it was a strong event. Panopto, now a Zoom partner
October 15, 2019
Poly Re-Establishes Leadership with Studio X Series Launch
by Jim Lundy There has been a lot of change at Poly (formerly Polycom) over the last three years. Those turbulent times have come to an end under the leadership of CEO Joe Burton and his handpicked team of executives. T
October 11, 2019
Avaya and RingCentral $500M Partnership Will Force UCC Consolidation
by Jim Lundy View a PDF of this First Cut. Summary: Avaya and RingCentral announced a strategic partnership that will see Avaya selling Avaya Cloud Office by RingCentral (ACO) to its large on-premise install base.
October 1, 2019
Dropbox Challenges Google and Microsoft with Spaces
by Jim Lundy The race to the next generation digital workplace is on and last week Dropbox staked its claim. With the announcement of Dropbox Spaces, Dropbox is no longer just a cloud content management offering. In fac
September 27, 2019
Nintex Makes Workflow Generation Automatic
by Jim Lundy The race to automate the enterprise is on and while robotic process automation (RPA) is the rage, there is still a need to generate custom workflows that are tied to processes. This week, Nintex announced a
September 18, 2019
Database Wars: Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison Challenges Amazon AWS
by Jim Lundy It started out last year at AWS reinvent: Amazon stated that enterprises could not wait to leave Oracle. Yesterday, Amazon got its response and it was right from the mouth of Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry E
August 28, 2019
Digital Wars: FedEx Stops Amazon Deliveries
by Jim Lundy Amazon first challenged Walmart—the largest retailer in the world—and now it is challenging FedEx by increasing its native delivery capabilities, particularly for the last few miles of delivery. FedEx s
August 20, 2019
Intermedia Acquires Cloud Contact Center Provider Telax
by Jim Lundy The demand for collaboration and contact center technologies is only growing. Last week, on August 12th, 2019, unified communications as a service and business cloud email provider Intermedia announced the
August 7, 2019
Cisco Buys Conversational Intelligence Provider Voicea
By Jim Lundy and Samra Anees The web and video conferencing market has been ripe for disruption and with Cisco's move to buy Voicea, the shift to intelligent meetings is underway. Aragon has been covering the Intelligen
July 25, 2019
Why Apple’s Purchase of Intel’s 5G Smartphone Modem Business is Strategic
by Jim Lundy Smartphones are not enough in tech today—they are becoming a commodity. There is a big shift coming with 5G and Apple, one of the largest tech vendors in the world, is pretty dependent on a third party Qu
July 18, 2019