September 27, 2019
Author: Jim Lundy
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
Smart Communications Buys Intelledox As WCA Heats Up
by Jim Lundy The workflow and content automation (WCA) market is heating up. Earlier this year, Dropbox acquired WCA provider HelloSign and today, Smart Communications announced that it is buying Intelledox for an undis
July 10, 2019
Zoom’s Mac Security Problem and a Fast Response
Updated on July 11th 2:02 PM PDT by Jim Lundy The latest news adds to the growing story about security with Zoom video conferencing. The discovery that Zoom installs a server on Macs was a shocking revelation. This r
July 9, 2019
Cisco Doubles Down on AI with Cognitive Collaboration
by Jim Lundy For many, it came as a surprise last year when Chuck Robbins hired Cisco Board Member Amy Chang to run the Collaboration group. While Amy had been a Cisco Board member, she also had a small start-up called
June 28, 2019
Workplace Security And The Role of Video Analytics
HR and Security leaders should adopt video analytics to add an extra layer of safety and security in their workplace. by Jim Lundy There was an unfortunate tragedy in Morgan Hill, CA this week: a shooting at a Ford
Can Facebook Be Trusted In the Enterprise After Spying On Teens?
by Jim Lundy As reported widely by TechCrunch earlier this year, Facebook announced that it was ending its practice of using its VPN Tool Onavo to spy on teenagers. This came after Apple forced the issue by revoking the
June 25, 2019
Business Leaders Should Be Wary Of Crowdsourced Technology Reviews
by Jim Lundy In 2016, I was approached by an employee of crowdsourced review site G2 Crowd asking me to do a paid review for some software offerings. I declined and posted the invite on LinkedIn. Since that time, a numb
June 21, 2019
Activision Blizzard Games CTO: Stop the Bad Guys with Trust Circles
by Jim Lundy At the first annual Fuze Flex Summit on June 5th, I interviewed Pavel Murnikov, the CTO of Activision Blizzard Games. His 100 person team helps to ensure the safety and security of the overload online profe
June 12, 2019
Analytics Wars: Google and Salesforce Versus Microsoft Power BI
by Jim Lundy Within days of Google buying Looker for $2.6 Billion, Salesforce announced it's buying leading analytics provider Tableau for $15.3 Billion in an all stock deal. Why did both firms make a move? Well, the ne
May 30, 2019
Cyber Attacks: The Importance of Enterprise Backups
by Betsy Burton and Jim Lundy The US/China trade war continues to escalate with stalled trade talks, plus threats of additional tariffs and on supplies of raw materials. But the ominous statement made most recently in a
May 21, 2019
HP Strikes Back: Former Autonomy CFO Sentenced to Jail
by Jim Lundy It is a story you just can't make up. Former Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain was convicted in US Federal Court in San Francisco for fraud related to Autonomy's financial practices, fined $4 million, and sente
May 9, 2019
Bigtincan Genie Sales Assistant Will Challenge Salesforce
by Jim Lundy We are in the era of shifting from chatbots to real assistants—clearly evident yesterday at Google I/O 19. However, this week in sales, sales engagement platform (SEP) provider Bigtincan launched Genie, a
April 26, 2019
Inkling Gains Momentum as Demand for Interactive Content Grows
By Jim Lundy Back in the day, when I worked on the Hillview Campus at Xerox Parc, the discussion was about virtual documents that could display and render just about anything. Jump ahead to 2019 and there are very few w
April 23, 2019
Intel 5G Debacle Drove Apple to Cut a Deal with Qualcomm
By Jim Lundy This wasn't the way Apple thought things would work out relative to Qualcomm. 5G is coming like a freight train and there are few suppliers that will have a 5G cellular modem ready for Apple's iPhones. Appl
April 18, 2019