July 27, 2018
Author: Jim Lundy
June 25, 2018
People-Centric Collaboration: A Fireside Chat with Neha Mirchandani
by Jim Lundy Making communication and collaboration less complex and more seamless is part of the impetus behind people-centric collaboration. I recently had a fireside chat with Neha Mirchandani, VP of Corporate Mar
June 21, 2018
IBM’s New Cloud Data Centers and the Global Cloud Wars
by Jim Lundy IBM announced last week that it has added 18 new cloud zones to support the growing demand for cloud. This is a significant move and prepares it well for the war for both public and private cloud. New Data
June 14, 2018
Conga Adds eSignatures and Buys Octiv – The New Race for WCA
by Jim Lundy View a PDF of this First Cut. Summary: In two recent moves, Conga added eSignatures to its content automation platform, effectively ending its partnerships with DocuSign and Adobe. It also announced the
June 11, 2018
The Race to Own SCL: Showpad Buys LearnCore for $50M
by Jim Lundy Showpad announced last week that it is buying Chicago-based LearnCore, an emerging Sales Coaching and Learning (SCL) provider. The estimated price is reported to be $50 million, which to Aragon, represents
June 5, 2018
Why Did Microsoft Buy GitHub?
by Jim Lundy On Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced that it is buying GitHub—one of the top destinations for developers to manage their software projects—for $7.5 billion, an all-stock deal. When the news firs
June 4, 2018
WWDC: Apple Brings iPhone Apps to Mac
by Jim Lundy The Apple Worldwide Developer Conference starts today and has been met with a lot of unfounded speculation on the possibility of new devices. However, what will be announced is the new capability to run iPh
May 31, 2018
Vasco Rebrands as OneSpan and Acquires Dealflo
by Jim Lundy Vasco, a major DTM and digital identity provider, announced on May 30th that it is rebranding as OneSpan. It also announced a new offering, its Trusted Identity Platform (TID), and the acquisition of UK-bas
May 23, 2018
Microsoft Modernizes SharePoint with 3D and AI
by Jim Lundy At the SharePoint Conference this week in Las Vegas, Microsoft CVP Jeff Teper unveiled a new, modern version of SharePoint that is ready for the digital era. Two of the big releases tied to SharePoint 2
May 21, 2018
Pluralsight’s IPO and the Impact on the Learning Market
by Jim Lundy Pluralsight, based out of Salt Lake City, is a fast-growing learning content provider. Last week, Pluralsight IPO'd and this move validated something that many have been talking about for a while: the le
May 15, 2018
Google Drive Becomes Google One: Upgrade Your Cloud Storage
by Jim Lundy Google is renaming some of its services. The standalone storage options—known as Google Drive—just became Google One, and existing Google Drive paid subscribers will be upgraded to Google One over the n
May 12, 2018
Seismic Buys Savo Group, Sales Engagement Enters a Consolidation Phase
by Jim Lundy Seismic, one of the leaders in our Aragon Research Globe™ for Sales Engagement Platforms, announced this week that it is buying rival Savo Group for an undisclosed price. Seismic made the announcement via
May 9, 2018
The Google Assistant Demo That Changed the World
by Jim Lundy At Google I/O, Google's annual developer conference, an incredible thing happened. During Google's main keynote, I watched a Google Assistant demo that will change the world and put pressure on nearly every
May 8, 2018
The Learning and Talent Firm You’ve Never Heard of
by Jim Lundy A shift is occurring in many technology markets. It started years ago with the concept of what is often referred to as "roll-ups." Oracle was one of the market roll-ups pioneers, and in the last ten years,
May 1, 2018
Rowan Trollope Joins Five9 as CEO
by Jim Lundy The ink is barely dry, but today, Five9 announced during their earnings call that Rowan Trollope is joining the company as CEO, effective May 3rd. For Five9, this is a huge win. Rowan, who is very well kn
April 20, 2018
GDPR Compliance and Content – Don’t Wait
by Jim Lundy The GDPR deadline of May 25th, 2018 is looming and Aragon estimates that only 55% of enterprises will be ready and fully compliant by the deadline. We recently published a research note about content and
April 18, 2018
Cisco Copies Microsoft by Rebranding Spark as Webex Teams
by Jim Lundy At some point recently, Cisco blinked. Cisco Spark, launched only three years ago, is being dumped. Cisco is doubling down on the Webex brand and the Cisco Spark mobile messaging service will be rebranded a
April 12, 2018
Why Would Plantronics Buy Polycom?
by Jim Lundy This blog was updated on August 29th, 2019. Headset maker Plantronics made a major move on March 28th, 2018 when it announced it was buying Polycom for $U.S. 2 billion, the same price that Siris Capita
April 5, 2018
DocuSign Files S-1, Validates the $25 Billion DTM Market
by Jim Lundy DocuSign officially filed its S-1 last week. For Aragon, this action validates everything we have said about the Digital Transaction Management market. When we first wrote about DTM in 2014, many end users
March 27, 2018