June 9, 2021
IBM Watson Health: The Future of Surgery with Robots
by Adam Pease Recently, IBM Watson Health has released more information about its partnership with Merge Healthcare, which aims to leverage AI-based platforms to transform medical processes. At the core of this solution
June 8, 2021
Is Our Food Supply at Risk? The Escalation of Ransomware as a Service
by Craig Kennedy Last weekend JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company based in Brazil, became the latest high-profile victim of a ransomware attack as its facilities in the US, Canada, and Australia came unde
June 7, 2021
Hot Vendors 2021: Here’s What You Need to Know
by Katie Bartenslager It’s officially Hot Vendor season! In this blog, we will talk about all things Hot Vendor. We will go over what an Aragon Hot Vendor award is, how nominees are nominated and selected, and provide
June 4, 2021
Aragon Live! What You Should Know About Blockchain
(Aragon Live Podcast) –In this episode, Aragon Marketing Associate Katie Bartenslager, Associate Marketing Manager Kalyn Stockman, Writer and Editor Adam Pease, and CEO and Lead Analyst Jim Lundy discuss blockc
Adobe Prepares for AI Content Automation
by Adam Pease This week Adobe pushed further into the computer vision market with its new research on directional generative adversarial networks (DGANS). While the name may sound confusing, these AI systems are closely
June 2, 2021
Even Good AI Can’t Cover For Bad Management Decisions
by Betsy Burton This week, the online insurance company, Lemonade Inc., received significant backlash after it released a series of tweets about its AI capabilities. While the tweets have officially been deleted they can
Amazon’s Invasion of Your Home Internet—What Could Go Wrong?
by Jim Lundy Amazon Sidewalk is coming this month to your Echo and Ring devices and it’s an automatic invasion of your home internet that you need to be aware of. To get to the bottom line right away, we recommend opt
Considerations for Smart City IoT Deployment
by Ken Dulaney IoT has always been a singular concept for many, but those simple three letters can mislead about the true difficulty involved in deploying and managing the technologies under that umbrella term. IoT is a
June 1, 2021
Contentsquare Lands $500M Round to Take Digital Experiences to the Next Level
by Jim Lundy Contentsquare, a firm that is transforming the digital experience landscape by allowing enterprises to quickly understand and then adapt customer journeys, announced a massive funding round of $500M on May
May 31, 2021
Defi and Smart Contracts: DFINITY and Ethereum
by Adam Pease Recently, blockchain-based cloud computing provider DFINITY listed its cryptocurrency, ICP, on the Coinbase general exchange. ICP is of interest not just to investors and crypto traders, but to the enterpr
Will Facebook’s Push for Augmented Reality Help It Compete with Tiktok?
by Adam Pease and Jim Lundy While Facebook just published a new expose on its upcoming wearable augmented reality offering, it is fighting a war with Tiktok that features extensive use of Augmented Reality based filters
May 28, 2021
SolarWinds Hackers Impersonate USAID
by Craig Kennedy Microsoft announced on Thursday May 27th that its Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) had detected a wide scale malicious email campaign targeting around 3,000 accounts at 150+ organizations ac
May 27, 2021
May Aragon Cares: 2021 Grateful for Nurses Virtual 5k
by Amy Townsend For our May Aragon Cares activity, we chose to get outside and walk to support our nurses! This past year has been anything but easy for our first responders, so we wanted to do something to show our app
May 26, 2021
Microsoft Strikes Back at Amazon with Computer Vision
by Adam Pease At this week's Microsoft Build, Microsoft demoed its Azure Applied AI Services offering, which aims to deliver fast, streamlined AI solutions to the enterprise. This move foreshadows several trends that ar
May 21, 2021
12 Cool Technologies at Google I/O 2021
By Craig Kennedy The Google I/O 2021 developer conference came roaring back (virtually) this week after a 2-year hiatus. Last year’s conference was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and this year’s conference ha
Cisco Dives Back Into Events with Acquisition of Socio Labs
By Jim Lundy Cisco was already updating Webex to refresh its webinar platform but on May 12, 2021, the company dove further into the events business by announcing the intent to acquire Socio Labs, a modern events techno
May 20, 2021
Guided Selling: Check Twice Before You Buy
By Jim Lundy There is a lot of hype in the market today by sales enablement providers that they offer guided selling. The truth is chasing some of them. As a sales leader, how do you know what you’re getting when you
Google Strikes Back at Microsoft Fluid with Smart Canvas
By Jim Lundy This week at Google I/O, Google announced the ability to embed objects from other Google Workspace apps right into Google Docs. This will make Google Docs much more of a digital work hub than ever before an
May 17, 2021