December 11, 2012
ZenPayroll Could Challenge Paychex and ADP
By Jim Lundy ZenPayroll is just starting and already they are getting a buzz from Twitter. It started with an innocent Retweet of a Techcrunch article. It was picked up by others and then questions were raised about wBuilding the Aragon Research Globe for Real-time Collaboration
By Jim Lundy The year was 2004 and it was then that it became clear how pervasive Web Conferencing was becoming. That was the year that Lou Latham and I authored the very first Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing. Of co
December 10, 2012
Okta Gets Ready to Scale, Adds Kara Wilson as CMO
By Jim Lundy Fresh off a new funding round of over $25 Million, Cloud Identity Management provider Okta looks like it is getting ready to catch the transition of enterprises to Cloud Apps by offering an easy to implemen
December 7, 2012
Bill Clark leaves Gartner for SAP: A Farewell but not Goodbye Part II
By Jim Lundy At about the same time I wrote the post about Jim Hollincheck leaving Gartner and joining Workday, another Gartner Thought Leader Bill Clark was also doing the same thing, but instead he decided to apply hi
November 28, 2012
RIM Races toward Revival in the face of Rejections
By Mike Anderson RIM has its future bet on the new BlackBerry 10 OS and BlackBerry 10 devices. The reviews of early prototypes and beta versions of the OS have been positive. Developers have been courted in droves, andPolycom Takes Bold Steps to Transform the Video Era
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Authors: Mike Anderson, Jim Lundy Topic: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Summary: On Monday October 8th, 20
November 27, 2012
SharePoint Conference in Three Words: Yammer, Upgrade, Store
By Jim Lundy Microsoft held its annual SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas on October 13-18, 2012 and it was memorable in a number of ways, not the least of which was the intensity of the participants. We will be disc
November 20, 2012
iPad Mini is just the Beginning of the Tablet Explosion
By Jim Lundy It was just a year ago and the only serious Tablet on the market was the iPad 2. Apple sold 15.43 million iPad 2s in the fourth quarter of 2011. Jump ahead to the holiday season for 2012 and the iPad Mini
November 13, 2012
SharePoint 2013 and Yammer at SPC12
By Jim Lundy At a session here at the SharePoint 2012 Conference (#SPC12), Yammer and Microsoft clarified the direction they are taking for where enterprises should look for deploying Social Networking. Given the major
November 8, 2012
Building the Aragon Research Globe for Learning
By Jim Lundy For many of you that I've worked with over the years, you know that for nearly the entire time I was at Gartner, Corporate Learning was one of the topics I covered (aka, LMS, LCMS Virtual Classroom, Learnin
November 5, 2012
The MacBook that went to Work
By Jim Lundy For most of my working career, I was a card carrying member of the Device you got from IT and for most of that time, it was a Windows Laptop. That all changed in 2008, when we moved from Upstate New York ba
November 2, 2012
Cisco Collaboration Summit in 4 Words: H.265, Customers, Webex, Files
By Jim Lundy Cisco held its annual Collaboration Summit in Los Angeles on October 13-15, 2012 and partners, customers and analysts were in attendance. To us it was all about Video (H.265), Customers, Webex and Content (
October 30, 2012
YamJam and HRTECH: The Rise of Social Recognition
By Jim Lundy This blog post is about the rise of Social Recognition, but it could be titled the coming war between Badgeville and Globoforce (Badging vs Corporate Recognition), but we'll leave vendor wars for future dis
October 23, 2012
Tablet Survey: Which one is on your Christmas List?
By Jim Lundy This week has lots of events going on and lots of tablet product announcements. Whether you are at IBM IOD or Gartner Symposium or any other event, the new Tablets, including the highly anticipated iPad M
October 22, 2012
Tablet Era Driving a Transition in Mobility
By Mike Anderson The Tablet Era is here, and the war for tablet leadership is escalating. On the eve of Microsoft’s tablet entry and the highly anticipated iPad Mini from Apple, the focus on devices is at the foref
October 17, 2012
BoxWorks 2012 summarized in Three Words: Customers, Partners, Platform
By Jim Lundy Box held its second annual Boxworks customer event in San Francisco on Oct 8th and 9th, 2012 at the Westin St. Francis. We were at BoxWorks in 2011 and while that was a solid event, this year it felt likeSpigit Makes Innovation Predictable with Crowdcast Purchase
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Social Software Issue: Who are the social software providers and how will they navigate a crowded market? Summary: On Sept 18th, Spigit
October 12, 2012
AT&T and IBM Alliance will mean a more Secure Cloud
By Jim Lundy In a recent post, I asked if your Cloud Vendors were ready to support your enterprise. This week Tech Titans AT&T and IBM responded and announced a joint initiative that signals a response to the growin
October 8, 2012