October 2, 2013
Blogs
October 1, 2013
Innovation and the PC Era at Microsoft: Ballmer Watched as Apple Grew
By Jim Lundy This post, when you break it down, is about innovation. The contestants are Apple and Microsoft. Steve Ballmer is now a short-timer at Microsoft, and he is due to retire as CEO in less than 12 months.
September 24, 2013
Oracle OpenWorld 2013 – Why The Best Demo I’ve Ever Had Wasn’t A Demo
Oracle OpenWorld has taken over San Francisco this week! Often we go to technology conferences and are clamored with multiple demos showing the speeds and feeds of new products. And as we all have witnessed, sometimes the
September 20, 2013
Summarizing BoxWorks in Three Words: Scale, Apps, IPO
By Jim Lundy We attended Box's third annual customer and analyst BoxWorks conference this week, which was held at the Hilton in San Francisco. It was a far different event than last year in a myriad of ways, particularl
September 19, 2013
Mobile Content Management can’t be ignored
By Jim Lundy The world of content management is changing and changing fast. The Mobile Content Management (MCM) era is here, and it's going to cause disruption in multiple markets. This post talks about MCM and our for
September 11, 2013
Wearable Computing – The Smartwatch And The App Personality Matrix
Wearable computing is about to change mobile in ways we haven't thought of yet. However, devices without apps are honestly just soulless pieces of hardware that have no real purpose. Infuse devices with apps that are usef
September 3, 2013
Stephen Elop as the next CEO of Microsoft?
By Jim Lundy The ink isn't even dry and now rumors are swirling about Stephen Elop taking over the reigns at Microsoft. The person who started the rumors is none other than Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Yesterday, Mi
August 30, 2013
Email Wars: Microsoft Fires Storage Salvo at Google
By Jim Lundy The Email Wars are back. Microsoft attacked Google yesterday, the first time I've seen a move at the product feature level that puts Google on the defensive. Yesterday, Microsoft announced it was expandin
August 20, 2013
Is UC Old School, Going Through Growing Pains Or About To Graduate?
UC (Unified Communications) has been declared a maturing market by many industry experts. However, is what we are calling a maturing market really UC? I’ve been following communications and collaboration for over 15
August 14, 2013
Apple and Microsoft face similar Innovation Challenges
By Jim Lundy Oracle CEO Larry Ellison did a Television interview with CBS News earlier this week and besides revealing his 25 year friendship with Steve Jobs, he offered an opinion that Apple will not do as well without
August 7, 2013
Silicon Valley: The Movers and Shakers in Marketing
By Jim Lundy When it comes to technology executives, the focus is often on the C-Level, but they have a ton of people that make them look good. There are new movers and shakers in Silicon Valley, particularly at the ma
August 2, 2013
Social Business Is Here: Jive and HootSuite Make the Wall of Fame
By Jim Lundy In 2013, social is shifting away from a cobbled together bunch of features to a set of offerings that allow people to get work done. We call it social business and to net it out, it is the desire to get wo
July 18, 2013
Business Managers want better Training: Learning from Xerox
By Jim Lundy This isn’t a new story about Corporate Learning, but it is one that is repeated time and time again. The Learning and Development (L&D) department may miss the mark or may be out of touch with wha
July 11, 2013
Microsoft Reorg 2013: The End of the Microsoft Office Division
By Jim Lundy Microsoft announced its 2013 restructuring today and with it came a few departures, namely the President of the Microsoft Office Division, Kurt DelBene. Very little mention was made of Kurt's departure, e
July 4, 2013
Cloud Computing – Making Money got harder thanks to Oracle and Salesforce
By Jim Lundy Oracle and Salesforce just made Cloud Computing harder for everyone else. What? Yes, Oracle, by giving some incredible pricing to Salesforce for its Oracle Database offering, just made the business of Cloud
June 21, 2013
The Journey Beyond UC: Social, Real-time, and Business Processes
Siemens Enterprise Communications announced at its analyst summit this week in Denver, Colorado, a new direction for the company in real-time and Social collaboration, with a new initiative code named Project Ansible. The
June 19, 2013
MacBook Air 2013 – Three Reasons it is the new Laptop Standard
By Jim Lundy Last week at Apple's WWDC, Apple announced new models of its pioneering MacBook Air laptop computer. There was so much focus on iOS 7 at that event that most seem to have missed what we feel may be a new
June 12, 2013
Cisco Collaboration US in Three Words: Cloud, Collaboration, Mobile
By Jim Lundy For four weeks in April and May, I was on the road sharing Aragon's views of Collaboration at the Cisco Collaboration US Tour. Lane Cooper of Network World moderated the events and they spanned eight
June 11, 2013