July 2, 2021
Blogs
July 1, 2021
5 Ideas To Launch Your Corporate Volunteer Program
by Kalyn Stockman If you are familiar with Aragon Research, you’ve hopefully heard about Aragon Cares, our corporate volunteering program. With this program, we conduct monthly activities that are focused on helping o
June 29, 2021
Computer Vision at the Grocery Store: Amazon Versus Trigo
by Adam Pease This last week, new developments were afoot in the world of computer vision for retail. Amazon, a major provider, and Trigo, a new market entrant, both revealed news about their seamless checkout solutions
The Importance of Zero Trust for Enterprise IoT Deployments
by Ken Dulaney Cisco estimates that there will be 10.6 billion IoT connections growing to 14.7 billion by 2023. While this number reflects both consumer and enterprise, we must recognize that consumer technology constan
June 23, 2021
Embrace CitDev to Increase Security, Innovation, and Peace
by Betsy Burton I recently spoke with an IT leader about the use of SaaS and cloud-based applications. During the conversation, he spoke about having to deal with “shadow IT,” also sometimes referred to as “rogue
Tesla and the Push for Vision in Self-Driving Cars
by Adam Pease Tesla's new supercomputer, "Dojo," has been unveiled at CVPR 2021, the international conference for computer vision. Dojo clocks in at 1.8 exaflops of performance, making it one of the best in the world.
June 18, 2021
A Computer Vision Unicorn: Tractable Disrupts the Insurance Industry
by Adam Pease This week on June 17th, the UK-based computer vision company Tractable announced that it had secured $60M in a series D funding round led by Insight Partners and Georgian. Tractable offers a computer visio
Is It Time to Refresh Your MacBooks?
by Jim Lundy Apple just had its annual worldwide developer conference and there were lots of hints about the future of macOS and the future of Apple Silicon. To date, the only processor that has been released is the M1
Skillsoft Goes Public: Three Things to Know
by Jim Lundy Skillsoft went public this week, and while it still has the same name there’s a little bit more to the story than just going public. This blog examines three things about the new Skillsoft that many ove
June 17, 2021
June Aragon Cares: Humane Society of Silicon Valley
By Jenna Stockman This June, the Aragon team had the pleasure of assembling tie blankets for the animals of the Humane Society Silicon Valley. This enjoyable activity proved to be the perfect opportunity to bring the te
Mind-Reading Kernel Helmets–Bringing the Brain Online?
by Kalyn Stockman At Aragon Research, we’re all about digital transformation for business and taking things online–but taking the brain online seems like something in the far future. Is the future now? Recently, Ker
June 16, 2021
USPS Teams up with NVIDIA for Computer Vision
by Adam Pease This month the US Postal Service (USPS) made public news that it would be incorporating computer vision into 195 of its mail processing centers. The announcement boasted that these new AI systems would be
Make Informed Decisions With Effective Performance Metrics
By Amy Townsend Did you know that less than 30% of organizations define business value-based performance metrics, and less than 40% of those organizations go back and track these metrics? In today’s dynamic business e
June 9, 2021
Transform Tour 2021: The Power of Disruptive Technologies Recap
By Katie Bartenslager Our second stop on our Transform Tour 2021: ‘The Power of Disruptive Technologies’ (sponsored by Avaya and Contentsquare) has come to a close! This event consisted of three sessions that dove i
The Emerging tPaaS Market: Watch This Space
by Betsy Burton Yesterday, I was pleased to be able to participate in Aragon Research’s June 2021 Transform Tour. It was a very exciting and dynamic event. The first presentation featured two of my colleagues Jim Lun
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
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