May 11, 2020
Blogs
May 8, 2020
IBM Makes Watson Assistant Smarter with Project Debater Infusion
by Jim Lundy This week at IBM Think 2020, IBM announced major enhancements to its flagship conversational AI platform Watson Assistant. IBM announced that it will add some strong AI capabilities from its Project Debater
Nvidia Dives Into the Data Center—Closes Mellanox and Buys Cumulus
by Jim Lundy The deal was announced last year and finally approved this year. Nvidia is buying Israel-based Mellanox—a maker of data center gear that is optimized for AI-based applications, among other things. While i
May 7, 2020
Top 3 COVID-19 Initiatives for Sales Leaders
last updated December 14th, 2020 by Patricia Lundy Taking your customers to dinner is a thing of a bygone era—at least for the time being. With the COVID-19 vaccine distribution underway, that may start to change i
May 6, 2020
Vendor Briefing 101: Your Guide to Success
By Nga Pham You’ve likely heard about Vendor Briefings at Aragon Research—but how do they work, exactly? In this blog, we will cover how a vendor briefing is conducted as well as provide you with particular best pra
May 4, 2020
Will New Behaviors Emerge Post-Pandemic?
by Betsy Burton I have been thinking a lot about how the coronavirus pandemic may change our work cultures going forward into the future. The circumstances have me thinking about the times I have been in a culturally ne
April 30, 2020
Google Makes Google Meet Free, Reiterates Its Focus on Security
by Jim Lundy Google is not standing still. Google Meet (formerly known as Google Hangouts Meet) has been updated a lot over the last year. However, this week Google went much further and made Meet free—for a while. G
April 29, 2020
We Must Do Far More to Protect Privacy
by Ken Dulaney Recent news has reported that the Ring division of Amazon is considering adding both a facial recognition camera and license plate recognition to its family of doorbell and outdoor cameras. What followed
April 24, 2020
Silicon Valley Tried to Help Zoom on Security
By Jim Lundy Zoom is now in the security business in a big way, but its customers forced it to act. The provider has had serious issues, with many in the public concerned that a Zoom meeting sign in is not a secure way
April 23, 2020
Microsoft and Cisco’s Missed Opportunity
by Betsy Burton I watched in awe as my family members, nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews all navigated Zoom during a family gathering. Most of them had never done web-conferencing or heard of Zoom before fo
Use Leading Performance Metrics to Understand What Might Happen
by Betsy Burton One of the topics that I have heard a lot about in the news as it relates to data about the COVID-19 pandemic is related to different types of data metrics. This is a very common issue in business perfor
April 16, 2020
Your Reputation Is Being Defined During This Crisis
by Betsy Burton Many businesses and public entities spend significant time, energy, and money establishing a brand and reputation. Be it "a provider of quality products and services," "an environmentally sustainable com
Verizon Buys BlueJeans to Leverage Video Conferencing
by Jim Lundy On April 16th, Verizon announced its purchase of enterprise web and video conferencing provider BlueJeans. The $400 million deal comes at a time of dramatic growth and opportunity for the web and video conf
April 9, 2020
Aragon’s Microsoft Power Platform SWOT Analysis
by Betsy Burton Over the past 6-8 months, we’ve seen significant evidence of a rise in the market interest for Microsoft Power Platform from both end-users and technology & service providers (TSPs). With Microsoft
April 6, 2020
April Aragon Cares: Giving Back Virtually
by Kalyn Stockman The recent pandemic caused us to reconsider our Aragon Cares plan for the next few months. Some of the charity events we planned to participate in involved face-to-face contact with others, as many eve
April 3, 2020
RingCentral Challenges Zoom With New RingCentral Video
By Jim Lundy They used to be partners, but now it is increasingly about competing for the same customers. I'm talking about Zoom and RingCentral. When Zoom was just getting started, many forget that RingCentral CEO Vlad
April 1, 2020
Business Strategy in the Time of the Coronavirus
by Betsy Burton I have been thinking a lot about what we should be doing to ensure we are investing our time in the right activities during this pandemic. It is very understandable that many businesses, governments, and
5 Questions HR Leaders Have About COVID-19
by the Aragon HR Team updated 1-22-21 COVID-19 vaccines have begun being distributed to healthcare workers and people 65+ in some areas of the world. It's too early to tell how quickly we'll reach herd immunity, and wha
March 31, 2020
Alfresco Adds New Solutions With TSG Acquisition
By Jim Lundy Alfresco, under the leadership of new CEO Jay Bhatt, has wasted no time adding more solutions horsepower to the Alfresco portfolio by scooping up Chicago-based Technology Services Group (TSG), a provider of