April 7, 2012
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Workplace Train Wreck in the Cloud
By Mike Anderson In each major era of workplace technology evolution there has been a significant discontinuity. The discontinuity tends to be characterized by a period in which multiple competing approaches align towar
April 3, 2012
iPhone as a Remote Control for your Mac
By Jim Lundy iPhones (and Android Phones) can do a lot, thanks to nearly a million apps between them. The last two days Aragon Research was at ITC in Harrisburg, PA and we gave show floor presentations both days in aCloud Trends Panel with Google, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon
By Jim Lundy At the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's 16th annual Intergovernmental Technology Conference (ITC), I moderated the opening panel on Trends in Government Cloud Computing. It featured the biggest names in Clo
April 2, 2012
Consumerization of IT drives disruption, demands balance
By Mike Anderson Consumerization of IT continues to be one of the top priorities confronting business and IT organizations. The promises of reducing costs, driving up productivity and improving employee satisfaction k
March 29, 2012
Enterprise Connect in Three Words: IP Phones, UC&C, Video
By Jim Lundy Enterprise Connect was held this week in Orlando, Florida and it was all about IP Phones, UC&C, (Unified Communications and Collaboration) and Video. Mobile enablement of all of this was an undercurren
March 22, 2012
Saba Summit in Three Words: Social, Talent, HD Video
By Jim Lundy Saba held its annual customer user group meeting this week in Miami Beach, Florida and there are three words to summarize what we saw: Social, Talent and HD Video. There were a number of announcements on pr
March 18, 2012
When You Work At Home, Productivity Takes Planning
By Mike Anderson Our research at Aragon centers on work, how it’s changing, and as a result, how dramatically the way work gets done is also changing. One of the top issues directly affecting people, me included, i
March 16, 2012
Social Performance – What is Social Worth?
By Jim Lundy Social Performance was all the rage yesterday at Salesforce's Cloudforce Event in San Francisco. The Salesforce Rypple - Social Performance capability was announced at a price point of $5.00 per user/month
March 5, 2012
iPad 3 Survey: Tablets Appearing at Work, Home and School
By Jim Lundy The iPad 3 gets announced in 2 days and the hype surrounding Tablets keeps getting louder, so we created a Survey to find out what you think. Lots of people are talking about what the iPad 3 will have from
February 29, 2012
iPad 3 versus Windows 8: Speed and Agility
By Jim Lundy iPad 3 Frenzy The announcement of the iPad 3 is only six days away and at the same time, we are now officially in the era of the Windows 8 Preview. Both the iPad 3 and Windows 8 are very popular search t
February 28, 2012
Mobile World Congress: Google, Microsoft, and Mobile Ecosystems
By Mike Anderson The Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona is about to begin its third day. Much of the attention for two days has been on the devices. Both smartphones and tablets have been in the limelight of
February 26, 2012
BYOD: My Journey From Windows To Mac
By Mike Anderson Last year as we were forming Aragon I was a steadfast Windows user. Although we had made the decision early that we would allow user freedom of choice for computing, Jim was all Mac in his home offic
February 25, 2012
HCM -Talent Go Cloud, Windows 8 and iPad 3
By Jim Lundy This week was full of announcements from major HCM players, such as SAP (solidified its Cloud Roadmap based on SuccessFactors) and Oracle (which sought to reassure customers on its pending acquisition of
February 17, 2012
Voice Assistants will change the way you work
By Jim Lundy Last night, as myself and our VP of Sales Don Kibler were preparing for an evening meal, we were using mobile apps to find a decent restaurant. We fiddled with the apps for ten minutes looking for decent pl
February 14, 2012
Learning Content – Shifting to Advanced Simulations and Gaming
By Jim Lundy I gave a talk recently to some major enterprises who do Learning Content development. The discussion was around the shift from static learning content to an evolution of more advanced simulations and eventu
February 9, 2012
HCM and Talent Merger Wars Claim More Victims
By Jim Lundy With the announcement today that Oracle is in the process of buying Taleo less than 60 days after SAP announced it was buying SuccessFactors, the race is on to offer the most complete talent/HCM suite. T
February 6, 2012
How Apple Ushered in a New Era of Computing
By Jim Lundy A new era of computing is upon us. It involves touch and voice, simplicity and apps that let people do amazing things. It is one in which the operating system stays in the background and doesn't get in the
February 3, 2012
Countdown to the First Aragon Globe on Enterprise Social Software
The first Aragon Research Globe Report is underway and Enterprise Social Software is the market we are evaluating. We will be evaluating over 25 providers of Enterprise Social Software. There are vendors that you know and
February 2, 2012