April 29, 2021
Blogs
April 26, 2021
Apple M1 Silicon Is Powering Its New iMac and iPad Pro Models
by Jim Lundy This week Apple introduced its new iPad Pro models and its new colorful iMac. Both are powered by the Apple M1 processor, which is developed in-house by Apple. While many sales teams have experimented with
April 21, 2021
Transform Tour 2021: Transformation via Automation Recap
By Amy Townsend Today, Aragon Research kicked off our 2021 Transform Tour (sponsored by Avaya) with our first event of the year: ‘Transform Tour 2021: Transformation via Automation’. This event included two insightf
April 16, 2021
Microsoft Finds its Siri Voice with 19 Billion Purchase of Nuance
by Jim Lundy and Craig Kennedy Microsoft is buying Nuance, a conversational AI and cloud-based healthcare clinical intelligence provider, in an all cash deal for $19.7 Billion. This represents a 13.3x multiple, as Nuanc
April 9, 2021
Box Gets 500M from KKR and New Chairman from Siris Capital
by Jim Lundy Box announced this week that it plans to take 500,000,000 in investment from KKR in a move designed to thwart an activist investor Starboard Value LP. Starboard was pushing for a sale. The deal is a win for
April 8, 2021
The Future of Work Is Remote, Collaborative, and Intelligent
By Amy Townsend The COVID-19 pandemic forced many employees to perform their jobs remotely. This, in turn, forced teams to collaborate virtually. Legacy applications did not serve this use case well. Thus, many vendors
April 7, 2021
Crownpeak Buys e-Spirit—The Consolidation Era of Content Experience Platforms Begins
by Jim Lundy Crownpeak announced it was buying its competitor e-Spirit in a deal that was announced on March 19th. This blog discusses the implications of the new content experience category and the reason it will force
April 6, 2021
Verizon Business Launches BlueJeans Telehealth—Will Compete With MDLIVE
by Jim Lundy Verizon announced that it was making a shift into the growing telehealth market opportunity with its announcement of BlueJeans Telehealth. Telehealth exploded with demand during the pandemic, and now it is
April 5, 2021
April Aragon Cares: Compassion In Oakland
by Kalyn Stockman Sometimes, we plan our Aragon Cares monthly events months in advance–but sometimes, something happens in the world that inspires us to donate to a certain cause ASAP. And for April, this was the case
April 1, 2021
LeanIX and Wipro Leaders: Discuss The Future of the CIO
by Betsy Burton I had the pleasure of hosting a panel today with Christian Richter, SVP of Customer Success with LeanIX, and David Kenner, Senior Partner with Wipro. The discussion was focused on how leading CIOs Increa
March 26, 2021
PactSafe Sells to Ironclad as Clickwrap Transaction Market Is Just Getting Started
by Jim Lundy This week PactSafe announced that it was being acquired by San Francisco based Ironclad, which was fresh off of its $100 Million funding round and had money to burn. Terms of the deal were not announced, bu
Understanding the NFT Craze: An Enterprise Perspective
by Adam Pease Last week an auction at Christie's closed for a staggering $69M sum. What was being sold? A digital image. The piece, a montage of a 5,000 smaller digital artworks by a seller named Beeple, is called "Ever
The Digital Transformation of Cities: Houston, We Have a Problem!
by Craig Kennedy We’ve been talking to governments and observing behaviors in cities of all sizes across the US. While there is a clamor and almost a universal desire to have a smart city, the issue we’re seeing r
March 22, 2021
Automation is Critical for Digitization
By Amy Townsend Enterprises understand that to remain competitive they must go fully digital with customer-facing documents and processes. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to operate in a completely digi
March 19, 2021
A Timely Hack: The Story of CD Projekt RED’s Fall From Grace
by Adam Pease They promised to release one of the most innovative games of all time, but ended up disappointing their customers and being forced to negotiate with hackers for their own source code. Poland-based CD Proje
March 18, 2021
Time To Rethink Your Strategy and Ops: Are You Ready For the Return of Customers?
by Betsy Burton I went to a large retailer the other day. If you want to know the truth, our old dog just loves a specific toy, and frankly at his age he gets what he wants. I have not been shopping in stores for many ma
Genesys Gets Smarter with Acquisition of Bold360
by Craig Kennedy On Tuesday March 16th Genesys, a leader in intelligent contact center (ICC), announced its intent to acquire Bold360, a leading player in the rapidly growing conversational AI market, from LogMeIn for a
March Aragon Cares: HomeFirst Services
by Katie Bartenslager Each year, weather and natural disasters become more unpredictable. We have seen ice storms in Texas that have left people without power for a week and we have seen fires tear through the pacific n
March 12, 2021
Microsoft Mesh—Will Virtual Reality Take Off in 2022?
by Jim Lundy At Microsoft Ignite, a new virtual reality platform called Microsoft Mesh was unveiled. Powered by Azure and leveraging features such as HoloLens, Microsoft Mesh is the newest virtual reality environment th
March 10, 2021