June 16, 2016
Blogs
June 15, 2016
Microsoft’s Sprightly App Targets Mobile for Creating Content
By Evan Vuckovic Microsoft recently introduced a mobile app it calls Sprightly. The Microsoft Sprightly app enables marketers of all levels to quickly design and market their catalogs, e-cards, price lists, and flyersâ€
June 14, 2016
Microsoft Buys LinkedIn – Targets Facebook and Salesforce
by Jim Lundy Microsoft announced its $26.2 Billion plan to acquire LinkedIn yesterday. This blog focuses on Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn and its need to focus on Facebook and Salesforce. Microsoft's Acquisiti
June 9, 2016
Digital Transformation: How to Become a Game Changer
by Jim Sinur Are you a game changer? Maybe you'd like to become one. My new book on Digital Transformation can be read in a long plane ride, and is filled with helpful strategic and tactical gems for those that wa
June 8, 2016
Pegaworld 2016: It’s a Benefits Buffet
Pegasystems has been strategic in leveraging it's Digital Business Platform (DBP)Â in many agility rich applications that are built for change and digital transformation. It's been very apparent, at the conference, that thPegaworld 2016: Hitting on All Cylinders
The growth of the crowd over last year is impressive at over 20%. It should surprise anyone as Pega has over 420 solid clients including their original two clients. Pega continues to expand and desires to be 800M by the enSales Engagement Platforms – What and Why
By Jim Lundy Sales Engagement Platforms are here. We have been tracking the trends in sales and marketing for years, going all the way back to 2008, when I went to Dreamforce, in part because many at Gartner did not belMicrosoft Planner to Challenge Asana, Wrike, and Bolste
By Jim Lundy Microsoft has always been quick to spot winners and two Aragon Hot Vendors in Structured Collaboration, Asana and Wrike, are in Microsoft's gunsights. The reason is simple: Microsoft wants to own the Offi
June 6, 2016
Instagram Business Tools Keep UX Top of Mind
By Patricia Lundy This blog post is a follow-up to one I did a few weeks ago, when Instagram’s Business Profiles were generating buzz but were only available in a limited beta launch. Different outlets were specul
June 2, 2016
What You Need to Know About Our New Digital Maturity Model
by Jim Sinur Most digital maturity models are aimed at the technologies used. While this is important, technology alone doesn't buy an organization digital maturity. There are many other aspects to digital maturity that
June 1, 2016
Will Modeling Play a Role in Digital Transformation?
by Jim Sinur My answer would be yes. Organizations will likely use a business or a technology model to guide the digital journey, in the same way maps help to guide on a hike or long journey. For a plan
May 24, 2016
Lessons from Pixar and Moment: Creative Marketing
Today’s digital workplace requires marketers to be a hybrid of copywriters, designers, and photographers, along with their normal marketing responsibilities. As business roles continue to shift and overlap,EMC World Summarized in Three Words: Dell, Cloud, LEAP
By Jim Lundy I attended EMC World in Las Vegas the first week of May. It marked a turning point for EMC - as the merger approval with Dell is on the horizon. What struck us about the event was the amount of innovation t
May 18, 2016
TIBCO NOW Reveals New Goals and Improvements
By Jim Sinur There are 2000+ at the TIBCO NOWÂ conference as we speak. It's been over 18 months since we have heard from the TIBCO brain trust on their plans for moving forward. After going private, there were rumblingsGoogle Allo – a Predictive Chat App
By Jim Lundy Never say never. Google IO16 is happening today and tomorrow in Mountain View, and Aragon Research will be there for some of the deep dive sessions. That said, the news is already out about Allo and Duo
May 17, 2016
Benefits of Optimizing Manual Operations
You don't hear much about organizations tackling the glut of manual processes that they have. While one can be attracted by the digital efforts that are in the headlines today, there is also great opportunity in optimizin
May 13, 2016
Instagram Introduces Business Profiles, Takes Business Users Seriously
By Patricia Lundy Instagram’s announcement about additional features to Business Profiles follows on the heels of the many changes that the platform has unveiled this past year, including its recent logo makeover.
May 12, 2016
Modeling Wars: 5 Areas of Friction
While we might all agree there are great benefits to modeling processes, decisions, goals, or data, there are major disagreements on modeling methods, including method standards and which object is the most important to
May 10, 2016
Which Approach Is Best When Developing Apps and Processes?
By Jim Sinur Today, there are many options to develop processes and applications. There is great debate in and around modeling representation and even the need to model. But before we get into the representation issues,
May 9, 2016