February 21, 2019
Blogs
February 20, 2019
Time For New Business Perspectives: Looking Outside-In
by Betsy Burton Digital business fundamentally changes the way that business leaders need to engage with their partners and customers. The challenge is that the most significant issues they face are about changing their
Meet Aragon Research’s February 2019 Employee of the Month
by Patricia Lundy Welcome to our Aragon Research Employee of the Month blog series, where we will be highlighting the notable accomplishments of our hardworking team. In this very first blog in the series, we’d like t
February 19, 2019
Slack Makes the App Design Journey Seamless with Block Kit
by Samra Anees Slack is all about integrations, and it just made them more seamless with the release of Block Kit. This feature aims to make Slack more accessible to app builders by providing consistency across devices
February 15, 2019
Amazon Pulls Out of $3 Billion New York Headquarters Plan
by Samra Anees People have anticipated Amazon's new campus opening in Long Island City, New York for months, but on February 14th, Amazon pulled out of the plan due to concerns that some politicians would be uncooperati
February 13, 2019
LinkedIn Copies Facebook with Live Video
by Jim Lundy LinkedIn announced the beta of its live video feature, LinkedIn Live, which will allow users to live broadcast events or to simply share videos. This blog examines this move—which most consider a late mov
February 4, 2019
Why Did the U.S. Government Indict Huawei?
by Jim Lundy The truth is chasing Huawei and on January 29th, the U.S. federal government indicted Huawei on 29 counts for lying about its financial dealings with Iran and for stealing designs for a robot arm from T-Mob
January 30, 2019
[Vlog] Can AI Democratize the Legal System with e-Discovery?
Produced by Adrian Bowles, PhD "The reason that the legal system is so expensive isn't because it takes a lot of time looking at the relevant documents; it's the amount of time and amount of money you have to spend look
January 24, 2019
2019 Hot Vendors: 5 Hot Questions, Answered
by Katie Woodford We just wrapped up the end of the year honoring 2018’s Hot Vendor, Innovation, and Women in Tech award recipients at Transform 18, but it’s that time of year again to open this year’s Hot Vendor
Cyber war Flashback: the Huawei Hacks of Cisco and Nortel
by Jim Lundy Huawei is under fire and has been accused by many of being a spy for its home country of China. This week, Huawei increased its PR game by claiming that no one can prove that it is spying for China. However
Are Voice Biometrics Ready for Primetime Authentication?
by Adrian Bowles, PhD I was asked recently whether synthetic speech poses a danger in a world where voice is increasingly used to authenticate identity. First, we need to be careful with terminology. Synthetic speech
January 18, 2019
How Can Apple Recover from Disappointing Sales in China?
by Jim Lundy Apple has had one of the largest revenue growth runs of any firm in the last 20 years, primarily due to one thing: the iPhone. However, Apple CEO Tim Cook recently warned investors that it will miss its rev
January 17, 2019
Salesforce in Talks to Buy ClickSoftware to Own Its Field Service
by Jim Lundy This blog was last updated on August 8th, 2019. On January 16th, 2019, it was reported via Reuters that Salesforce is in talks to buy Israeli and Boston-based ClickSoftware for U.S. $1.5 billion. This
Hot Vendor Throwback: A Look at 5 Key Categories from 2018
by Katie Woodford, featuring Aragon analyst insights In 2018, Aragon Research continued its tradition of honoring noteworthy, visionary, and innovative technology providers and published its sixth annual series of Hot V
January 16, 2019
Bose, Five9, Microsoft, and Pexip Make Moves in the UCC Market
by Jim Lundy In 2019, the unified communications and collaboration market will shift to be more focused on people and less focused on specific channels. Aragon has termed this new category people-centric collaboration.
January 11, 2019
Digital Transformation and 10 New Digital Categories
by Jim Lundy Since running product teams at Xerox and helping to invent the MFP (multifunction peripheral) category for copiers and printers, I have been a student of category creation. I also helped to create categorie
January 8, 2019
Cyberwar and 5G: The U.S. and Its Allies Take on Huawei
by Jim Lundy The recent arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada has brought to light another vector in the cyberwars. It has to do with 5G, the new cellular standard coming online in 2019 and 2020. The U.S. and
December 21, 2018
Is Robotic Process Automation a Bubble Ready to Burst?
by Jim Sinur While some look at the robotic process automation (RPA) market’s growth—plus the strong influx of capital—and see a great opportunity, others predict that RPA's bubble is ready to burst. These views a
Lifesize Challenges Zoom with New 4K Video Conferencing
by Jim Lundy This blog was updated on August 29th, 2019 The market for web and video conferencing just got better—better as in much higher quality. Last week, Lifesize announced both a 4K camera and a 4K service th
December 19, 2018