March 19, 2021
Blogs
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
I Got The COVID Vaccine
by Betsy Burton As I left my appointment after getting my second vaccine, the attending nurse happily said, "make sure to tell people you got vaccinated." So here I am. In recent weeks I have heard several people voi
Introducing Aragon Foresight: Our New Premium Service
by Kalyn Stockman Today is the day… Aragon Research has a brand new offering, and it’s available starting now. Aragon Foresight is a new premium service, offered to Aragon Research clients, that will go beyond the c
March 4, 2021
Microsoft Includes Power Automate in Windows: RPA Market Becomes Subsumed
by Betsy Burton At the end of 2020, we made a prediction that: “By YE 2023, robotic process automation (RPA) will become a standard feature in 75% of infrastructure platforms (iPaaS and on-prem) (75% probability).”
March 1, 2021
Don’t Regret Missing a Great Opportunity – Become a 2021 Transform Sponsor
by Katie Bartenslager Our upcoming virtual Transform Tour event, Transformation via Automation, is approaching and seats are filling up fast! One opportunity that you won’t want to miss is becoming a 202
February 26, 2021
Why You Should Submit Your Free Innovation Award Nomination
by Patricia Knedler March is a special month here at Aragon Research, because it’s the last month of 2021 that you’ll have the chance to submit an award nomination for an Aragon Research Innovation Award. Submission
February 25, 2021
3 Industries Where CXPs Can Be Valuable
by Amy Townsend On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, Aragon Research introduced a new market category, content experience platforms (CXP), in our research note, The Rise of Content Experience Platforms—And Why Your Website
February 24, 2021
Box Buys SignRequest, Puts DocuSign and DropBox on Notice
by Adam Pease and Craig Kennedy In early February, Box announced that it would be acquiring e-signature company SignRequest for a price tag of $55 million. Box offers content management solutions, and with this purchase
Microsoft Viva Will Disrupt the HR Tech Market in 2022
by Jim Lundy This month Microsoft made a clever move and announced new employee experience platform called Viva. Viva leverages both SharePoint and Microsoft teams to offer a new, curated way to engage employees and to
February 18, 2021
February Aragon Cares: Child Advocates of Silicon Valley
by Amy Townsend For our Aragon Cares activity this month, we had the pleasure of making a monetary donation to Child Advocates of Silicon Valley! Who are Child Advocates of Silicon Valley? Child Advocates of Silicon Va
The SolarWinds Hack and the need to Architect your Ecosystem
by Betsy Burton The SolarWinds hack was bad and it is having a growing impact on the IT ecosystem at large. As an enterprise architecture (EA) practitioner, I have long questioned EA practitioners and CIOs about how muc
February 16, 2021
Three Key Areas to Incorporate Enterprise Video Now
by Amy Townsend The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of enterprise video drastically–2020 could truthfully be called “The Year of Video”. Not only has enterprise video empowered collaboration and p
February 11, 2021
Aragon Hot Vendors 2021: Nominations Are Open
by Katie Bartenslager It is that time of year again - Aragon Hot Vendors 2021.Do you know of a company that should be recognized for being noteworthy, innovative, and visionary? Well, it is that time of ye
February 10, 2021
Why HR Leaders Should Care About Digital Labor
By Amy Townsend By 2027, 60% of Global 1000 organizations will have merged their HR department and IT department to support a hybrid workforce. As an HR leader, are you taking the necessary steps to effectively support
February 9, 2021
Adobe Flash End of Life: Shift to HTML5
by Adam Pease The Adobe Flash Player platform, which has managed the loading and streaming of multimedia content on websites for decades, received its last update on December 8th. The writing on the wall for the end of
February 5, 2021