September 14, 2012
Blogs
September 12, 2012
iPhone 5 – Time to Give up your Blackberry
By Jim Lundy Apple announced the iPhone 5 today and we live tweeted the event. We will be covering the updates to Apple's Ecosystem, primarily iOS 6 in some separate First Cuts. Our take on the announcement today is tha
September 11, 2012
Dreamforce before Salesforce went Big
By Jim Lundy Back in 2008, Dreamforce, Salesforce's annual customer and partner event, was not that big. I know because that year, I was begged by the Gartner Account Executive to attend Dreamforce, including a customer
September 10, 2012
iPhone 5 – LIfe before the iPhone
By Jim Lundy The iPhone 5 will be announced this week in San Francisco. The flurry of activity leading up to it is palpable and many Apple competitors have been trying (and failing) to steal the limelight from the nex
September 5, 2012
Celebrating our One Year Anniversary at Aragon Research
By Jim Lundy As we head into the fall of 2012, it has been just over a year since we announced Aragon Research. It was on Friday, August 12th, 2011, that I finished up at Saba, had a great going away party, hugged the E
August 30, 2012
IBM and the new Era of Social HCM
By Jim Lundy Earlier this week IBM announced that it was buying HCM provider Kenexa for $1.26 Billion. We will be publishing our First Cut with detailed analysis of that deal tomorrow. We see this signaling the acce
August 29, 2012
Apple’s Lawsuit Victory Over Samsung: Will It Stifle Innovation?
By Mike Anderson Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung has been big news. On August 24 the jury ruled that Samsung had violated some of Apple’s patents, and awarded Apple more than $1 billion. The legal wrangling is far
August 23, 2012
Microsoft Surface – Windows 8 for $199?
By Jim Lundy The Microsoft Surface isn't a secret anymore; it is coming to market in October. There is lots of speculation around this, particularly since it has taken Microsoft so long to respond to Tablets, such as th
August 17, 2012
RIM Futures: Exit Strategy and Contingency Plans
By Mike Anderson RIM (Research in Motion) once ruled in smartphones. With BlackBerry it provided secure wireless email, a great keyboard-based user experience, and a simple and popular instant messaging system. The abi
August 9, 2012
Gamification takes time to do right
By Jim Lundy A funny thing happens in Silicon Valley. Venture capital-funded firms are great at getting their message out. They want to do well and to hire talented people, so they make a lot of noise to get your attent
August 3, 2012
Jim Holincheck exits Gartner for Workday: A Farewell but not Goodbye
By Jim Lundy In case you hadn't heard, Gartner Managing Vice President Jim Holincheck left Gartner in July and joined HCM provider Workday. So when Jim announced via Twitter that he was joining Workday, I watched anAmazon and the Mobile Ecosystem Wars
By Mike Anderson Amazon is getting a lot of press lately, focused on rumors of new devices and capabilities that pit it against mobile ecosystem leaders. With the Kindle Fire, it has carved out a chunk of the tablet mar
August 2, 2012
Cloud: Is Your Cloud Vendor Ready for You?
By Jim Lundy You can't read a technology blog today without getting hit with cloud. The question that is asked most often is, "Are you ready for the cloud?" I'd like to suggest that you flip it and see if your vendor
July 27, 2012
Tablet Wars Ignite Users versus IT
By Mike Anderson The Tablet Wars are a highly visible force in the rapidly evolving mobile world, and they are heating up. The phenomenal success of Apple’s iPad has resulted in massive wave of competition as users fl
July 26, 2012
Mountain Lion Consensus: Smooth Operator
By Jim Lundy Mountain Lion, the new Apple Operating System version released by Apple today, is a hot topic and upgrades are underway by many users as we speak. I upgraded a Mac in our inventory earlier to
July 24, 2012
Office 2013 Preview Sum in 3 Words: Tablet, Windows 8, SharePoint
By Jim Lundy Microsoft unveiled a preview of its latest versions of Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365 at a Press Conference in San Francisco on Monday, July 16th, 2012. We just published an Aragon Research First Cut
July 17, 2012
Marissa Mayer: Sheryl Sandberg Set Stage for Her Move to Yahoo
by Jim Lundy Last year I was at a Silicon Valley conference where Marissa Mayer gave the closing keynote, about performance management at Google. It was a straightforward, highly effective speech, and she delivered it w
July 13, 2012
The iPad as a video and web conferencing device
By Jim Lundy The last two days at our Aragon Research offsite, we had a need for video sharing with a remote colleague and we did not have a room based or dedicated video conferencing system. To make a long story short,
July 9, 2012
Tablet Wars: User Experience Expectations are High
By Jim Lundy In the Tablet Wars that are coming, the expectations of users of how a Tablet behaves are very high. Just ask anyone that has used an iPad and then tried to use something else. This blog post is the result
July 5, 2012