April 1, 2016
Blogs
March 31, 2016
Gartner Veteran Jim Sinur Joins Aragon As Research Fellow
By Jim Lundy True thought leadership is hard to come by. Today, we issued a press release and announced that Gartner veteran Jim Sinur is joining Aragon as our first Aragon Fellow. Jim is a well-known thought leader,
March 30, 2016
Samepage Adds Mobile Messaging, Shifts to Enterprise
By Jim Lundy The market for Mobile Collaboration is heating up—it's the new focal point of Collaboration. Many technology providers are recognizing this, including Samepage, a 2015 Aragon Research Hot Vendor. Thi
March 29, 2016
Instagram: A B2B Marketer’s Friend?
by Patricia Lundy Instagram has been getting flack for its recent updates—even as of this morning, the logout button has disappeared from account settings, disabling a user from logging out of their account. This is e
March 23, 2016
Apple Bolsters Lineup iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7
By Jim Lundy Apple's special event was held on Monday at its Cupertino location. The key takeaway from the event is that it is broadening its iPhone line with a lower-cost model and is shifting to a higher-end iPad
March 21, 2016
Google Jumps Into Marketing: Is Analytics Enough?
By: Patricia Lundy Last week Google announced Google Analytics 360 Suite for enterprise marketers. Currently available in limited Beta, it’s essentially a data center that integrates with your CRM platform to reveal i
March 15, 2016
Enterprise Connect in Four Words: UCC, Video, Mobile, and Innovation
By Jim Lundy Last week I was at Enterprise Connect—#EC16—in Orlando. A solid event, it has become one of the announcement vehicles for the industry. This year, many of the announcements centered on Unified Communic
March 7, 2016
UC Is Dead; UCC Is the Future
By Jim Lundy A few years back when I was still leading the Collaboration team at Gartner, we worked with the UC team and came up with a new term: Unified Communications and Collaboration a.k.a. UCC. That was in 2009 and
February 29, 2016
IBM InterConnect in Four Words: Cloud, IoT, Swift, & Watson
By Jim Lundy We attended IBM's annual InterConnect Customer Event in Las Vegas this week. The event had over 25,000 attendees and twelve different announcements in a number of Cloud related product areas. One of the mo
February 15, 2016
Salesforce Spring ’16: Lightning, Pricing, IoT, and John Hernandez
By Jim Lundy Salesforce held a live event on February 2nd, 2016 to celebrate the launch of its spring 2016 release that is the full instantiation of its new user interface it calls Lightning. Lightning was introduc
February 1, 2016
Unify Analyst Summit: The Future Is Circuit Collaboration PaaS
We attended the Unify Analyst Summit in Bermuda, January 19-22, 2016, and got a chance to spend time with the leadership team. With the Atos acquisition of Unify now closed, the focus is execution on the core strategy whic
January 28, 2016
NFL and Surface Pro vs. United Airlines and iPad
By Jim Lundy Anyone watching the NFL championship games over the weekend could not miss the commentary by the sportscasters about the Surface Pros and the New England Patriots. The comment during the Patriot-Broncos
January 27, 2016
RealPresence Clariti – Polycom’s Move to Software and Services
At the TEAM Polycom event held in Nashville, TN, January 12-14, Polycom unveiled its RealPresence Clariti cloud collaboration platform and its cloud bursting capabilities. Essentially, with Clariti, Polycom has the maki
January 21, 2016
Why People Should Be at the Center of Your Collaboration Strategy
This blog was originally posted on DOCUMENT Strategy. by David Mario Smith The state of collaboration has forever been changed—no longer is the technology provider determining what capabilities people need. People
January 19, 2016
Appcelerator Sold to Axway: Mobile Consolidation Continues
By Jim Lundy One of our predictions for 2016 stated that the mobile market would begin to mature. We have already begun to see this play out, as evidenced by Axway's acquisition of mobile app development provider App
January 8, 2016
Sales: Winning in 2016
By Jim Lundy We are already at the end of the first week of 2016 and the question is this: Is your sales team ready for 2016? Are you falling back on business as usual, or have you developed a winning plan for this year
December 24, 2015
The 2015 Aragon Research Innovation Awards Recap
By Jim Lundy When you watch markets, you get briefed on and evaluate lots of products and services from startups and established technology providers. At our recent 5th annual Aragon Research Holiday Party, we presen
December 10, 2015
Cisco Spark Poised to Compete with Microsoft Skype for Business
By Jim Lundy Cisco unveiled what it has been working on for the last several years—the Cisco Spark platform, which is designed to blend messaging, meetings, and calls into one integrated offering that works seamlessly
December 1, 2015
Microsoft Pricing Surge for Office 365 E5
By Jim Lundy Microsoft has seen what Salesforce has done with pricing - and realized it needs to go higher. On November 30th, Microsoft announced pricing for its newest E5 SKU for Office 365, and while many will call
November 24, 2015