June 5, 2013
Blogs
May 29, 2013
Enterprise Video: Healthcare Use Cases Are Still Being Discovered
In our recent research note titled "The Perfect Storm in Enterprise Video: Act Now or Get Left Behind", we identified a new era of Pervasive Video. This blog focuses on the Video usage trends we are seeing in the Healthcar
May 28, 2013
Video Where it Matters and Polycom
By Jim Lundy We visited Polycom’s new executive experience center (EEC) this week and got a chance to see several demos highlighting specific use cases for video enabled business applications (VEBAs). Polycom is focus
May 27, 2013
Learning Podcast – Learning Resurgence in 2013
Welcome to our first Aragon Research Podcast an overview of our Learning and Social HCM Coverage. We are the experts in Learning and Knowledge and we know what it takes to develop a comprehensive Learning program. Ou
May 22, 2013
Yahoo Throws Down a Gauntlet in Storage Wars, Targets Facebook
By Jim Lundy I turned on the TV in my hotel room yesterday and bam! - there was Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on Good Morning America pitching the new, revamped Flickr photo-sharing site (Yahoo has owned Flickr since 2005).
May 16, 2013
The Return of Mzinga in Learning and Social Marketing
By Jim Lundy We watch and analyze markets and two of those include Learning as part of Talent and Social HCM, as well as the rising category of Social Business. When you watch markets, it also involves watching technolo
May 8, 2013
Adobe Creative Suite Goes Cloud as Microsoft Hedges Bets with Office
By Jim Lundy Adobe made headlines the other day when they announced that all future enhancements to their Creative Suite will only be made on its Creative Cloud version only. Note, they are still selling Creative Suite
May 2, 2013
IBM Impact 2013: Making Business Mobile
By Mike Anderson IBM held its Impact 2013 event in Las Vegas this week. More than 9,000 people attended, and the interest as well as energy levels were high. Behind the multitude of sessions that addressed all areas of
April 30, 2013
Sales Execution: There are no shortcuts to Success
By Jim Lundy IBM CEO Virginia Rometti had to shuffle her sales staff last week after IBM's hardware division missed its sales number by 17%. That isn't a small miss. There are many lessons learned from IBM's move that o
April 11, 2013
Windows 8 and the PC Industry Both Fail To Impress
By Mike Anderson News from the PC industry has been bleak, with reports that sales volumes not only declined but that they have fallen by more than 10%. Microsoft has felt its share of the pain, and Windows 8 has t
April 10, 2013
iPhone 5S: Rumors versus Predictions
By Jim Lundy It is that time of year and all the Apple watchers are loading up their blogs with iPhone 5S rumors to drive viewers to their respective sites. There is no doubt that the iPhone 5S is coming. That said,
April 7, 2013
Gaming, Tablets and Learning: What a difference a Year Makes
By Jim Lundy Having covered Corporate Learning for years, I’ve become a student of Gaming and Simulations. I was very surprised to see the enhanced quality of some games on my iPad 4. This was after having watched the
April 4, 2013
Facebook Home: Good for Users and Android; Bad for Google and Business
by Mike Anderson There has been an amazing level of speculation and hype about Facebook introducing their own mobile smartphone. Even though Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly denied that making the phone hardware either ma
March 28, 2013
BlackBerry Overhaul Delivers in 2013: Collapse or Comeback?
By Mike Anderson RIM, now BlackBerry, has taken a beating that has done nothing but worsen since the introduction of Apple’s iPhone in 2007. It’s response in 2012 has resulted in nothing short of a massive overhaul,
March 26, 2013
SumTotal Beefs Up Executive Team to Leverage its Learning Heritage
By Jim Lundy SumTotal Systems was taken private in 2009 by Vista Equity Partners for roughly $160 Million. Lots of things happened after that deal. It moved its Company Headquarters to Gainesville, Florida and it hired
March 25, 2013
Enterprise Connect 2013: Shifting from UC to Video
By Jim Lundy I attended the Enterprise Connect 2013 event this week in Orlando. If last year was about VOIP, this year the entire focus was on video. A majority of technology providers that were present at Enterprise Co
March 14, 2013
WordPress and the Battle to become your CMS
By Jim Lundy There is a battle raging for the control of your website and the growth of Open Source CMS providers like WordPress is exploding (note, CMS is also referred to as Web Content Management (WCM)). WCM Vendors
March 6, 2013
Social Learning – Going beyond the LMS
By Jim Lundy We just published our Learning Trends for 2013 and one thing is clear: the days of only focusing on the LMS are winding down. The rise of informal Learning - which is called Social Learning is here. Learnin
March 1, 2013
Saba in Transition: Five Facts You Should Know
By Jim Lundy Saba Software announced today that Founder and CEO Bobby Yazdani was stepping down. This isn't the first time that Bobby has stepped down from Saba. He stepped down from the CEO role in the early 2000s and
February 26, 2013