March 14, 2014
Blogs
March 13, 2014
Video Goes Mobile: Enabling The Mobile Workforce
As I’m finalizing our Aragon Research Globe on the Video Content Management market, I’ve been going over the impact of video on Digital Business, business processes and the impact of video on the new mobile worker. In
March 11, 2014
Sell me this Pen – Your Marketing is Doomed without a Sales Strategy
By Jim Lundy The closing line of my presentation last night at the SV Marketing Forum was "sell me this pen." It's also the closing line in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street. It's a great line, but many don't know wher
February 27, 2014
Google’s Android Problem and the Opportunity for Microsoft
By Jim Lundy Mobile World Congress was the talk of Twitter this week, as the annual event in Barcelona featured lots of announcements including ones from major hardware providers, such as Lenovo, Huawei and Samsung. Mic
February 19, 2014
Lync Isn’t Free
So this is Microsoft Lync week with Lync Conference 2014 fully in progress. However, despite all the press and hype - there is one thing I need to call out - actually, scream out - Lync isn't free! Ok there I said it.
February 12, 2014
Aragon at 2.5 Years; Growth, Clients, Thought Leadership
By Jim Lundy It has been a busy time here at Aragon Research. This weekend (February 16th, 2014) marks our 2.5 year anniversary. There is much to tell, but in a word - we have been growing, mainly because we have been exec
February 5, 2014
IBM Connect 2014: Recasting Mail and Connections
While there were some interesting announcements at IBM Connect 2014, a couple things that stood out to me were the rebranding of IBM’s collaboration capabilities under Connections and the new social email capabilities of
December 20, 2013
CMOs of Silicon Valley – Ten you can’t Miss
By Jim Lundy In the five and a half years I've lived back in Silicon Valley, the one thing that has jumped out at me is how demanding the role of the CMO has become. In fact, with the tech boom is moving at a furious
November 21, 2013
Dreamforce And The Internet Of Customers
Attendee numbers for this year's Dreamforce conference was said to be upwards of a 130,000 people. Regardless of that count, being there in person, I can definitely say, it was a mass of humanity. Most vendors/sponsors lin
November 11, 2013
WebRTC Update – Still No Consensus On A MTI Video Codec
The IETF held a meeting in Vancouver this past week to decide on the MTI (mandatory to implement) video codec for WebRTC. The debate pitted H.264 vs VP8 as potential candidates to be the default video codec for WebRTC. Rep
October 24, 2013
Apple iPad Event Summarized in Four Words: iPad, Mac, Free Software
By Jim Lundy Apple had its second fall event (Apple iPad Event) on October 22nd in San Francisco and delivered on most of the speculation on what they would announce. In many ways, they went further. This blog post su
October 23, 2013
Cisco Collaboration Summit Keynote Video Summary
Today, Cisco SVP Rowan Trollope gave his Cisco Collaboration Summit Keynote. There were a number of new announcements and we expect more before the event concludes. At Aragon, we made the call that the pervasive video e
October 12, 2013
Social HCM – Video and Profiles Emerge
As I sit on the plane, returning from HR Technology and SuccessFactors SuccessConnect 2013 conferences in Las Vegas, I thought of a couple extra themes that emerged. HR Technology was held at Manadalay Bay, while Succ
October 11, 2013
Cloud Migration in HCM and ERP: Start with a Strategy
By Jim Lundy I've been in Las Vegas all week at two events and was wondering if this issue would come up and it did. It has to do with Cloud and migrating legacy applications to the Cloud. First, I have covered multiple
October 2, 2013
Peoplefluent Wisdom Summarized in 4 Words: CEO, Social, Mobile, Video
By Jim Lundy We attended the Peoplefluent Wisdom Conference last week in Orlando. There was a lot that occurred in our short time at the event. In fact, the event itself was well executed. It was held at the Disney Yach
October 1, 2013
Innovation and the PC Era at Microsoft: Ballmer Watched as Apple Grew
By Jim Lundy This post, when you break it down, is about innovation. The contestants are Apple and Microsoft. Steve Ballmer is now a short-timer at Microsoft, and he is due to retire as CEO in less than 12 months.
September 24, 2013
Oracle OpenWorld 2013 – Why The Best Demo I’ve Ever Had Wasn’t A Demo
Oracle OpenWorld has taken over San Francisco this week! Often we go to technology conferences and are clamored with multiple demos showing the speeds and feeds of new products. And as we all have witnessed, sometimes the
September 20, 2013
Summarizing BoxWorks in Three Words: Scale, Apps, IPO
By Jim Lundy We attended Box's third annual customer and analyst BoxWorks conference this week, which was held at the Hilton in San Francisco. It was a far different event than last year in a myriad of ways, particularl
September 19, 2013
Mobile Content Management can’t be ignored
By Jim Lundy The world of content management is changing and changing fast. The Mobile Content Management (MCM) era is here, and it's going to cause disruption in multiple markets. This post talks about MCM and our for
September 11, 2013