July 18, 2013
Blogs
July 11, 2013
Microsoft Reorg 2013: The End of the Microsoft Office Division
By Jim Lundy Microsoft announced its 2013 restructuring today and with it came a few departures, namely the President of the Microsoft Office Division, Kurt DelBene. Very little mention was made of Kurt's departure, e
July 4, 2013
Cloud Computing – Making Money got harder thanks to Oracle and Salesforce
By Jim Lundy Oracle and Salesforce just made Cloud Computing harder for everyone else. What? Yes, Oracle, by giving some incredible pricing to Salesforce for its Oracle Database offering, just made the business of Cloud
June 21, 2013
The Journey Beyond UC: Social, Real-time, and Business Processes
Siemens Enterprise Communications announced at its analyst summit this week in Denver, Colorado, a new direction for the company in real-time and Social collaboration, with a new initiative code named Project Ansible. The
June 19, 2013
MacBook Air 2013 – Three Reasons it is the new Laptop Standard
By Jim Lundy Last week at Apple's WWDC, Apple announced new models of its pioneering MacBook Air laptop computer. There was so much focus on iOS 7 at that event that most seem to have missed what we feel may be a new
June 12, 2013
Cisco Collaboration US in Three Words: Cloud, Collaboration, Mobile
By Jim Lundy For four weeks in April and May, I was on the road sharing Aragon's views of Collaboration at the Cisco Collaboration US Tour. Lane Cooper of Network World moderated the events and they spanned eight
June 11, 2013
Apple WWDC 2013 Recap: Apple is Innovating
By Jim Lundy Apple held its keynote at its annual Worldwide Developer conference yesterday. The keynote by CEO Tim Cook was broadcast live via Apple.com, a first for Apple. This blog post talks about some of the key obsGovernment Espionage will Slow the Migration to Public Cloud
By Jim Lundy We have written about Government sponsored espionage in the past and at the same time we also cover Cloud, including Public Cloud providers. Much of it was focused on attacks on high tech companies in the a
June 5, 2013
Messaging Battle Heats Up Between Apple, Facebook and Google
by Jim Lundy Messaging trends in the consumer space are often a precursor to what will happen in the enterprise once critical mass is reached. Instant messaging was a consumer messaging application that became so en
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