February 2, 2012
Blogs
Your Life, For Sale on Facebook
Editors Note, This Blog post was originally posted on Sept 22, 2011 By Jim Lundy If 2011 was the year of the Like button for Facebook, 2012 could be called the return of the app. Today at their annual Developer Conf
January 31, 2012
Changing of the Guard at OpenText
By Jim Lundy There isn't much coverage in the press about OpenText as we wrap up the first month of 2012, but there is change afoot in the executive ranks there. OpenText is one of the largest remaining Enterprise Conte
January 30, 2012
CIOs: Buy a Private App Store for Mobile
By Jim Lundy In conversations we have been having with end-user clients lately, one of the hot topics for the CIOs is Mobile, specifically Tablet Computers. They all have to support them, starting with the Executive SuiPreventing Data Loss in Microsoft Word 2011 on your Mac
By Jim Lundy Over the weekend, I had a few problems with Microsoft Word 2011 running on OS X Lion that prompted me to check the settings for Word. Surprise, I found that Word 2011 is not set to automatically create a ba
January 27, 2012
Aragon Research’s Workplace Scenario Steals The Show With Dallas CIOs
By Mike Anderson Two weeks ago in Dallas, I presented our Workplace Scenario to more than 100 CIOs who were at a SIM dinner event the night of the BCS football championship. I had the opportunity to meet many of the C
January 20, 2012
Summarizing Lotusphere 2012 in Three Words: Social, Mobile, Watson
By Jim Lundy It seems that one of the trends over the last five months is that the major tech titans are honing their messaging and upping the quality of their events. That was certainly true this year at IBM’s Lotusp
January 17, 2012
A Tale of Two Tech Titans, IBM and Kodak
Editors Note: This Blog Post was originally published on October 12, 2011. Since then, Kodak has restructured and on January 19th, they filed for bankruptcy after 131 years in business. By Jim Lundy The tale of two 1
January 6, 2012
New Facebook Attack – Act Now to Protect Your Enterprise
By Jim Lundy Enterprises that allow their users to access Facebook via their work PC are now vulnerable, given the huge Ramnit attack that just took place. Enterprises in the UK should be worried, but no one is immune fMy Lunch with Jacob Morgan
Yesterday, I had lunch with someone who I predict is on a fast track to becoming a rock star analyst. His name was Jacob Morgan of Chess Media Group. We had met on Twitter a while back and had agreed that it would be great
December 27, 2011
Printer Ink and Toner Costs Can Impact your Bottomline: Who Cares?
It is a fact that some of the ink you put in an inkjet printer at your office costs more than perfume. More importantly, managing your output fleet can impact your enterprises bottom-line. Who cares? The CIO and his or her
December 19, 2011
Stars Aligning for Tablet Turmoil in 2012
By Mike Anderson 2012 is shaping up to be an exciting year for tablets and the mobile industry overall. The battle, through 2011, has been won, and Apple has taken the prize. With a new leader at Apple, expectations con
December 15, 2011
Salesforce Move will Trigger HCM Merger Wars
By Jim Lundy Salesforce announced today that it is buying Rypple, a Social Performance startup with offices in Canada and San Francisco. Aragon Research will be publishing a full First Cut on this move tomorrow. The ma
December 14, 2011
Jive’s IPO: Social isn’t a Fad Anymore
By Jim Lundy Jive Software went public today and it is a significant milestone for them and for the Enterprise Social Software market. To see how far things have come, all one needs to do is look back two years ago to 200
December 13, 2011
The Tablet Era is Here
By Jim Lundy I've been covering Tablets since before the iPad came out. In fact, I wrote about future eBooks and Digital Paper way back in 2000, seven years before they actually appeared. When it launched last year (no
December 8, 2011
The Aragon Globe – Responding to Market Needs
By Jim Lundy In my time at my former firm (Gartner), I initiated and delivered numerous Magic Quadrants over the years. There is both an art and a science to delivering a market evaluation and it starts with defining an
December 5, 2011
Responding to the Tablet Invasion of Your Workplace
By Mike Anderson I have been involved in the technologies and strategies in the workplace for many years. The changes with us today are more diverse, challenging and exciting than I’ve seen before. We’ve approach
December 4, 2011
Transferring our Blog
Starting today, our Blog is being transferred to our main website. This now puts our premium research, our first cuts and our blog at one site.
December 3, 2011
Tech Titan SAP buys SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
Announced on a Saturday, this deal signifies that the Tech Titans may be loosening their purse strings to make acquisitions that help them with long term growth (see a related Aragon Research First Cut on SuccessFac
November 4, 2011