December 22, 2023
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October 31, 2023
First Cuts: Cisco Webex Powers Up Their AI Product Story
By Jim Lundy Topic:Artificial Intelligence and Unified Communications and Collaboration, Intelligent Video Conferencing Issue: How will AI offerings, including Generative AI, impact how people collabora
September 25, 2023
Cisco Buys Security Firm Splunk for $28 Billion – Did It Overpay?
By Jim Lundy Cisco announced a $28 billion cash deal to buy Cyber Security firm Splunk. The deal is roughly six times Splunk’s revenue – and a 30% premium over its current stock price. Cisco is in a race to
July 26, 2023
Network Resilience Coalition—Making the Network Safer
By: Craig Kennedy Network Resilience Coalition—Making the Network Safer On Tuesday July 25th, 2023, Cisco hosted a webinar announcing the creation of the Network Resilience Coalition, an association of le
June 22, 2023
Cisco Live 2023: The Transformation of Cisco Under Chuck Robbins
By Jim Lundy Cisco Live 2023: The Transformation of Cisco Under Chuck Robbins I attended my 20th Cisco Live event this year and it's clear that Cisco is now starting to fire on all cylinders. While we'll have other
February 10, 2020
Cisco Collaboration Doubles Down on Artificial Intelligence
by Jim Lundy Cisco just held its Cisco Live Event in Barcelona as well as its annual analyst meeting. While there have been many product updates in the the Webex product family over the last year, it is Cisco's strategi
August 7, 2019
Vonage Buys Conversational AI Provider Over.ai
by Samra Anees Yesterday, on the same day that Cisco announced it was buying voice analytics provider Voicea, Vonage announced that it acquired Over.ai, a conversational AI provider that offers an AI-powered agent with
January 24, 2019
Cyber war Flashback: the Huawei Hacks of Cisco and Nortel
by Jim Lundy Huawei is under fire and has been accused by many of being a spy for its home country of China. This week, Huawei increased its PR game by claiming that no one can prove that it is spying for China. However
August 24, 2016
Cisco Gets Smaller – Begins Shift to Software and IOT
By Jim Lundy Cisco announced its second largest round of staff cuts - over 5,500 people on August 17th, the day it announced its quarterly earnings. It also announced a $700 Million Charge against earnings. While Cisc
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
December 11, 2012
Building the Aragon Research Globe for Real-time Collaboration
By Jim Lundy The year was 2004 and it was then that it became clear how pervasive Web Conferencing was becoming. That was the year that Lou Latham and I authored the very first Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing. Of co
July 13, 2012
The iPad as a video and web conferencing device
By Jim Lundy The last two days at our Aragon Research offsite, we had a need for video sharing with a remote colleague and we did not have a room based or dedicated video conferencing system. To make a long story short,
June 29, 2012
Microsoft Buys Yammer for 1.2 Billion- Race for Social Enterprise
Microsoft Buys Yammer for 1.2 Billion; Validates Race for the Social Enterprise To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Note: Aragon Research also conducted a Webinar on this acquisition. To download the slides
June 15, 2012
Cisco Live Summarized in Four Words: Execution, Network, Cloud, Jabber
By Jim Lundy Cisco held its annual Cisco Live Networking Education Event this week and we were in attendance at the San Diego Convention Center. Cisco had over 17,000 customers and partners in attendance as well as a n
May 21, 2012
The Consumerization of Voice and Video
By Jim Lundy Consumerization has arrived in the realtime video and voice collaboration space (aka real time collaboration or UC&C). Consumers can do things today that are as good or nearly as good as the features
April 20, 2012
Cisco Makes Jabber Free, Sets Stage for UCC Battle with Microsoft Lync
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration, Mobile Issues:: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosys
February 2, 2012
Cisco focuses on Collaboration
Editors Note: This Blog Post was originally published on November 18th, 2011. By Jim Lundy I've covered Cisco for years and this week attended their Collaboration Analyst and Partner Summit in Miami. We published an
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 Sui
November 17, 2011
Cisco Gets Serious about Collaboration
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration, Social Software Issues: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? How will Social Software tech
November 9, 2011