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Messaging Battle Heats Up Between Apple, Facebook and Google: Enterprises...
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...
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Siemens and 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...
View ArticleBiba Aims To Disrupt With New Mobile Communications App
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Summary: Biba Systems’ release of its new...
View ArticleGoogle Adds Voice to Hangouts, But Steps Backward On Interoperability And...
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Summary: Google, by adding phone calls but...
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Is UC Old School, Going Through Growing Pains Or Just About To Graduate?
UC is an enabler of social collaboration UC (Unified Communications) has been declared a maturing market by many industry experts. However, is what we are calling a maturing market really UC? I’ve been...
View ArticleVideo Codec Wars Heat Up: Google And Vidyo Dance Together On WebRTC
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Collaboration Issue: What are the trends impacting collaboration in the enterprise? Summary: Vidyo’s partnership with Google to...
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Wearable Computing – The Smartwatch And The App Personality Matrix
Wearable computing is about to change mobile in ways we haven’t thought of yet. However, devices without apps are honestly just soulless pieces of hardware that have no real purpose. Infuse devices...
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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...
View ArticleBox Notes And The Ongoing Convergence In Collaboration
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Summary: Box’s announcement of Box Notes moves...
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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...
View ArticleWebRTC 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...
View ArticleIBM To Buy Fiberlink in Bid For EMM Leadership
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Mobile Issue: Who are the mobile providers and how will they compete? Summary: IBM’s planned acquisition of Fiberlink signals a...
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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...
View ArticlePGi Expands Market Reach with Powwownow Acquisition
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: David Mario Smith Topic: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they compete? Summary: PGi’s acquisition of Powwownow...
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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...
View ArticleLync 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...
View ArticleVideo 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...
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Enterprise Connect Summarized In 4 Words: Cloud, WebRTC, Video, Business
There were some major announcements at the Enterprise Connect conference, which was held at the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center in Orlando,FL. Having gone to this show since back when it was called...
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Saba Summit In Three Words: Talent, Cloud, Predictive
At the Saba @Work Summit held in Orlando’s Royal Pacific Resort hotel, there was an energetic group of customers eager to learn about all the new Saba developments. The Saba Cloud Talent Management...
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Huawei Global Summit: Focusing On The Connected World
Several hundred industry analyst peers gathered in Shenzhen, China for the Huawei Global Analyst Summit this past week April 23-25. Huawei was indeed a very gracious host. While the summit covered...
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