April 12, 2018
February 6, 2017
Google, LogMeIn, Polycom, and Slack Make Major Collaboration Moves
By Jim Lundy (Aragon Research) – 2017 is starting out fast as Collaboration providers make moves to position themselves to buyers. During the first week of February 2017, Google, LogMeIn, Polycom, and Slack all made an
October 25, 2016
Polycom’s New CEO and Product Arsenal Promise Digital Success
By Jim Lundy We attended Polycom's PACE Analyst Event last week in New York City with the Polycom Executive Team, including Polycom's New CEO Mary McDowell. She was recently announced after Siris Capital took Polycom p
April 18, 2016
UCC Consolidation: Mitel Buys Polycom for $1.96 Billion
Summary: Mitel announced that it is buying Polycom for U.S. $1.96 Billion. The deal reflects the continued consolidation in the UCC Market and the growing role of activist investor Elliot Management. To download a PDF of
January 27, 2016
RealPresence Clariti – Polycom’s Move to Software and Services
At the TEAM Polycom event held in Nashville, TN, January 12-14, Polycom unveiled its RealPresence Clariti cloud collaboration platform and its cloud bursting capabilities. Essentially, with Clariti, Polycom has the maki
November 23, 2015
Innovation at Polycom: New Products Poised to Disrupt UCC Market
Innovation at Polycom: New Products Poised to Disrupt UCC Market Author: David Mario Smith, Jim Lundy Date: November 23, 2015 Topic: Collaboration, UCC Research Note Number: 2015-44 Issue: How will the UCC Mar
October 8, 2015
Polycom Has an Extreme Makeover with Wave of New Products
By Jim Lundy I attended Polycom’s announcement this week in New York City at the Polycom facilities where they announced a wave of new products that will transform the workplace. These products and services are a re
September 3, 2015
Polycom Makeover Continues with New Products and Leadership
By Jim Lundy David Smith and I attended Polycom's Industry Analyst PACE meeting this week and we left with a feeling that the extreme makeover that Peter Leav described earlier this year is well underway. It is always i
March 19, 2015
Skype, Polycom, and the Collaborative Workplace
By Jim Lundy The future of the collaborative workplace is all about making it easier to connect with others, particularly those who are not in the same location. As we all know, people are constantly looking for easier
February 20, 2015
Team Polycom Event in 4 Words: Execution, Microsoft, Innovation, CEO
By Jim Lundy We attended Polycom's annual Team Polycom partner event last week in Orlando and we were struck with the feeling that things have changed significantly in 12 months at Polycom. Much of the change has to
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
November 28, 2012
Polycom Takes Bold Steps to Transform the Video Era
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Authors: Mike Anderson, Jim Lundy Topic: Collaboration Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Summary: On Monday October 8th, 20
May 27, 2022
HP Dives Back Into Video Conferencing With Poly Acquisition
By Jim Lundy Hybrid work and the potential for a surge in demand for collaboration prompted Hewlett Packard (HP) to dive back into the collaboration market and buy Poly for $1.7 Billion. We say dive back in because it w
February 12, 2020
Poly Earnings Fallout: CEO Joe Burton is Out
by Jim Lundy Poly had a bad earnings report on February 4th. In fact, revenue was down $118 million on a year over year basis. As a result, last Wednesday, the stock price of enterprise headset manufacturer Poly fell to
January 28, 2020
Poly Adds Collaboration Veteran Carl Wiese to Its Ranks
by Jim Lundy Revenge is a dish best served cold. Poly CEO Joe Burton continues to add executives who formerly worked with him at Cisco. Last week he announced Cisco veteran Carl Wiese as executive vice president, chief
October 15, 2019
Poly Re-Establishes Leadership with Studio X Series Launch
by Jim Lundy There has been a lot of change at Poly (formerly Polycom) over the last three years. Those turbulent times have come to an end under the leadership of CEO Joe Burton and his handpicked team of executives. T
June 5, 2019
H.264 SVC – Business and IT Glossary
Business and IT Glossary > H.264 SVC H.264 SVC Glossary Trending Terms Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is part of the H.264 MPEG-4 Advanced Video Compression (AVC) standard. It automatically adjusts the size o
January 21, 2019
The Aragon Research Globe™ for Web and Video Conferencing, 2019
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January 16, 2019
Bose, Five9, Microsoft, and Pexip Make Moves in the UCC Market
by Jim Lundy In 2019, the unified communications and collaboration market will shift to be more focused on people and less focused on specific channels. Aragon has termed this new category people-centric collaboration.
October 17, 2018