Yesterday, Saugatuck announced its third annual Cloud Business Summit, which will be held this year on September 25, 2013 at the Westin Times Square in New York City.
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Bill McNee
Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging industry trends and disruptive technologies driving change in enterprise IT. Over the past few years, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing. More recently, he has been actively involved in launching the firm’s CIO-targeted Cloud migration / leadership practice.
Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business / IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business / IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. Prior to this role, he was a lead analyst focusing on enterprise business applications, and asset management strategies. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, financial management and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research.
A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of business and IT executives, and vendor clients around the globe.
Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus, and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University. Since 2001, he has been a Board or Advisory Board member for the Westport Public Library.
Follow Mr. McNee on Twitter at @billmcnee.
Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business / IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business / IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. Prior to this role, he was a lead analyst focusing on enterprise business applications, and asset management strategies. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, financial management and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research.
A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of business and IT executives, and vendor clients around the globe.
Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus, and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University. Since 2001, he has been a Board or Advisory Board member for the Westport Public Library.
Follow Mr. McNee on Twitter at @billmcnee.
This week, I head out to San Francisco for the SIIA’s annual All About the Cloud (AATC) conference, where I will deliver a featured presentation on Day 1 of the event, and participate in the closing analyst panel on Day 2 – and where we have a schedule of more than 15 client meetings lined up.
But before I go, I wanted to share highlights from a terrific briefing that we had last week with Adaptive Planning – who is clearly in break-out growth mode. Not only is the firm growing at a 80 percent plus annualized clip (up from 50 percent in 2011), while remaining cash-flow positive, they have plenty of powder still dry from their early 2012 venture financing led by Norwest Venture Partners – with about $20 million of the $22 million still in the bank.
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On Tuesday, March 26, Saugatuck’s Alex Bakker and Mike West joined Bill.com in an SIIA webcast on the rapidly-evolving Cloud category of Mobile Financial Management. Cloud-based financial applications are helping businesses streamline the process of paying bills, projecting cash flow, and conducting business transactions. And it is no secret that companies are taking the next step to deliver these solutions via mobile devices in order to help executives manage their businesses – anytime and anywhere.
Among the timely and urgent topics Saugatuck covered in this highly-informative Webcast were:
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Earlier today, Saugatuck had a good call with Jason Blessing, the new CEO at Plex Systems, who joined the company in early 2013. Saugatuck has been tracking Plex for more than 5 years – as we have long viewed it as an innovator in Cloud-based business software targeting primarily discrete manufacturing. While the firm has a strong heritage in the auto sector, we were pleased to hear that Jason has several new initiatives underway to help it not only strengthen the core but broaden the firm’s focus to appeal to other manufacturing sectors as well.
Jason was previously part of the leadership team at Taleo, which was acquired by Oracle in mid-2012. He brings to the job some very strong (and relevant) product and general management leadership skills, given his experience is creating, growing and scaling a Cloud-based apps business. As he explained in the call, in June 2012 the firm was acquired by Francisco Partners (from Apax), a San Fran based PE player. In December, an additional $30 million infusion was made by Accel Partners.
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Saugatuck Technology is pleased to announce that our 2013 Cloud Business Summit will be held on September 25, 2013 at the Westin Times Square in New York City.
Now in its third year, our 2013 event will maintain our tradition of C-level discussion and guidance regarding how midsize and large enterprises in all industries are innovating with, and profiting from, the Cloud – whether it be new types of business, new ways of doing business, or new businesses entirely.
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