Saugatuck to Host 2nd Annual Cloud Business Summit

After our inaugural event last May, I’m pleased to announce that Saugatuck Technology will be hosting the 2012 Cloud Business Summit on November 14, 2012, at the Westin Times Square in New York City. We are delighted to again bring together CIOs, CTOs and senior business leaders from mid-to-large enterprises – from across a range of industries – to explore how they can and are realizing value from the Business Cloud.

As the event website and announcement Press Release put out earlier today highlight, a key theme at this year’s event will be the emergence of the new Master Architecture – what Saugatuck is calling "CMSA" (as in Cloud, Mobile, Social and Analytics). Unlike Master Architectures of the past, where a single technology has dominated (e.g., mainframes, PCs, internet), today's new Master Architecture leverages multiple technologies and platforms, and loosely-coupled approaches, to unlock previously untapped business value. In this environment, innovation is clearly on the rise, as companies accelerate investments in support of a evolved vision for business computing – what Saugatuck is calling the Boundary-free Enterprise™.

Readers can explore a number of recently published Saugatuck research pieces (all available as Lens 360 blog posts) that explore these concepts further including:

Saugatuck is pleased to announce that both SAP and IBM have returned as Platinum sponsors in 2012. New event partners this year include Dimension Data and Progress Software as Gold sponsors, OrangeScape as a Silver sponsor, and Information Management and Sand Hill Group as Media sponsors. Within the next couple of weeks, we will announce several additional sponsors as well.

Saugatuck is very excited about the senior business and IT executives that it has assembled as speakers and panelists at the event – including Rich Roseman, VP and CIO at News Corp., Michael Lemberger, VP at American Express, Gary Lynch, Managing Director at Marsh, and Andrew Stokes, Chief Scientist at Deutsche Bank AG, among others. Over the next few weeks, Saugatuck will announce a number of additional featured speakers and panelists who will be joining the program.

For those interested in nominating themselves, we have opened up a Call for Speakers – and invite CIOs and C-level IT and business executives from large enterprises to qualify as a VIP panelist at our premiere industry event.

For more information about the event, or to register early and take advantage of the Early Bird Special pricing, go to www.cloudbusinesssummit.com, or reach out to Chris MacGregor at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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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.

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