Enterprise IT Leadership
Author: Ron Exler More and more enterprises of all sizes and types are beginning to pursue Big Data projects for a variety of reasons. While implementations differ based on the enterprise, the technologies and providers used, and other factors, there are ...
Author: Brian Dooley The current mobile ecosystems, principally in Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, have served the needs of rapid BYOD development well, but their utility is beginning to fracture. A monolithic experience is useful for initial growth, b ...
Author: Alex Bakker The Boundary-free Enterprise™ relies on Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics, and Integration as the primary forces that will enable a new era of the relationship between business and IT. Though all these forces together are having a prof ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill and Alex Bakker Ongoing inquiries from Saugatuck clients are a prime driver of our research. One of the areas under greatest scrutiny by both our CIO and IT provider clients right now is Mobility, with inquiries regarding a wide ra ...
Authors: Alex Bakker and Bruce Guptill The components of the new Master Architecture have accelerated rapidly to a level of business relevance since we first described it last year (1052CLS, Boundary-free Enterprise™: Empowered by the New Master Architec ...
Authors: Charlie Burns and Bruce Guptill What does it really cost to move IT workloads into the Cloud? What are the real economic benefits to the enterprise? And which types of workloads are better off running in traditional environments? Saugatuck rese ...
Author: Brian Dooley Mobility is creating more, and new, needs for new software development strategies favoring agile development, Cloud deployment, and DevOps approaches. Many of these practices represent an evolution from what was already happeni ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s November 2012 Cloud Business Summit shared insights and guidance from dozens of experienced IT and Business leaders regarding key aspects of Cloud and business management. This Strategic Perspective boils down the intera ...
Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without significant challenges to managing information for use in business decisions. Saugatuck ...
Author: Brian Dooley The fully virtual office is an important emerging development of the Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BFE). It has implications across the enterprise, but particularly in the IT department which must orchestrate its underlying processes an ...
Author: Bruce Guptill At the end of 2006, we looked at what was then an emergent trend in IT planning, spending, and management: the growth of “tactically strategic” investments instead of so-called “big bang” projects. After decades of massive business ...
Author: Alex Bakker Despite a promised ease of communication and reduction in the volume of email, few real world applications have shown that Enterprise Social Network (ESN) use reduces email volume. Meanwhile, an abundance of information over the last ...
Author: Bruce Guptill As Cloud-based data warehousing, processing, and analytics – including Big Data – grow in popularity, we find too much inaccurate and inadequate information and insight being circulated. This Strategic Perspective assembles four Clo ...
Author: Bruce Guptill The erosion of centralized control over IT is not only not news, but considered to be a fait accompli, even an old issue. Saugatuck interviews with IT and Finance leaders, however, continue to indicate that the issue remains top-of- ...
Author: Brian Dooley Enterprise resilience continues to grow in importance, as demonstrated by recent events surrounding Hurricane Sandy. Resilience links concepts of risk management, disaster recovery, GRC, and agility to create a pathway through the th ...
Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck’s ongoing discussions with both user and vendor clients clearly continue to indicate that enterprises are increasingly implementing the fundamental building blocks of the Boundary-free Enterprise™. Not surprisingly, the tr ...
Author: Mike West Today’s businesses are doing their work through a new Cloud-based array of time- and location-independent computing capabilities – Collaboration, Mobile, Social and Analytics – plus Integration services which together make the Boundary- ...
Author: Mike West A recent blog post in the Wall Street Journal raised the concern that Cloud innovation, in particular by Salesforce.com, may be disruptive to IT and business leader relationships, partly because they may be occurring at a pace to rapid ...
Author: Brian Dooley The new mobility of IT, including smartphones and tablets, brings a new wave of sophisticated capabilities to the enterprise, and with it, an increasing collection of “must have” apps from the consumer and self-built space. These app ...
Author: Mike West Saugatuck recently conducted an interview research program that took an in-depth look at how the Cloud is evolving. In Part 1 of this 2-part Strategic Perspective, we asked if these industry leaders could see change in what their custom ...
Author: Bruce Guptill The “death” of the traditional PC is one of the enduring myths shaping IT markets, provider strategies, and enterprise buying trends. Saugatuck’s analysis of PC sales data, however, indicates something much different – strong, histo ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Microsoft took some of the wraps off its newest version of Office this week, showing off its Cloud-related aspects and making it available for testing. While this is an important and necessary step for Microsoft, what was revealed i ...
Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...
Author: Bill McNee, Mike West As part of our ongoing Executive Insights research program, Saugatuck’s Bill McNee and Mike West recently caught up with Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology Architect at Accenture. Published originally as a 2-part set of delive ...
Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...
Authors: Bill McNee and Mike West As part of our ongoing Executive Insights research program, Saugatuck’s Bill McNee and Mike West recently caught up with Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology Architect at Accenture. Here Daugherty offers a range of insightfu ...
Authors: Bill McNee and Mike West As part of our ongoing Executive Insights research program, Saugatuck’s Bill McNee and Mike West recently caught up with Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology Architect at Accenture. Here Daugherty offers a range of insightfu ...
Authors: Mike West, Bruce Guptill There is no shortage today of models for positioning and considering IT providers. Some are very well-known and widely used. Most map a provider’s vision against its perceived ability to execute upon that vision. This ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Bill McNee On June 6, 2012, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced as part of the company’s Executive Strategy Update that Oracle now has a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise business software development, delivery, and ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Charlie Burns, Mike West Earlier this week, several trade media outlets reported that Dell was in talks to acquire one of its core software partners, Quest Software. Quest offers solutions designed to “simplify the management of I ...
Author: Mike West Positioning models such as the Gartner Magic Quadrant have dominated IT business and technology buying for over twenty years. This way of viewing a market space, while positioning vendors and their offerings, says nothing about how well ...
Authors: Brian Dooley and Bruce Guptill Regional differences are critical in determining market requirements for the relative value of technologies and services, as well as in predicting significant trends in how Cloud-based businesses will develop. Saug ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Four years ago, Saugatuck looked at nascent SaaS providers and their SLAs, or lack thereof, and provided guidance for enterprise buyers and executives regarding the most important aspects of SaaS SLAs to be negotiated. Our guidance ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Years of research regarding SaaS adoption plans, adoption and usage reinforce a critical pattern: Relative levels of SaaS business application adoption and use through the realistically plannable future have become very predictable. ...
Author: Bruce Guptill The most effective IT solutions are those that satisfy buyer and user goals and expectations. Saugatuck recently analyzed our latest research data regarding business goals by size of enterprise, and how these relate to SaaS/Cl ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s ongoing research with IT and business leaders regarding their business, Cloud, social and other IT-related plans and actions reveals that, while core business priorities remain very similar from the smallest firms to the ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Regardless of their size, businesses worldwide tend to emphasize very similar business goals. However, their emphasis on different goals varies quite a bit according to their relative size. This leads to a range of challenge and nee ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Core enterprise business goals vary somewhat in priority from year to year. For 2012, enterprise business goals tend to emphasize growth in revenue and market share, including selling more to existing customers. Improvements in marg ...
Author: Mike West An emerging and disruptive master architecture – combining Cloud, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics plus Integration to on-premises Data Assets – is now forming to enable the Boundary-free Enterprise™ that Saugatuck foresaw in 2008. The ...
Author: Bill McNee Earlier this quarter, Saugatuck began publishing the results of a deep-dive interview program conducted with large-enterprise CIOs and CTOs, with a focus on gathering first-person insights into the impact that Cloud is having on IT str ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s just-completed 2012 global survey of SaaS/Cloud business solution adoption and use shows several patterns that indicate how the acquisition, use, and management of SaaS (and other Cloud-based IT services) is changing, ba ...
Author: Bill McNee In late January, we published the first of our 2-part Strategic Perspective focused on insight gathered from a dozen deep-dive interviews with large-enterprise CIOs and CTOs. The focus of the research was on gathering first person insi ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s latest global survey of executives and managers (see Note 1) shows very clearly that enterprises worldwide are still working their way through recovery mode, emphasizing improvement in operations, market presence, and cu ...
Author: Brian Dooley Resilience is a growing organizational requirement that has come to the fore in recent years as a string of natural disasters have combined with economic issues and changing IT environments to create new threats and new opportunities ...
Author: Bill Kirwin The universe of IT assets is becoming increasingly abstracted by virtualization and service-based provisioning. Is it time to fold up the IT asset management (ITAM) tent or split the leftovers between the business units, facilities, t ...
Author: Mike West Today’s business environment has evolved to rely heavily on data, information and knowledge to accomplish its strategic goals. More easily available data has created a highly leveraged situation in which business success depends on data ...
Author: Bill Kirwin IT asset management (ITAM) is conceptually challenged by the continuing abstraction of hard assets and other resources into Cloud-based services and hybridized operating environments. The market realities of outsourcing, virtualizatio ...
Author: Steve Kovsky While IT leaders are increasingly learning to overcome unwarranted reticence and encouraging their organizations to embrace the Cloud, real security-related risks associated with Cloud IT remain a threat, and organizations must modif ...
Author: Mike West This week Informatica, The Data Integration Company, held an invitation-only, two-day conference for a select group of industry analysts at a hotel near the company’s Redwood City, California headquarters. While Saugatuck’s head of rese ...
Author: Mike West Saugatuck has studied the Windows Azure platform in depth over the past 24 months and, based on this research, Saugatuck has found that the Windows Azure platform provides migrating ISVs with a highly-productive, robust and potentially ...