Author: Alex Bakker The convergent forces of the New Master Architecture – Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics, and Integration – are driving rapid change in Enterprise and LOB IT capabilities. Simultaneously, the consequences of these rapid changes are man ...

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: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without concomitant challenges to data management. Saugatuck see seven important trends within ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Charlie Burns One result of the continual consumerization of IT, including Mobility, BYOD, and Cloud, is that the Annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas often is an indicator of significant change or improvement in IT ...

Author: Mike West Since launching our expanded Boundary-free Enterprise™ framework earlier in 2012, we have had a fair number of interesting questions come in over the transom, so to speak. Our clients have posed most of these, but others have come up at ...

Author: Mike West The move to the Boundary-free Enterprise™ and its enabling Master Architecture is impacting both the way business is being conducted, and the portfolio of technologies required to enable this change. On both sides of the proposition – o ...

Author: Mike West ISVs are experiencing several, sometimes simultaneous waves of Cloud transition across portfolios that affect their development strategies and requirements. Interviews with industry thought leaders identify the most important technologi ...

Author: Alex Bakker Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) are facing a signifcant evolution as they mature. Expanded platform capabilities, and functional uniformity between vendors has opened the door for leaders in the space to strategically focus on expan ...

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 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: Mike West Integration redefines the meaning and the value of solutions and platforms in the Cloud. Instead of a standalone set of Cloud resources, integration enables both economy and synergy, innovation and reach, as solutions and technologies l ...

Author: Mike West Broker-Aggregator offerings have become an important route to market for Cloud master brands, for small business SaaS vendors and for telecom providers, system integrators and other Cloud enablers, as channels for delivery of Cloud solu ...

Author: Lee GeisheckerWe recently provided an insightful look at specific Procurement functions and business needs to bring a new dimension to the discussion surrounding business effectiveness enabled by Cloud business solutions. In this follow-up Strateg ...

Author: Mike West In this Strategic Perspective, we discuss five key points along a spectrum of Cloud business solution offerings. Over time, as Cloud business solutions have evolved and deepened both in richness and complexity, it has become clear that ...

Authors: Robert McNeill, Mike West, Sarah McNee As Cloud Computing moves into the large enterprise and becomes an embedded part of IT and the business, customers are turning to a new wave of Cloud Facilitator (see Note 1) to help guide them through Cloud ...

Authors: Bill McNee, Charlie Burns This week Saugatuck’s Founder and CEO, Bill McNee, attended IBM’s annual software conference, Impact 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year’s event – with business agility as its major theme – drew approximately 6,000 at ...

Author: Mike West RevX provides a comprehensive system for Cloud Computing and Software as a Service providers seeking a monetization solution that can be tailored to unique business and operating requirements. Its messaging-centric Service-Oriented Arch ...

Author: Charlie Burns As originally projected by Saugatuck in April 2006, and later updated in 2007, 2008 and earlier in 2009, use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings continue to evolve from point solutions to ever more integrated business process ...

Authors: Bill McNee, Mike West, Bruce Guptill Security, performance, availability, integration: These are four key concerns that user IT and business executives alike cite when asked about challenges in adopting and deploying SaaS and Cloud Infrastructur ...

Authors: Mark Koenig, Bruce Guptill On Monday October 12, 2009, Salesforce.com announced the availability of new, jointly-marketed Cloud-based CRM solutions from Salesforce.com and Dell Inc.  Dell will offer Salesforce.com's SaaS-based CRM and sales auto ...

Author: Charlie Burns As user enterprises adopt more (and more complex and critical) SaaS offerings, they need a way to integrate those with existing systems and data. Cast Iron Systems is building on expertise and a strong customer portfolio to improve ...

Authors: Ron Exler, Bruce Guptill What is important to users and buyers in traditional IT is also what is important to them when it comes to software-as-a-service (SaaS). Recent Saugatuck research indicates that decision makers consider the availability ...

Author: Mike West Saugatuck’s recent global web survey identifies the core benefits and concerns that executives have regarding Cloud Computing deployment and use.  Cost-based benefits account for four of the top five business benefits expected from Clou ...