Mobility
Authors: Alex Bakker and Bruce Guptill Recent Saugatuck survey data suggests that the vast majority of users find that Mobility will be critical over the next two years to helping their companies maintain competitiveness. Meanwhile, Mobile Device Managem ...
Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ continues to impact the formula-to-value provided by major IT vendors. None, however, has taken on the full-scale transformation that Dell has, from leading PC vendor to consumers to Boundary-fre ...
Authors: Mike West and Bill McNee The emergence of the Boundary-free Enterprise™ is clearly reshaping what it takes to be a successful Cloud ISV. Not only are today’s Cloud-savvy Enterprise buyers looking for new kinds of solutions that often make ...
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: Bruce Guptill A new Saugatuck Strategic Research Report spotlights the accelerating changes in known and unknown IT and business requirements, while laying out a framework for seeing, understanding, and managing this often-underestimated shift in ...
Author: Bruce Guptill With physical IT and business boundaries already dissipating, will ubiquitous, cheap smartphones be the force that tips global business into new architectures and new business models, faster than we think and sooner than we’re ready ...
Authors: Brian Dooley and Alex Bakker The development of mobile platforms and their attached ecosystems by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Blackberry has created a new competition within IT, in which vendors and mobile platforms themselves fight for mindsh ...
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 ...
Author: Mike West As Saugatuck has been reporting for some time now, there is an historic change underway, building on the foundations of the Cloud transition. 2012 was perhaps the most dramatic year in ISV-to-Cloud and pureplay-Cloud startup activity, a ...
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: 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 ...
Authors: Alex Bakker and Mike West A recent article in The New Yorkerby Columbia University professor Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch, once again raises the question of whether technology providers perform better when they are “open” or “closed.” In ...
Author: Alex Bakker Hand-in-hand with the Consumerization of IT is the rise of “Bring-Your-Own-Technology” (BYOT). We are using this term, rather than the popular BYOD, as it is not just about mobile devices, but also personal applications, clouds, servi ...
Author: Brian Dooley The Enterprise Personal Cloud is a key component of the re-engineered IT vision we have referred to as the Boundary Free Enterprise™. As yet, the Personal Cloud is poorly understood, and has been considered mainly as an enhance ...
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 ...
Author: Mike West The twenty-three trends that we recently reported on for our weekly Research Alert readers will be among the most impactful currents in the stream of changes flowing into and through technology markets during 2013. This Strategic Perspe ...
Author: Brian Dooley Analytics and Mobility have a number of important intersections that will help to define enterprise computing, marketing, and software development in the future. As the synergies between these areas continue to develop, we can expect ...
Authors: Brian Dooley and Bruce Guptill IBM has come out with its annual list of innovations that are considered the most likely to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years. This time, they all revolve around growing abili ...
Authors: Mike West, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker As we noted last week, the end of each year tends to bring a fun, and often rewarding, look back at what we thought versus what has actually happened, and to make predictions about ...
Author: Mike West, Bruce Guptill Over the past year, our survey and interview research among IT buyers, users, and managers, and research work with IT vendors and services providers, has helped shine some light on several trends that we expect will becom ...
Author: Bruce Guptill An under-emphasized but omni-present theme throughout this week’s IBM Software Group (IBM SWG) Analyst Insights event in Stamford, CT was that of the primary role being played by Mobility in driving not just Cloud use and business v ...
Author: Mike West What are the opportunities for innovation and the management challenges presented by Collaboration, Social Nets and Mobility? We will explore this question at the 2012 Cloud Business Summit at the Westin Times Square in New York on Nove ...
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 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: Brian Dooley Enabled and driven by the Boundary-free Enterprise™, we are entering the age of the virtual workforce, in which increasing varieties of jobs can be accomplished by telecommuting, from remote offices, or even on the road. This Strateg ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Predictions of Microsoft becoming a top-three mobile vendor seem less far-fetched with the advent of Surface tablets and a slew of competitive Windows-based tablets (Wintabs) from the very partners with whom Microsoft is competing. ...
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: Bruce Guptill For Saugatuck, the announcement and demonstrations of the “new” iPhone and associated paraphernalia indicate more that Apple is no longer innovating at its previous pace, most likely because they face the classic Innovator’s Dilemma ...
Author: Brian Dooley As mobile usage becomes more mature, different user types and multiple device scenarios are emerging. Continuing to emphasize “mobility” masks the fact that the ability to take a device on the road is only part of its utility. The ra ...
Author: Brian Dooley The Mobile Cloud is evolving rapidly, and creating a cascading series of opportunities and questions across the enterprise. This essential part of the Boundary Free Enterprise™ is set to explode, and requires careful attention to man ...
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: 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: 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: Bruce Guptill Microsoft has previewed both its new Surface tablet line and its upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS. Both are incomplete, but both signify massive strategic changes for Microsoft, with cascading impacts for its partners and customers. This ...
Author: Bruce Guptill To great fanfare, Microsoft announced its new Surface tablets this week. The demonstrations showed a well-designed piece of hardware that shows tremendous promise to help Microsoft establish and grow a user presence, and therefore e ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Verizon Wireless rolled out its anticipated “shared data” plan this week. The plan, which emphasizes tiered data usage pricing that can be distributed among multiple user devices on the same account, is set to go into effect over th ...
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 ...
Author: Bill McNee Like many mega-vendors, IBM is making serious investments in key trends and technologies driving the new Master IT architecture (Cloud / Mobile / Social / Analytics + Integration – see Research Alert 1054RA, published April 12, 2012), ...
Author: Bruce Guptill and Alex Bakker Saugatuck regularly handles questions from clients regarding a variety of aspects all of our research programs, including Mobility, Cloud, Social and Analytics. This Strategic Perspective summarizes and highlights a ...
Author: Alex Bakker Social technologies and mobile devices evolved in the marketplace concurrently. By bringing them into the enterprise, business and IT leaders can take advantage of a broad range of capabilities developed for consumer technologies and ...
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: Steve Kovsky Cloud and the impact/importance of mobile broadband took center stage at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Saugatuck’s Steve Kovsky participated in a series of sessions and discussion on the topic, and reports back that ...
Authors: Alex Bakker, Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill While most of the IT and consumer electronics world has been considering whether or not the “new iPad” rolled out by Apple this week is evolutionary or revolutionary (or, to borrow Apple’s bad pun, “reso ...
Author: Bruce Guptill The IT world in general and the mobility marketplace in particular, has seen two erstwhile giants of mobility fall from positions of power and influence over the past two-plus years. This Strategic Perspective looks at the parallel, ...
Author: Brian Dooley Though recently slowed somewhat, the Asia/Pacific region continues to experience significant economic growth as compared to the rest of the world. Continuing development provides both a bellwether to trends and an enormous market for ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s review of personal computing operating system usage by developers has long shown that Microsoft Windows – in all its traditional versions – has been gradually losing market share to Linux and Mac/iOS, especially among de ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck sees two important trends regarding smartphones and users shaping IT management costs now, and likely to accelerate IT complexity beyond what most enterprise IT and business organizations are prepared to manage: The per ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Mobility is not just about smartphones and tablets, credit-card swipers, location-based data, and skinnied-down versions of desktop business environments. Mobility is about users and devices conducting business in a variety of ...
Author: Brian Dooley The Mobile Cloud represents a set of formats in which the Cloud and Mobility come together to create synergies and new opportunities for users and vendors alike. This area is booming, and has ushered in a new range of innovat ...