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Author: Ron Exler While Big Data continues to be one of the most-hyped aspects of the Cloud-enabled, Boundary-Free Enterprise™, its tangible benefits today are relatively fleeting for most organizations. Excellent tools exist to enable the transformation ...
Author: Mike West Saugatuck research indicates seven area of critical management challenges that any ISV needs to address and resolve – repeatedly – as it transitions to, and then tries to remain competitive in, Cloud-oriented markets. Previously, we pro ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West and Charlie Burns Hewlett Packard has been on a very bumpy road to market position recovery, and is quite rightly emphasizing Cloud IT as the primary vehicle for that journey. But its latest major announcement has Saugat ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West and Charlie Burns This week, Cloud CRM and platform provider Salesforce announced its intended acquisition of marketing data integration services provider ExactTarget, in a $2.5 billion deal that includes buying outstand ...
Author: Mike West As Cloud adoption continues to accelerate for all types of IT and business use, Saugatuck has revamped and expanded its research programs regarding ISV business and technology transitions into Cloud-driven markets, including the global ...
Author: Charlie Burns Dimension Data continues to receive significant funding from parent firm NTT, and is investing heavily in offerings which capitalize on and build upon their core Cloud growth strategy. This solid focus on Cloud offerings and their u ...
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: Alex Bakker, Charlie Burns and Bill McNee Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services was granted the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification, becoming the 3rd company so far to be approved for broad federal use. The ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Conversations with enterprise IT and business leaders suggest that the rapid evolution of Cloud for enterprise business may be more misunderstood by analysts and media than by enterprise executives and decision makers. This Strategi ...
Author: Bruce Guptill If it’s May, Saugatuck must be participating in SAP’s annual Sapphire user and partner event. And if we’re talking about SAP, we must be talking about what they said they would do, and what they have actually done. Here’s what we ...
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: Charlie Burns IBM continues to invest heavily in technologies underlying and enabling the Boundary-free Enterprise™, with the most significant of these being Cloud, Mobility, Social, Analytics, and Integration. IBM’s focus on these technologies a ...
Author: Brian Dooley Talent Management is undergoing significant change as the pressures that define the BfE continue to resonate throughout the business environment. Talent Management processes are being integrated, automated, and analyzed with the same ...
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: Mike West, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker Recent Cloud-driven changes in services, technologies, and capabilities have shaped a radical and complete re-thinking of the roles, responsibilities, capabilities, and value of en ...
Author: Mike West In adapting to client needs for compliance with Solvency II in the UK, Milliman Inc.’s financial modeling solution went from a dedicated, on-premises, PC-based to a Cloud solution on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, utilizing scala ...
Author: Bruce Guptill SaaS/Cloud software services and providers have matured to the point where, in almost every market, ISVs offer extremely similar functionality, and now need more and better ways of differentiation. And while that functionality may b ...
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 ...
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 ...
Author: Brian Dooley Catalyzed by the Cloud, “Crowd” is a multifaceted, emerging pattern of behavior capable of providing enormous advantages to those who can corral it. It offers everything from insight to funding for a growing range of successful endea ...
Author: Mike West In adapting to client needs for compliance with Solvency II in the UK, Milliman’s financial modeling solution went from a dedicated, on-premises, PC-based to a Cloud solution on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, utilizing scalable h ...
Author: Charlie Burns Ongoing discussions with enterprise users and with IT providers reveal that enterprises are increasingly transitioning toward the Boundary-free Enterprise™. A key element of that transition is the adoption of Business Analytics. How ...
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 ...
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 Cloud Business Applications are becoming more mainstream and expanding from the periphery toward the core of many enterprises. As this happens, the focus has shifted from an “if” to a “when” as companies increasingly look toward Cloud ...
Author: Charlie Burns Adoption of Cloud IT offerings began, and mostly remains, based on the attraction of reduced infrastructure costs. However, ongoing conversations with users have shown that simply selecting a Cloud infrastructure offering does not e ...
Author: Bruce Guptill What makes Cloud IT and Business work to competitive advantage is innovation – innovation in how and where these technologies and services are used to enable new and better ways of doing business, and to enable entirely new business ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee What makes Cloud IT and Business work to competitive advantage is innovation – innovation in how and where these technologies and services are used to enable new and better ways of doing business, and to enable ...
Author: Brian Dooley Growth of analytics and trends in process management and automation are opening the way for a new range of autonomous solutions, in which decisions are made immediately on the basis of real time analysis. This has been seen in manufa ...
Author: Bruce Guptill In our recent work with several Master Brand (i.e., ecosystem-dominant) ISVs, Saugatuck has recently revamped our ongoing research and guidance regarding ISV Cloud efforts. Over the years, we have identified core areas of management ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Charlie Burns Announcements within the past two weeks by IBM and Oracle have been touted as helping to promote the use of private Clouds. Saugatuck believes that they may actually help to limit the attractiveness ...
Author: Mike West As Cloud adoption continues to accelerate, Saugatuck has revamped its ongoing ISV programs to refresh and expand our research and guidance regarding ISV Cloud efforts. Over the years, we have identified seven areas of management challen ...
Author: Charlie Burns Cloud-based IT infrastructure has become a legitimate, viable alternative to traditional on-premises IT infrastructure. While most IT executives perceive Cloud-based offerings as a means to reduce costs, experience is showing that C ...
Author: Charlie Burns On 15 February, Amazon announced broad availability and new partners for Redshift, a Cloud-based data warehouse offering. On 4 March, IBM announced that all of its cloud services will be based on an open source cloud architecture. A ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Conceptual terms like “Social Business,” “Innovation,” and “Transformation” are widely used by IT providers, developers, and buyers. Yet they remain poorly defined, misunderstood, and misinterpreted – leaving the door open to signif ...
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 ...
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 Tech ...
Author: Bruce Guptill As legacy business software ISVs move more rapidly toward Cloud as their core technology and business model, many tend to forget or ignore that a significant portion of their legacy customer base (and partner base) remain unconvince ...
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: Charlie Burns Not surprisingly, ongoing discussions with Cloud users and providers indicate that the popularity of Cloud-based solutions continues to expand. However, the same discussions reveal the increasing incidence of enterprise IT organizat ...
Author: Alex Bakker and Bruce Guptill This week has been full of Cloud Big Data and analytics announcements. From Intel to Microsoft, RedHat to VMware, IBM to Informatica, we’ve seen a series of rollouts, enhancements, extensions and open source contribu ...
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: Mike West In this Strategic Perspective, we discuss a number of issues that make up the Cloud pricing conundrum with the intention of unraveling some of its complexity. We consider underlying costs, the elements of Cloud pricing, the value metric ...
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 ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill and Frank Sempert Saugatuck recently held a roundtable discussion event in Frankfurt with executives from 20 ISVs and regional small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), or as they are referred to in Germany – KMUs (Kleine und mittelg ...