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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: Brian Dooley Resilience is a growing requirement for organizations. A resilient organization is prepared for disasters of all types, able to respond quickly and creatively, and capable of realizing opportunities in change. Resilience both IT and ...
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 ...
Authors: Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill, Alex Bakker Cloud-based technologies and offerings are the arena in which data integration is evolving from a simple means of transmitting information between applications into complex business capabilities that ena ...
Author: Charlie Burns Enterprise adoption of Cloud offerings remains mostly based on cost-versus-benefit decisions. And, just as no two clouds in the sky are identical, no two vendors of Cloud offerings have established identical pricing. This Strategic ...
Author: Bruce Guptill IT markets in general are going through a period of not just massive growth and change, but also a period of pervasive inconsistency that reduces the ability to see, manage, and account for IT, especially in the traditional ways tha ...
Author: Alex Bakker After conducting a careful examination of websites and public marketing information from ten leading vendors of Social Business IT solutions aimed at internal collaboration, we found that very little was clear from them about what the ...
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: Bill Kirwin Knowledge work continues to evolve as new tools are adopted while traditional tools continue to grow in use. Communication and collaboration have become the primary activities, consuming almost 90 percent of a typical day in the knowl ...
Author: Mike West In 2010, Microsoft launched the Windows Azure platform. Since then, Saugatuck has been actively tracking Windows Azure through regular Microsoft briefings, interviews with ISVs and with SIs that have migrated their solutions or workload ...
Author: Bill McNee To help kick off our 2012 research agenda, Saugatuck initiated a deep-dive interview program earlier this month with a dozen large-enterprise CIOs and CTOs, focusing on gathering first person insights into the impact that Cloud is havi ...
Author: Alex Bakker Saugatuck believes that 2012 will likely be pivotal in the tablet ecosystem, specifically related to the enterprise and IT buyers. A recent survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project indicated that the ownership of table ...
Author: Brian Dooley Recent natural disasters around the world have placed business recovery in high relief. At the same time, unified IT risk management and evolving ideas of Agility have come together to create a new concept of organizational resilienc ...
Authors: Steve Kovsky and Bruce Guptill A large and influential IT hardware manufacturer has built and operates a large private Cloud environment for the design and testing of processor designs. In this Strategic Perspective, Saugatuck provides brief ins ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Two years ago, Saugatuck published its seminal report on critical management strategies for the emerging Cloud IT and Cloud Business era. Our net position: Anyone with any responsibility for IT and business needs to learn how to lea ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck SVP Bruce Guptill has returned from three days at IBM Lotusphere, including the IBM Connect sub-event devoted to social business IT. Among Guptill’s goals for the trip were to test the extent of IBM’s emergent SmartCloud p ...
Author: Charlie Burns As the curtain rises on 2012, we take a look forward and identify four major forces which we expect to heavily influence enterprise IT strategies, and vie for IT resources, for the next twelve to twenty-four months. This Strategic P ...
Author: Bruce Guptill The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the big tech news this week. As usual, the focus in most media and analyst coverage has been on the latest end-user gadgets, with a side interest in how Microsoft, Google, and othe ...
Author: Alex Bakker, Bruce Guptill Social Business IT, a nascent industry in 2011 has come into sharper focus in the last few months and now into the New Year. This Strategic Perspective lays out the seven core areas of focus for Saugatuck Technology’s r ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill and Mike West Saugatuck’s review of user enterprise pilot programs, trials, and proofs-of-concept in such emergent, leading-edge IT as Cloud IT, mobility, social business IT, and big data/analytics indicates that too many enterpris ...
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 We're in the midst of an economic shift in innovation sourcing that will cause significant, ongoing alterations in the abilities of IT providers to compete, while altering the abilities of user enterprises to offshore, relocate, or ...
Authors: Brian Dooley and Bruce Guptill Report Overview: The latest research from Saugatuck Technology shows that we are in the midst of an economic shift in innovation sourcing that is pushing more than half of IT providers to outsource and off-shore t ...
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: Bill McNee On Thursday, December 15, 2011, salesforce.com announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rypple, an emerging Cloud-based provider of “social performance management” solutions – with a plan to rebrand the solution “ ...
Author: Charlie Burns Recently Saugatuck identified that the evolution to the Quantified Enterprise™ may become this decade’s most transformative shift in how businesses are managed. However, our research also reveals that this evolution is being hindere ...
Author: Mike West Saugatuck has developed a framework to assist clients in envisioning and developing useful, relevant models for cost comparison/ROI assessment of Cloud-based solutions versus more traditional on-premises software deploy-ments. As with a ...
Author: Larry Perlstein Collaborative IT defines the universe of tools and infrastructure from email, file sharing, and web conferencing to products such as Salesforce.com’s Chatter and IBM’s LotusLive. Social Business IT is a segment of the Collaborativ ...
Author: Robert Cohen Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) and HP have created an initiative to help service providers play a much larger role in delivering cloud services to businesses and consumers. ALU describes CloudBand, its foundation for a new class of ‘carr ...
Author: Alex Bakker As users flock to social networks for communication, they are hampered by their need to retain email for external communication and maintain a “single point” of aggregation for all of their web needs outside of collaboration. Internal ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee SAP is putting in place the foundational elements for the Cloud-driven business and technology strategy that it outlined in 2009. The company is laying a foundation to become a Cloud-enabling, rapid-development platf ...
Author: Steve Kovsky Saugatuck Technology’s recently completed 2011 Social Business IT survey shows that companies have begun to broadly implement Social Business applications for internal use. However, more advanced applications such as external or inte ...
Author: Bill Kirwin Complexity is a key driver of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). When applied to Cloud IT, complexity goes beyond hardware and software to include the organizational complexities of business process, culture and supply chain. It’s i ...
Authors: Bill McNee, Bruce Guptill, Mike West On Saturday, December 3, 2011, SAP announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion, a roughly 10X multiple to estimated calendar year 2011 revenues (and 8X ...
Authors: Bill McNee and Charlie Burns While there are a number of important software industry trends that ebb and flow through time, the advent of the Cloud is clearly encouraging many technology providers to go vertical and emphasize solutions – as tech ...
Authors: Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker The evolution to the Quantified Enterprise™ is gaining momentum and may become this decade’s most transformative shift in how businesses are managed. But, as the adoption of business analytics is accelerating, a growin ...
Author: Mike West In this 2-part Strategic Perspective, we review seven leading trends impacting the value that can be realized through the Cloud Services layer.In Part 2, we discuss the next three of these Cloud Services trends: 5. ISVs migrating to th ...
Author: Mike West, Bill McNee In this 2-part Strategic Perspective, we review seven leading trends impacting the value that can be realized through the Cloud Services layer.In Part 1, we discuss the first four of these Cloud Services trends: Three key ...
Author: Larry Perlstein Data privacy concerns and regulations continue to shape how, where, and when various types of Cloud IT and Cloud business are deployed and used, and at what costs. This Strategic Perspective introduces and reviews key data privacy ...
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: Mike West, Bill McNee As we move through the harvest season toward the traditional North American celebration of bounty at Thanksgiving, we at Saugatuck are reflecting on the amazing growth of fruitful new ventures and opportunities in the high t ...
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 ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Conversations during and after SIIA’s recent All About Mobile event in San Francisco focused on what really makes mobility different and challenging, for developers, for IT vendors, or for enterprises. In this Strategic Perspective, ...
Author: Robert Cohen A number of cloud providers are developing a broad range of applications that they will sell to small and medium-sized businesses as well as alliances with systems integrators that can help firms move their apps into the cloud. The s ...
Author: Alex Bakker This Strategic Perspective addresses the issue of “network effect” and its impact on the value of Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs). We provide frameworks for understanding how the value of ESNs is perceived differently at an organiza ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck SVP Bruce Guptill had the pleasure of participating in SIIA’s recent All About Mobile event in San Francisco Nov 15 2011, including chaired a panel on mobile payments and participating in sideline discussions and sessions. ...
Author: Charlie Burns Disruptions of service at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in early August impacted numerous customer workloads. The recent protracted outage experienced by Research In Motion (RIM) left BlackBerry users without email and messaging service ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s survey data analysis indicates that small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are focusing a much larger percentage of their Social Business IT investments on customer-focused applications than are larger enterprises. The da ...