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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Alex Bakker and Bill McNee After weeks of marketplace speculation, Dell Inc. has formally announced its intention to buy back its outstanding shares and privatize the company for approximately $24.4B. The move will take ...

Authors: Mike West and Bill McNee As many of our readers know, for the past seven (plus) years, Saugatuck has been researching ISV and Master Brand transitions into the Cloud with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings. Our earliest research was based on dozens o ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee The end of each year brings a multitude of retrospectives. In trade and business media, it comes in the form of editorials; in personal life, especially in the US, it comes in the form of Christmas letters and cards ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee and Mike West On November 14, 2012, Saugatuck Technology hosted its second annual Cloud Business Summit – our premiere, invitation-only event in New York City. The conference brought together more than 100 Cloud-experie ...

Authors: Brian Dooley, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee The concept of business analytics and BI has never been more popular than we see it today. Analyst and media coverage emphasize gains in operational stability and reductions in costs; providers emphas ...

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, Alex Bakker, Charlie Burns, Mike West, Bill McNee This document represents a comprehensive review and analysis of data gathered via Saugatuck‘s February 2012 global web survey of enterprise executives regarding SaaS/Cloud Busine ...

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: 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 “ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

Authors: Larry Perlstein, Bill McNee As the deployment of social business technologies continues to grow and become an important component of corporate marketing strategies and customer interactions, companies need to establish appropriate guidelines for ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Alex Bakker, Charlie Burns, Mike West, Bill McNee This data report summarizes and presents key data, analysis, and insights developed from Saugatuck Technology’s 2011 Social Business Technology research program. The research progr ...

Authors: Brian Dooley, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Mike West “Big Data” is an increasingly-used but often ill-defined term, spurred in large part through the growth of Cloud IT and Cloud Business. While not a fundamentally new topic, Big Data has risen to ...