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: 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: 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: 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 ...

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: 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: 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: 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 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 ...

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 ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s November 2012 Cloud Business Summit shared insights and guidance from dozens of experienced IT and Business leaders regarding key aspects of Cloud and business management. This Strategic Perspective boils down the intera ...

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 ...