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: 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: 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: 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 ...

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: 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: 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 ...

Author: Charlie Burns Recently Saugatuck observed that with its increasing popularity, Cloud IT is likely to become the third nearly-universal infrastructure architecture. The preceding two, the centralized / mainframe architecture and the decentralized ...

Author: Brian Dooley Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is gradually moving to the Cloud under pressure from a wide variety of motives. The Cloud makes it possible to begin looking at a comprehensive risk management strategy, among other things. But t ...

Author: Alex Bakker SharePoint’s continued dominance in the enterprise was a key takeaway from last week’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference. On the top of mind for the conference attendees, focused on delivering or extracting value from Social and Collaboration ...

Author: Alex Bakker This year’s Enterprise 2.0 conference illustrated an emerging shift in the social software space from peripheral to core. Though the market is still in its infancy, with more proof of concepts than fully functional deployments, there ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck research indicates the beginning of a shift from on-premises software through a hybridized, Cloud+on-premises phase, toward a pure-play Cloud acquisition and deployment model within the next four years. This Strategic Pers ...

Author: Bruce Guptill The critical knowledge to come from Sapphire 2012 is this: SAP leadership is pulling out all stops when it comes to Cloud. HANA is the core of SAP’s technology and business strategy; Cloud is required to make HANA work, and to enabl ...

Author: Mike West In September 2008, we introduced the Saugatuck Cloud EcoStack™, a model describing five functional layers of the Cloud and their interrelations: Level 4 - Cloud Business Services and Operations Level 3 - Cloud Business Solutions Le ...

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: Bruce Guptill Latest 2012 Saugatuck research indicates that collaborative commerce is one of top Cloud/SaaS applications types under consideration and being deployed. But uncertainty surrounds what constitutes Collaborative Commerce, its realisti ...

Author: Bruce Guptill The completion of Saugatuck’s latest global survey of SaaS/Cloud business solution adoption drives a re-examination and re-articulation of Saugatuck’s SaaS research agenda. This Strategic Perspective lays out that agenda throughout ...

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: 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 ...