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: 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: 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 ...

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: 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: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without concomitant challenges to data management. Saugatuck see seven important trends within ...

Author: Mike West The twenty-three trends that we recently reported on for our weekly Research Alert readers will be among the most impactful currents in the stream of changes flowing into and through technology markets during 2013. This Strategic Perspe ...

Author: Brian Dooley Analytics and Mobility have a number of important intersections that will help to define enterprise computing, marketing, and software development in the future. As the synergies between these areas continue to develop, we can expect ...

Author: Mike West Since launching our expanded Boundary-free Enterprise™ framework earlier in 2012, we have had a fair number of interesting questions come in over the transom, so to speak. Our clients have posed most of these, but others have come up at ...

Author: Brian Dooley Big Data continues to impact vendors and IT users alike as it creates a rising tide of change across the firm, including analytics capabilities, competitive requirements, IT infrastructure, processes, and personnel. Big Data is no lo ...

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: Alex Bakker and Mike West Cloud, Mobile, and Social applications have competed for their places in the enterprise over the last few years. Now that these interrelated applications have emerged as part of the new master architecture, which Saugat ...

Authors: Bill McNee and Mike West Last week, Saugatuck attended the Wells Fargo Tech Summit in San Francisco, moderating a panel and meeting with a number of industry leaders. This was the second year that we participated in the conference – which we gre ...

Author: Alex Bakker Big Data and data analytics are gaining traction as an important area of focus in enterprise IT. As the discipline grows, it will drive businesses to seek answers and value from their own data. Saugatuck has seen an interest in levera ...

Author: Mike West Today’s business environment has evolved to rely heavily on data, information and knowledge to accomplish its strategic goals. More easily available data has created a highly leveraged situation in which business success depends on data ...

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 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: 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 ...

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 Over the past several years Saugatuck has researched the impact of the Cloud on the evolving Finance function through surveys and interviews. More recently, in the spring/summer of 2011, we conducted an in-depth research into Cloud prov ...