Author: Brian Dooley Talent Management is undergoing significant change as the pressures that define the BfE continue to resonate throughout the business environment. Talent Management processes are being integrated, automated, and analyzed with the same ...

Author: Alex Bakker Hand-in-hand with the Consumerization of IT is the rise of “Bring-Your-Own-Technology” (BYOT). We are using this term, rather than the popular BYOD, as it is not just about mobile devices, but also personal applications, clouds, servi ...

Author: Alex Bakker Over the next year, we are expecting that IT will primarily focus its efforts on tactically-focused initiatives that will support enterprises’ ability to execute in the short term. Given these limitations, many important long-term I ...

Author: Alex Bakker Looking back, 2012 was a year of maturation and development for Social Business IT that saw most ESN vendors evolving their offerings. At the beginning of 2012 we offered our predictions on what would be the driving forces in the evol ...

Author: Mike West The move to the Boundary-free Enterprise™ and its enabling Master Architecture is impacting both the way business is being conducted, and the portfolio of technologies required to enable this change. On both sides of the proposition – o ...

Author: Alex Bakker Briefings and conversations with vendors and IT end users have highlighted a growing interest in leveraging Enterprise Social Networks and their APIs to provide additional, integrated data streams to their users. As their APIs and int ...

Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...

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: Alex Bakker Integration is a primary facet of the Master Architecture that enables the transformative IT model we have termed the Boundary-free Enterprise™. In order to best serve their clients, IT vendors need to understand what the effects of l ...

Author: Mike West Positioning models such as the Gartner Magic Quadrant have dominated IT business and technology buying for over twenty years. This way of viewing a market space, while positioning vendors and their offerings, says nothing about how well ...

Author: Bruce Guptill The most effective IT solutions are those that satisfy buyer and user goals and expectations.  Saugatuck recently analyzed our latest research data regarding business goals by size of enterprise, and how these relate to SaaS/Cl ...

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: Bruce Guptill Core enterprise business goals vary somewhat in priority from year to year. For 2012, enterprise business goals tend to emphasize growth in revenue and market share, including selling more to existing customers. Improvements in marg ...

Author: Mike West An emerging and disruptive master architecture – combining Cloud, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics plus Integration to on-premises Data Assets – is now forming to enable the Boundary-free Enterprise™ that Saugatuck foresaw in 2008. The ...

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: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck research since 2008 has used the term “Cloud speed” as a short-hand for connoting a wide and deep range of market, technology and behavioral changes attributed to and enabled by Cloud IT and Cloud Business. This Strategic ...

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: 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: Brian Dooley As Social Business IT and its uses continue to evolve, different usage profiles are emerging for functional groups within the enterprise. These differences potentially create different markets, and a new range of management concerns. ...