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: 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: Charlie Burns IBM continues to invest heavily in technologies underlying and enabling the Boundary-free Enterprise™, with the most significant of these being Cloud, Mobility, Social, Analytics, and Integration. IBM’s focus on these technologies a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: Brian Dooley and Alex Bakker The development of mobile platforms and their attached ecosystems by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Blackberry has created a new competition within IT, in which vendors and mobile platforms themselves fight for mindsh ...

Author: Brian Dooley Catalyzed by the Cloud, “Crowd” is a multifaceted, emerging pattern of behavior capable of providing enormous advantages to those who can corral it. It offers everything from insight to funding for a growing range of successful endea ...

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: 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 ...

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: Charlie Burns Adoption of Cloud IT offerings began, and mostly remains, based on the attraction of reduced infrastructure costs. However, ongoing conversations with users have shown that simply selecting a Cloud infrastructure offering does not e ...

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: 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: 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 ...