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Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West and Charlie Burns Hewlett Packard has been on a very bumpy road to market position recovery, and is quite rightly emphasizing Cloud IT as the primary vehicle for that journey. But its latest major announcement has Saugat ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West and Charlie Burns This week, Cloud CRM and platform provider Salesforce announced its intended acquisition of marketing data integration services provider ExactTarget, in a $2.5 billion deal that includes buying outstand ...
Author: Mike West As Cloud adoption continues to accelerate for all types of IT and business use, Saugatuck has revamped and expanded its research programs regarding ISV business and technology transitions into Cloud-driven markets, including the global ...
Author: Charlie Burns Dimension Data continues to receive significant funding from parent firm NTT, and is investing heavily in offerings which capitalize on and build upon their core Cloud growth strategy. This solid focus on Cloud offerings and their u ...
Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ continues to impact the formula-to-value provided by major IT vendors. None, however, has taken on the full-scale transformation that Dell has, from leading PC vendor to consumers to Boundary-fre ...
Authors: Alex Bakker, Charlie Burns and Bill McNee Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services was granted the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification, becoming the 3rd company so far to be approved for broad federal use. The ...
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: 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 ...