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: 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 and Charlie Burns This year’s IBM Connect event – formerly Lotusphere – clearly affirms and confirms IBM’s company-wide and –deep commitment to the inextricably intertwined IT and business realities of Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analyti ...

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: 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 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: Alex Bakker Despite a promised ease of communication and reduction in the volume of email, few real world applications have shown that Enterprise Social Network (ESN) use reduces email volume. Meanwhile, an abundance of information over the last ...

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: Bruce Guptill The erosion of centralized control over IT is not only not news, but considered to be a fait accompli, even an old issue. Saugatuck interviews with IT and Finance leaders, however, continue to indicate that the issue remains top-of- ...

Author: Mike West What are the opportunities for innovation and the management challenges presented by Collaboration, Social Nets and Mobility? We will explore this question at the 2012 Cloud Business Summit at the Westin Times Square in New York on Nove ...

Author: Alex Bakker The next year will see Social IT morph from trial technology to core IT system. Vendors should look hard at these five trends in Social IT and prepare their strategies accordingly, lest they be outmaneuvered or caught off-guard by the ...

Author: Alex Bakker Social IT is a methodology more than an end goal. Functionally, tools that have embraced Social capabilities are delivering net-new functionality that upsets more traditional business processes and presents strategists with a way of o ...

Authors: Mike West and Bruce Guptill To no one’s surprise, this year’s Dreamforce – the annual Salesforce.com conference / event / customer festival – is all about enterprise and social business. The company, the customers, the partners and more are ...

Author: Mike West Saugatuck recently conducted an interview research program that took an in-depth look at how the Cloud is evolving. In Part 1 of this 2-part Strategic Perspective, we asked if these industry leaders could see change in what their custom ...

Author: Brian Dooley The Mobile Cloud is evolving rapidly, and creating a cascading series of opportunities and questions across the enterprise. This essential part of the Boundary Free Enterprise™ is set to explode, and requires careful attention to man ...

Author: Mike West ISVs are experiencing several, sometimes simultaneous waves of Cloud transition across portfolios that affect their development strategies and requirements. Interviews with industry thought leaders identify the most important technologi ...

Author: Alex Bakker Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) are facing a signifcant evolution as they mature. Expanded platform capabilities, and functional uniformity between vendors has opened the door for leaders in the space to strategically focus on expan ...

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: 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 ...