Author: Alex Bakker The Boundary-free Enterprise™ relies on Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics, and Integration as the primary forces that will enable a new era of the relationship between business and IT. Though all these forces together are having a prof ...

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: Brian Dooley The Enterprise Personal Cloud is a key component of the re-engineered IT vision we have referred to as the Boundary Free Enterprise™.  As yet, the Personal Cloud is poorly understood, and has been considered mainly as an enhance ...

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: 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: Brian Dooley Enabled and driven by the Boundary-free Enterprise™, we are entering the age of the virtual workforce, in which increasing varieties of jobs can be accomplished by telecommuting, from remote offices, or even on the road. This Strateg ...

Author: Charlie Burns While the use of Cloud IT can, and does, reduce the per-user footprint of electrical production and consumption, recent media coverage calls into the question the overall efficiencies and “green-ness” of Cloud as it relates to power ...

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 ...

Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck’s ongoing primary research (e.g., surveys and discussions with users and providers) continues to show that Public Clouds are increasingly being adopted by enterprises for a range of application workloads. Further, the perc ...

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: Charlie Burns Adoption of Cloud-based solutions continues to expand. And, Saugatuck’s ongoing primary research (e.g., surveys and discussions with users and vendors) continues to show that Public Clouds are being adopted by enterprises for a rang ...

Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck’s ongoing surveys and discussions with users and vendors continue to highlight the increasing popularity of Cloud IT. Further, it is clear that Private Clouds are being implemented by enterprises for reasons ranging from c ...