Author: Brian Dooley The current mobile ecosystems, principally in Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, have served the needs of rapid BYOD development well, but their utility is beginning to fracture. A monolithic experience is useful for initial growth, b ...

Author: Alex Bakker Cloud Business Applications are becoming more mainstream and expanding from the periphery toward the core of many enterprises. As this happens, the focus has shifted from an “if” to a “when” as companies increasingly look toward Cloud ...

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 ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker As we put together the final plans for Saugatuck’s 2012 Cloud Business Summit (to be held on Nov 14 in New York City), a pair of critically influential IT Master Brands is helping t ...

Author: Bruce Guptill For Saugatuck, the announcement and demonstrations of the “new” iPhone and associated paraphernalia indicate more that Apple is no longer innovating at its previous pace, most likely because they face the classic Innovator’s Dilemma ...

Author: Bruce Guptill On 27 August 2012, IBM announced its acquisition of HR/talent management software and services provider Kenexa for $1.3 billion, at a premium of more than 40 percent over Kenexa’s closing share price the previous week. While the a ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee Buried in the somewhat disappointing financial reports from Dell and HP this week is something that Saugatuck sees as an indicator of a significant shift in how we see and measure IT markets. Dell, for example, repor ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck SVP Bruce Guptill spent this week in Nashville participating in Sage North America’s annual customer and partner Summit. In addition to participating in group sessions with Sage channel and product executives, Guptill took ...

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 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 ...

Authors: Alex Bakker and Mike West Cloud, Mobile, and Social applications have competed for their places in the enterprise over the last few years. Now that these interrelated applications have emerged as part of the new master architecture, which Saugat ...

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: Robert Cohen Telcos are already playing significant roles in Cloud IT and business services, but there remains a long road for them to travel. To play a central role in providing Cloud services, telcos will need to transform themselves in a numbe ...

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 ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s review of personal computing operating system usage by developers has long shown that Microsoft Windows – in all its traditional versions – has been gradually losing market share to Linux and Mac/iOS, especially among de ...

Author: Robert Cohen A number of cloud providers are developing a broad range of applications that they will sell to small and medium-sized businesses as well as alliances with systems integrators that can help firms move their apps into the cloud. The s ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s continuing research with independent software vendors (ISVs) indicates that most are investing in one or more forms of Cloud/SaaS offering development or refinement. Of course, not all are in the same stages of Cloud mat ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Alex Bakker and Charlie Burns On June 6 2011, at the opening of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced iCloud, a comprehensive Cloud-centric business and technology environment model that spans Appl ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck has received inquiries from Cloud IT buyers regarding the most reliable and most-used sources of information in making Cloud acquisition or partnering decisions. At the same time, we’ve received numerous inquiries from Clo ...