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: 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 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 ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill and Alex Bakker Ongoing inquiries from Saugatuck clients are a prime driver of our research. One of the areas under greatest scrutiny by both our CIO and IT provider clients right now is Mobility, with inquiries regarding a wide ra ...

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 ...

Authors: Charlie Burns and Bruce Guptill What does it really cost to move IT workloads into the Cloud? What are the real economic benefits to the enterprise? And which types of workloads are better off running in traditional environments? Saugatuck rese ...

Author: Brian Dooley Mobility is creating more, and new, needs for new software development strategies favoring agile development, Cloud deployment, and DevOps approaches.  Many of these practices represent an evolution from what was already happeni ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s November 2012 Cloud Business Summit shared insights and guidance from dozens of experienced IT and Business leaders regarding key aspects of Cloud and business management. This Strategic Perspective boils down the intera ...

Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without significant challenges to managing information for use in business decisions. Saugatuck ...

Author: Brian Dooley The fully virtual office is an important emerging development of the Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BFE). It has implications across the enterprise, but particularly in the IT department which must orchestrate its underlying processes an ...

Author: Bruce Guptill At the end of 2006, we looked at what was then an emergent trend in IT planning, spending, and management: the growth of “tactically strategic” investments instead of so-called “big bang” projects. After decades of massive business ...

Author: Bruce Guptill As Cloud-based data warehousing, processing, and analytics – including Big Data – grow in popularity, we find too much inaccurate and inadequate information and insight being circulated. This Strategic Perspective assembles four Clo ...

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: Brian Dooley Enterprise resilience continues to grow in importance, as demonstrated by recent events surrounding Hurricane Sandy. Resilience links concepts of risk management, disaster recovery, GRC, and agility to create a pathway through the th ...

Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck’s ongoing discussions with both user and vendor clients clearly continue to indicate that enterprises are increasingly implementing the fundamental building blocks of the Boundary-free Enterprise™. Not surprisingly, the tr ...

Authors: Mike West, Bruce Guptill There is no shortage today of models for positioning and considering IT providers. Some are very well-known and widely used. Most map a provider’s vision against its perceived ability to execute upon that vision. This ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Charlie Burns, Mike West Earlier this week, several trade media outlets reported that Dell was in talks to acquire one of its core software partners, Quest Software. Quest offers solutions designed to “simplify the management of I ...

Author: Bruce Guptill The most effective IT solutions are those that satisfy buyer and user goals and expectations.  Saugatuck recently analyzed our latest research data regarding business goals by size of enterprise, and how these relate to SaaS/Cl ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s just-completed 2012 global survey of SaaS/Cloud business solution adoption and use shows several patterns that indicate how the acquisition, use, and management of SaaS (and other Cloud-based IT services) is changing, ba ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s latest global survey of executives and managers (see Note 1) shows very clearly that enterprises worldwide are still working their way through recovery mode, emphasizing improvement in operations, market presence, and cu ...