Author: Mike West In adapting to client needs for compliance with Solvency II in the UK, Milliman Inc.’s financial modeling solution went from a dedicated, on-premises, PC-based to a Cloud solution on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, utilizing scala ...

Author: Alex Bakker The convergent forces of the New Master Architecture – Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics, and Integration – are driving rapid change in Enterprise and LOB IT capabilities. Simultaneously, the consequences of these rapid changes are man ...

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: 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 Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is gradually moving to the Cloud under pressure from a wide variety of motives. The Cloud makes it possible to begin looking at a comprehensive risk management strategy, among other things. But t ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Discussions with large-enterprise CIOs, CTOs, and Cloud providers at our recent Cloud Business Summit in New York helped to clarify an important reality regarding the role and importance of Cloud to the enterprise. Namely, we need t ...

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: Mike West The move to the Boundary-free Enterprise™ and its enabling Master Architecture is impacting both the way business is being conducted, and the portfolio of technologies required to enable this change. On both sides of the proposition – o ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Microsoft took some of the wraps off its newest version of Office this week, showing off its Cloud-related aspects and making it available for testing. While this is an important and necessary step for Microsoft, what was revealed i ...

Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...

Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...

Author: Mike West Positioning models such as the Gartner Magic Quadrant have dominated IT business and technology buying for over twenty years. This way of viewing a market space, while positioning vendors and their offerings, says nothing about how well ...

Author: Mike West An emerging and disruptive master architecture – combining Cloud, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics plus Integration to on-premises Data Assets – is now forming to enable the Boundary-free Enterprise™ that Saugatuck foresaw in 2008. The ...

Author: Mike West Today’s business environment has evolved to rely heavily on data, information and knowledge to accomplish its strategic goals. More easily available data has created a highly leveraged situation in which business success depends on data ...

Author: Bill Kirwin IT asset management (ITAM) is conceptually challenged by the continuing abstraction of hard assets and other resources into Cloud-based services and hybridized operating environments. The market realities of outsourcing, virtualizatio ...

Author: Brian Dooley Asian-based IT provider Proview recently won an injunction against Apple in a Chinese court over ownership of the iPad trademark. This resulted in some retailers pulling iPads from the shelves, as litigation goes into high gear. As o ...

Author: Bruce Guptill IT markets in general are going through a period of not just massive growth and change, but also a period of pervasive inconsistency that reduces the ability to see, manage, and account for IT, especially in the traditional ways tha ...

Author: Larry Perlstein Data privacy concerns and regulations continue to shape how, where, and when various types of Cloud IT and Cloud business are deployed and used, and at what costs. This Strategic Perspective introduces and reviews key data privacy ...

Authors: Bill Kirwin, Bruce Guptill Saugatuck Technology recently participated in a webcast titled “The Cloud Bottom Line: Calculating ROI for Business Applications in the Cloud” sponsored by Dell. There were several questions posed by the audience, whic ...