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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

Author: Mike West Broker-Aggregator offerings have become an important route to market for Cloud master brands, for small business SaaS vendors and for telecom providers, system integrators and other Cloud enablers, as channels for delivery of Cloud solu ...

Authors: Lisa Pierce and Bruce Guptill Despite many carrier core competencies that make them strong Cloud IT contenders, recent Saugatuck research shows that enterprise decision makers who are responsible for Cloud IT purchase decisions rarely consid ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Microsoft has announced the Windows Phone 7 operating system (OS), a major attempt to reclaim and expand Microsoft’s presence in mobile telephony and allied Cloud IT markets. But Microsoft faces significant challenges in this attemp ...

Author: Bruce Guptill This week, Microsoft released details of its Windows Phone 7 operating system. The IT trade media, including blogs and analyst reviews, have been full of evaluations of the OS, and predictions regarding Microsoft’s role in smartphon ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill Summer, especially August, is traditionally a quiet period for IT Master Brands and the investment world. But Cloudy weather is creating significant activity, as we witnessed in the preceding week-plus: Intel acquired McAfee. ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Mark Hurd, Chairman and CEO of HP, resigned effective August 7, 2010 after an internal investigation found evidence that Mr. Hurd falsified expense reports and “acted inappropriately” with a contractor hired to assist in HP’s market ...

Authors: Mike West, Robert McNeill, Bruce Guptill The IT industry is in a major transition, impacted by several trends concurrently that have led to increasing partnering and consolidation, as major vendors seek to become the sole source for offerings up ...

Author: Mike West Platform as a Service (PaaS) is essentially a middleware-based platform to enable the development and deployment of Cloud Business Solutions. Each PaaS offering brings its own formula for delivering value. A PaaS offering may be based e ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck analysis of recent and historical browser development and usage data indicates that Microsoft has significant challenges to overcome among developers, including its partners, as the firm works hard to shift the world’s la ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill Kirwin Master Brands are those vendors (and services providers) that dominate and influence IT marketplaces, technologies and/or user accounts. In this Strategic Perspective, we apply our re-examined Master Brand framework to ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill Kirwin As new market segments mature, certain vendors will emerge as dominant players with the capability to shape and establish direction for that market. In this Strategic Perspective, we re-examine and refine Saugatuck’s M ...