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Author: Bruce Guptill If it’s May, Saugatuck must be participating in SAP’s annual Sapphire user and partner event. And if we’re talking about SAP, we must be talking about what they said they would do, and what they have actually done. Here’s what we ...
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Author: Charlie Burns IBM continues to invest heavily in technologies underlying and enabling the Boundary-free Enterprise™, with the most significant of these being Cloud, Mobility, Social, Analytics, and Integration. IBM’s focus on these technologies a ...
Author: Charlie Burns Adoption of Cloud IT offerings began, and mostly remains, based on the attraction of reduced infrastructure costs. However, ongoing conversations with users have shown that simply selecting a Cloud infrastructure offering does not e ...
Author: Charlie Burns Cloud-based IT infrastructure has become a legitimate, viable alternative to traditional on-premises IT infrastructure. While most IT executives perceive Cloud-based offerings as a means to reduce costs, experience is showing that C ...
Author: Charlie Burns On 15 February, Amazon announced broad availability and new partners for Redshift, a Cloud-based data warehouse offering. On 4 March, IBM announced that all of its cloud services will be based on an open source cloud architecture. A ...
Author: Charlie Burns Not surprisingly, ongoing discussions with Cloud users and providers indicate that the popularity of Cloud-based solutions continues to expand. However, the same discussions reveal the increasing incidence of enterprise IT organizat ...
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: 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: 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 ...
Authors: Brian Dooley, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee The concept of business analytics and BI has never been more popular than we see it today. Analyst and media coverage emphasize gains in operational stability and reductions in costs; providers emphas ...
Authors: B.J. Dooley and Charlie Burns Open Source Cloud infrastructure solutions are evolving quickly, with a range of developments that are likely to give them added prominence. Several solutions are now emerging as strong contenders for cloud deployme ...
Author: Robert Cohen This Strategic Perspective offers a vision of what the telco of 2017 will look like. It assumes that most telcos will transform themselves into “cloud services-providing” telcos by 2017. The analysis examines trends that will lead to ...
Author: Charlie Burns On the 15th and 16th of May in Chicago, Ill., IBM hosted their Cloud Innovation Analyst Forum, an update for IT analysts on IBM’s Cloud offerings. The main and breakout sessions provided considerable detail about efforts, progress, ...
Author: Bruce Guptill The critical knowledge to come from Sapphire 2012 is this: SAP leadership is pulling out all stops when it comes to Cloud. HANA is the core of SAP’s technology and business strategy; Cloud is required to make HANA work, and to enabl ...
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: Bill McNee Like many mega-vendors, IBM is making serious investments in key trends and technologies driving the new Master IT architecture (Cloud / Mobile / Social / Analytics + Integration – see Research Alert 1054RA, published April 12, 2012), ...
Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck’s most recent survey of IT users indicates that the decision to adopt a Cloud offering is still based largely on a perceived / desired reduction in costs. However, research into Cloud offerings has shown both differences a ...
Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck’s soon to be published survey of IT users indicates that the decision to adopt a Cloud offering is still based largely on a perceived/desired reduction in costs. However, research into Cloud offerings has shown that no two ...
Author: Mike West Saugatuck has studied the Windows Azure platform in depth over the past 24 months and, based on this research, Saugatuck has found that the Windows Azure platform provides migrating ISVs with a highly-productive, robust and potentially ...
Authors: Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill, Alex Bakker Cloud-based technologies and offerings are the arena in which data integration is evolving from a simple means of transmitting information between applications into complex business capabilities that ena ...