Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Alex Bakker and Bill McNee After weeks of marketplace speculation, Dell Inc. has formally announced its intention to buy back its outstanding shares and privatize the company for approximately $24.4B. The move will take ...

Author: Bill McNee On Thursday, December 15, 2011, salesforce.com announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rypple, an emerging Cloud-based provider of “social performance management” solutions – with a plan to rebrand the solution “ ...

Authors: Bill McNee, Bruce Guptill, Mike West On Saturday, December 3, 2011, SAP announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion, a roughly 10X multiple to estimated calendar year 2011 revenues (and 8X ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Google helped wake up and shake up Cloud, mobility, consumer, and enterprise IT markets with its announcement early Monday August 14 that it plans to acquire Motorola Mobility. Motorola Mobility in turn announced Monday that it had ...

Author: Robert McNeill Cloud Business is fuelling a new pace of innovation that is driving business velocity, agility, and growth. The ability to use new innovation tools such as Crowdsourcing, social media and idea management software are all enabled by ...

Author: Bruce Guptill In a deal that almost perfectly illustrates the interwoven, Cloud-driven nature and approaches of business software and workflow in the 21st century, IT virtualization and management Master Brand VMware announced on Tuesday May 31 i ...

Authors: Lisa Pierce and Bruce Guptill Erstwhile rural U.S. telecom provider CenturyLink has made a decidedly sudden entrance into the Cloud by virtue of its merger with Qwest, and its planned acquisition of Savvis. In this Strategic Perspective, Century ...

Authors: Bill McNee and Bruce Guptill VMware’s announced acquisition of virtual machine management SaaS provider Shavlik Technologies early this week has been seen by many as a relatively minor news item. Saugatuck see it as an indication of how SMBs hav ...

Author: Lisa Pierce and Bruce Guptill On April 1 2011, telecom services provider CenturyLink completed its acquisition of Qwest Communications International. When combined with CenturyLink’s planned acquisition of Savvis, the merger should provide busine ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Lisa Pierce, Charlie Burns Based on the recent spate of acquisitions by US-based telcos and cable providers, Saugatuck believes that 2011 will be recalled as the year that carriers “got serious” about Cloud IT. This week, Century ...

Author: Buce Guptill Cisco announced its decision this week to shut down its Flip video camera division. To Saugatuck, Cisco’s move illustrates the dangers inherent in a non-cohesive, non-centered Cloud business and technology strategy. Cisco acquired P ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Robert McNeill, Bill McNee Based on current economic trends and recent research, Saugatuck expects to see a significant release of cash throughout 2011 by businesses of all types and sizes. Spending will include a significant ...

Author: Bill McNee Earlier this week, Saugatuck Technology was scheduled to speak at the EuroCloud France conference in Paris (April 20, 2010). Unfortunately, clouds of volcanic ash kept Saugatuck CEO Bill McNee from flying across the Atlantic to deliver ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Two once-great titans of their industries – Palm and Novell – have fallen far, and fallen hard, to the point where they are seeking buyers, and face being divested into their component parts by potential buyers. While vastly differe ...

Authors: Robert McNeill, Bill McNee Mobilizing the power of the crowd through Crowdfunding to raise finance may prove savvy marketing for new emerging technology providers (e.g., Trampoline Systems) or large firms that possess an engaged network of custo ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Since the beginning of 2007, the three largest independent public software companies in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM) have been acquired by IT master brands: Hyperion by Oracle for $3.3 bil ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mark Koenig On May 8, 2007, SAP announced intentions to acquire OutlookSoft, a privately-held planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation software vendor. Terms of the deal, expected to be completed in June, were not discl ...

Author: Bruce Guptill With some of the dust settled from the announcement of Oracle’s planned acquisition of Hyperion, we examine key reasons behind the announcement and acquisition, and assess likely effects on competitive and user markets. Our key expe ...

Author: Bruce Guptill The past year saw exceptional, strategic advancement of open source-based software among major vendors, including key Master Brands such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun. Strategic moves by these vendors and others included several ...

Author: Mark Koenig On November 30, Business Objects, a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions, announced that it had acquired NSite Software for an undisclosed sum.  With the acquisition, Busi ...