Author: Robert Cohen If telcos are to compete with the Amazons, Googles, and Microsofts of the world in providing customers with Cloud services, they will need to transform their networks to incorporate a number of new capabilities. Telcos plan to become ...

Author: Brian Dooley The Enterprise Personal Cloud is a key component of the re-engineered IT vision we have referred to as the Boundary Free Enterprise™.  As yet, the Personal Cloud is poorly understood, and has been considered mainly as an enhance ...

Author: Alex Bakker Looking back, 2012 was a year of maturation and development for Social Business IT that saw most ESN vendors evolving their offerings. At the beginning of 2012 we offered our predictions on what would be the driving forces in the evol ...

Author: Alex Bakker Despite a promised ease of communication and reduction in the volume of email, few real world applications have shown that Enterprise Social Network (ESN) use reduces email volume. Meanwhile, an abundance of information over the last ...

Author: Alex Bakker Briefings and conversations with vendors and IT end users have highlighted a growing interest in leveraging Enterprise Social Networks and their APIs to provide additional, integrated data streams to their users. As their APIs and int ...

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: Bruce Guptill Verizon Wireless rolled out its anticipated “shared data” plan this week. The plan, which emphasizes tiered data usage pricing that can be distributed among multiple user devices on the same account, is set to go into effect over th ...

Author: Bruce Guptill and Alex Bakker Saugatuck regularly handles questions from clients regarding a variety of aspects all of our research programs, including Mobility, Cloud, Social and Analytics. This Strategic Perspective summarizes and highlights a ...

Author: Steve Kovsky Cloud and the impact/importance of mobile broadband took center stage at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Saugatuck’s Steve Kovsky participated in a series of sessions and discussion on the topic, and reports back that ...

Author: Robert Cohen Telcos are already playing significant roles in Cloud IT and business services, but there remains a long road for them to travel. To play a central role in providing Cloud services, telcos will need to transform themselves in a numbe ...

Author: Robert Cohen Challenged by declining wireless and broadband revenues, telcos have sought to become important players in Cloud services. Initially, they focused on hosting services, often tied to putting applications used by large businesses in th ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck sees two important trends regarding smartphones and users shaping IT management costs now, and likely to accelerate IT complexity beyond what most enterprise IT and business organizations are prepared to manage: The per ...

Author: Robert Cohen Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) and HP have created an initiative to help service providers play a much larger role in delivering cloud services to businesses and consumers.  ALU describes CloudBand, its foundation for a new class of ‘carr ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Conversations during and after SIIA’s recent All About Mobile event in San Francisco focused on what really makes mobility different and challenging, for developers, for IT vendors, or for enterprises. In this Strategic Perspective, ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck SVP Bruce Guptill had the pleasure of participating in SIIA’s recent All About Mobile event in San Francisco Nov 15 2011, including chaired a panel on mobile payments and participating in sideline discussions and sessions. ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Charlie Burns Apple’s Siri outage highlights increasing reliance on Cloud for even the most simple tasks, such as getting directions or finding a telephone number.  It’s a terrific example of how the simplicity of a natural u ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Larry Perlstein Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the once-ubiquitous Blackberry devices and message service, announced on Oct 26, that the expected software upgrade for its PlayBook tablet computer is not expected to ship until ...

Authors: Robert Cohen, Bruce Guptill “Cloud-in-a-box” solutions from telcos and other providers will vastly increase SMB Cloud usage, and enable significant counter-cyclical economic shifts, by making it easier for SMBs to obtain and utilize private-Clou ...

Author: Lisa Pierce This Strategic Perspective assesses how Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) suppliers can emerge potentially stronger from the recession by moving beyond telephony-centric UC applications to those that knit UC with analytics t ...

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 ...