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: Brian Dooley Talent Management is undergoing significant change as the pressures that define the BfE continue to resonate throughout the business environment. Talent Management processes are being integrated, automated, and analyzed with the same ...

Authors: Mike West, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker Recent Cloud-driven changes in services, technologies, and capabilities have shaped a radical and complete re-thinking of the roles, responsibilities, capabilities, and value of en ...

Authors: Alex Bakker and Bruce Guptill The components of the new Master Architecture have accelerated rapidly to a level of business relevance since we first described it last year (1052CLS, Boundary-free Enterprise™: Empowered by the New Master Architec ...

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 ...

Authors: Charlie Burns and Bruce Guptill What does it really cost to move IT workloads into the Cloud? What are the real economic benefits to the enterprise? And which types of workloads are better off running in traditional environments? Saugatuck rese ...

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: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s November 2012 Cloud Business Summit shared insights and guidance from dozens of experienced IT and Business leaders regarding key aspects of Cloud and business management. This Strategic Perspective boils down the intera ...

Author: Bill McNee As we ramp into the New Year, it is clear that 2013 will be a watershed transition year from a business growth perspective. Many experts believe that the global economy is poised for a rebound – led by continued strong growth in the de ...

Authors: Charlie Burns and Bruce Guptill As significant sections of the heavily populated Northeastern US are still recovering from the destruction caused by “Superstorm” Sandy, we are also approaching the traditional US celebration of bounty we call Tha ...

Author: Charlie Burns In early 2011 Saugatuck grouped the then-current technologies and services of “Cloud Enablement Offerings” into five categories. Earlier this year we updated and expanded the Cloud Enablement categories to reflect how the offerings ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Predictions of Microsoft becoming a top-three mobile vendor seem less far-fetched with the advent of Surface tablets and a slew of competitive Windows-based tablets (Wintabs) from the very partners with whom Microsoft is competing. ...

Author: Bruce Guptill The “death” of the traditional PC is one of the enduring myths shaping IT markets, provider strategies, and enterprise buying trends. Saugatuck’s analysis of PC sales data, however, indicates something much different – strong, histo ...

Author: Charlie Burns The ongoing and broadening popularity of Cloud IT continues to provide an evolving market opportunity for technologies and services that assist in selection of Cloud offerings and assist in Cloud adoption and use. In early 2011 Saug ...

Author: Charlie Burns Even as Cloud adoption continues to expand from point solutions to core business functions, vendors continue to enhance their Cloud offerings and seek a larger share of enterprise IT spending. In recent discussions with a range of p ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck has chronicled and illustrated how enterprise business is shifting to a boundary-free reality, and how IT acquisition preferences reflect that shift. We’ve also shown how there are likely to be not one, but two disruptive ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck research indicates the beginning of a shift from on-premises software through a hybridized, Cloud+on-premises phase, toward a pure-play Cloud acquisition and deployment model within the next four years. This Strategic Pers ...

Author: Brian Dooley Regional differences are important in considering how Cloud deployment and usage will develop as we move into the future. Asia has always been significantly different from Europe and North America for a wide variety of reasons. Busin ...

Author: Charlie Burns As 2012 began, our global survey of IT and business leaders provided clear indications of two types of IT organization, each with its own criteria for evaluating and implementing Cloud-based business solutions. The factors that defi ...