Author: Mike West In adapting to client needs for compliance with Solvency II in the UK, Milliman Inc.’s financial modeling solution went from a dedicated, on-premises, PC-based to a Cloud solution on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, utilizing scala ...

Author: Alex Bakker The convergent forces of the New Master Architecture – Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics, and Integration – are driving rapid change in Enterprise and LOB IT capabilities. Simultaneously, the consequences of these rapid changes are man ...

Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without significant challenges to managing information for use in business decisions. Saugatuck ...

Author: Bruce Guptill As Cloud-based data warehousing, processing, and analytics – including Big Data – grow in popularity, we find too much inaccurate and inadequate information and insight being circulated. This Strategic Perspective assembles four Clo ...

Author: Bruce Guptill The erosion of centralized control over IT is not only not news, but considered to be a fait accompli, even an old issue. Saugatuck interviews with IT and Finance leaders, however, continue to indicate that the issue remains top-of- ...

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 ...

Author: Mike West The move to the Boundary-free Enterprise™ and its enabling Master Architecture is impacting both the way business is being conducted, and the portfolio of technologies required to enable this change. On both sides of the proposition – o ...

Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...

Author: Mike West Today’s business environment has evolved to rely heavily on data, information and knowledge to accomplish its strategic goals. More easily available data has created a highly leveraged situation in which business success depends on data ...

Author: Bill Kirwin IT asset management (ITAM) is conceptually challenged by the continuing abstraction of hard assets and other resources into Cloud-based services and hybridized operating environments. The market realities of outsourcing, virtualizatio ...

Authors: Bill Kirwin, Bruce Guptill Saugatuck Technology recently participated in a webcast titled “The Cloud Bottom Line: Calculating ROI for Business Applications in the Cloud” sponsored by Dell. There were several questions posed by the audience, whic ...

Author: Mike West Over the past several years Saugatuck has researched the impact of the Cloud on the evolving Finance function through surveys and interviews. More recently, in the spring/summer of 2011, we conducted an in-depth research into Cloud prov ...

Author: Brian Dooley As SaaS and Cloud solutions become increasingly critical for enterprise operations, Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) is becoming more important. Not only must Cloud solutions be brought into compliance with regulations and govern ...