Tags:Small and Mid-Sized Business
Authors: Bruce Guptill and Frank Sempert Saugatuck recently held a roundtable discussion event in Frankfurt with executives from 20 ISVs and regional small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), or as they are referred to in Germany – KMUs (Kleine und mittelg ...
Author: Robert Cohen A number of cloud providers are developing a broad range of applications that they will sell to small and medium-sized businesses as well as alliances with systems integrators that can help firms move their apps into the cloud. The s ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s survey data analysis indicates that small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are focusing a much larger percentage of their Social Business IT investments on customer-focused applications than are larger enterprises. The da ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: Robert McNeill A Cloud-enabled, socially-driven, emerging capital formation technique called Crowdfunding is showing signs of disrupting traditional capital investment and funding models, potentially changing how (and how quickly) new businesses ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Executives in small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to learn that the Cloud is neither an amorphous, abstract concept, nor a ticket to instant competitive balance with large enterprises. This Strategic Perspective aggregate ...
Author: Bruce Guptill CEOs of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) recently interviewed by Saugatuck are cautiously bullish on their own business, the economy, and on Cloud IT. But despite enthusiasm, SMBs still lag well behind large enterprises in Clou ...
Author: Bruce Guptill This summary data report, exclusive to Saugatuck CRS clients, provides fact-based insight into how, when, and why small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are buying and using software-as-a-service – and, in many cases, are NOT enjoyin ...
Author: Bruce GuptillSaugatuck research indicates that small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are much more likely to focus on sales, revenue, and profitability growth goals than are large enterprises (LEs). This Strategic Perspective uses recent Saugatuck ...
Author: Bruce Guptill Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) have indicated to Saugatuck that they are behind larger enterprises (LEs) when it comes to awareness, plans, and deployment of software-as-a-service. Yet SMB executives also indicate that they e ...