Authors: Mike West and Bill McNee The emergence of the Boundary-free Enterprise™ is clearly reshaping what it takes to be a successful Cloud ISV.  Not only are today’s Cloud-savvy Enterprise buyers looking for new kinds of solutions that often make ...

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: Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee What makes Cloud IT and Business work to competitive advantage is innovation – innovation in how and where these technologies and services are used to enable new and better ways of doing business, and to enable ...

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 ...

Authors: Mike West and Bill McNee As many of our readers know, for the past seven (plus) years, Saugatuck has been researching ISV and Master Brand transitions into the Cloud with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings. Our earliest research was based on dozens o ...

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: Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee The end of each year brings a multitude of retrospectives. In trade and business media, it comes in the form of editorials; in personal life, especially in the US, it comes in the form of Christmas letters and cards ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee and Mike West On November 14, 2012, Saugatuck Technology hosted its second annual Cloud Business Summit – our premiere, invitation-only event in New York City. The conference brought together more than 100 Cloud-experie ...

Authors: Mike West, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker As we noted last week, the end of each year tends to bring a fun, and often rewarding, look back at what we thought versus what has actually happened, and to make predictions about ...

Author: Bill McNee As 2012 marches to a close, a new focus on the enterprise Finance function is clearly taking place – with a range of viable and powerful Cloud-based solutions coming to market in support of upper-mid and large enterprises. As our ong ...

Authors: Mike West and Bruce Guptill To no one’s surprise, this year’s Dreamforce – the annual Salesforce.com conference / event / customer festival – is all about enterprise and social business. The company, the customers, the partners and more are ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee Buried in the somewhat disappointing financial reports from Dell and HP this week is something that Saugatuck sees as an indicator of a significant shift in how we see and measure IT markets. Dell, for example, repor ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee While interest and hype surrounding Cloud-based analytics and BI solutions today are ahead of today’s actual rate of adoption, adoption is about to catch up to and pass the hype level. Saugatuck’s 2012 research and an ...

Authors: Brian Dooley, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee The concept of business analytics and BI has never been more popular than we see it today. Analyst and media coverage emphasize gains in operational stability and reductions in costs; providers emphas ...

Author: Bill McNee, Mike West As part of our ongoing Executive Insights research program, Saugatuck’s Bill McNee and Mike West recently caught up with Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology Architect at Accenture. Published originally as a 2-part set of delive ...

Authors: Bill McNee and Mike West As part of our ongoing Executive Insights research program, Saugatuck’s Bill McNee and Mike West recently caught up with Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology Architect at Accenture. Here Daugherty offers a range of insightfu ...

Authors: Bill McNee and Mike West As part of our ongoing Executive Insights research program, Saugatuck’s Bill McNee and Mike West recently caught up with Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology Architect at Accenture. Here Daugherty offers a range of insightfu ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Bill McNee On June 6, 2012, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced as part of the company’s Executive Strategy Update that Oracle now has a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise business software development, delivery, and ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee Less than a week after laying out and demonstrating commitment to its comprehensive, Cloud-centric business and technology strategy at its Sapphire user event, SAP AG announced that it has agreed to buy collab ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Bill McNee This week, Saugatuck research executives found themselves participating in three, simultaneous industry events shaping the world of Cloud IT and business. CEO Bill McNee and SVP Bruce Guptill sat down with ke ...