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Authors: Bruce Guptill and Lee Geishecker Discussions with CIOs and business strategists at Saugatuck’s recent Cloud Business Summit conference cemented the reality that, while Cloud concepts may not be new, the ways in which Cloud solutions are acquired ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee and Lee Geishecker Earlier this week, Saugatuck hosted its inaugural Cloud Business Summit (see Note 1) in New York City, an invitation-only conference that brought together 125 senior business strategists and technolog ...
Author: Lee Geishecker Collaborative Commerce is fast becoming a business model which provides an opportunity for organizations to change the way they do business. The Cloud is a key ingredient for the formula for Collaborative Commerce success. This Str ...
Authors: Lee Geishecker, Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker and Mike West Epsilon, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliance Data and a top database marketing services provider, recently issued a press release regarding a recent data breach. Clients affected include ...
Author: Lee Geishecker Continuing on our theme of evaluating Cloud Business Solutions, this Strategic Perspective furthers this research with a framework that will help buyers evaluate providers and solutions at the intersection of Cloud IT and Business ...
Author: Lee Geishecker While Cloud-based CRM itself is nothing new, we find that many, possibly a majority, of first-time CRM buyers lack core insights to make informed and correct decisions. This Strategic Perspective presents a framework with key, init ...
Authors: Robert McNeill, Lee Geishecker, Bruce Guptill Enterprise software vendor Lawson Software, Inc. said on Friday March 14th that it had received an unsolicited takeover offer from rival midrange application software provider Infor, and Infor’s prim ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Lee Geishcker, Bill McNee According to the IT trade press and much of the analyst community, SAP this week announced a new offering directed against salesforce.com. What really happened is that, on Tuesday 1 March 2011, SAP announ ...
Author: Lee Geishecker Saugatuck’s ongoing research into the progression of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has yielded a number of insights into the challenges confronting adopters and vendors of Cloud IT. This Strate ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Lee Geishecker IBM’s recent announcement of LotusLive partnerships with SugarCRM and Ariba bolster Saugatuck’s position that threat and promise of hybridized, traditional+Cloud IT is shaping aggressive, and non-trad ...
Author: Lee Geishecker The increasing popularity of consuming, and developing on, Cloud IT has created market opportunities for multiple categories of technologies and services that provide guidance in Cloud selection and assistance in Cloud adoption or ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill, Lee Geishecker and Alex Bakker The Apple Mac App Store was “opened” as an online marketplace on January 6, 2011 as part of the free Macintosh OS X v10.6.6 update for current Snow Leopard users. Within 24 hours of the opening, Ap ...
Authors: Charlie Burns, Lee Geishecker, Lisa Pierce, Mike West, Bill McNee As 2011 draws near, we take a look forward and identify the major factors which we expect to heavily influence IT strategies for the next twelve to twenty-four months. Of course ...
Authors: Lee Geishecker, Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill In a move that clearly illustrates the emerging importance of Cloud IT to even the most traditional IT vendors – and another move toward the “Cloud and Hybrid” future for IT and IT providers – Dell Co ...
Authors: Bruce Guptill and Lee Geishecker After years of rapid and widespread growth for Cloud IT, especially software-as-a-service (SaaS), independent software vendors (ISVs) still have important questions about what it all means and what they should do ...
Author: Lee Geishecker More and more, user organizations understand the need for, and benefits of, Business Analytics as part of standard business processes and applications. This Strategic Perspective suggests that users and providers seriously look to ...
Author: Lee Geishecker On October 2st, 2010, IBM announced the acquisition of Clarity Systems, a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and a leading provider of financial governance solutions. Clarity helps companies automate the proce ...
Authors: Robert McNeill, Bill McNee, Lee Geishecker On Wednesday, October 6, 2010, Accenture and Ariba announced that Accenture has agreed to acquire Ariba’s sourcing, services and business process outsourcing (BPO) services assets for $51 million, with ...
Author: Lee GeisheckerWe recently provided an insightful look at specific Procurement functions and business needs to bring a new dimension to the discussion surrounding business effectiveness enabled by Cloud business solutions. In this follow-up Strateg ...
Author: Lee Geishecker Saugatuck’s most recent research reveals that Procurement executives believe that Cloud business solutions (or SaaS) can significantly contribute to their success by helping them better manage their primary responsibilities. SaaS ...