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

Author: Mike West As Cloud adoption continues to accelerate, Saugatuck has revamped its ongoing ISV programs to refresh and expand our research and guidance regarding ISV Cloud efforts. Over the years, we have identified seven areas of management challen ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Conceptual terms like “Social Business,” “Innovation,” and “Transformation” are widely used by IT providers, developers, and buyers. Yet they remain poorly defined, misunderstood, and misinterpreted – leaving the door open to signif ...

Author: Bruce Guptill As legacy business software ISVs move more rapidly toward Cloud as their core technology and business model, many tend to forget or ignore that a significant portion of their legacy customer base (and partner base) remain unconvince ...

Author: Brian Dooley Mobility is creating more, and new, needs for new software development strategies favoring agile development, Cloud deployment, and DevOps approaches.  Many of these practices represent an evolution from what was already happeni ...

Author: Mike West In this Strategic Perspective, we discuss a number of issues that make up the Cloud pricing conundrum with the intention of unraveling some of its complexity. We consider underlying costs, the elements of Cloud pricing, the value metric ...

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: Charlie Burns Recently Saugatuck observed that with its increasing popularity, Cloud IT is likely to become the third nearly-universal infrastructure architecture. The preceding two, the centralized / mainframe architecture and the decentralized ...

Author: Brian Dooley Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is gradually moving to the Cloud under pressure from a wide variety of motives. The Cloud makes it possible to begin looking at a comprehensive risk management strategy, among other things. But t ...

Author: Alex Bakker Saugatuck attended the PivotLink Customer & Marketing Analytic Summit this week in San Francisco. We came away from the event only further believing that an important shift is taking place in the BI industry – and, to some extent, ...

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: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker As we put together the final plans for Saugatuck’s 2012 Cloud Business Summit (to be held on Nov 14 in New York City), a pair of critically influential IT Master Brands is helping t ...

Author: Mike West A recent blog post in the Wall Street Journal raised the concern that Cloud innovation, in particular by Salesforce.com, may be disruptive to IT and business leader relationships, partly because they may be occurring at a pace to rapid ...

Author: Brian Dooley The new mobility of IT, including smartphones and tablets, brings a new wave of sophisticated capabilities to the enterprise, and with it, an increasing collection of “must have” apps from the consumer and self-built space. These app ...

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 ...

Author: Bruce Guptill On 27 August 2012, IBM announced its acquisition of HR/talent management software and services provider Kenexa for $1.3 billion, at a premium of more than 40 percent over Kenexa’s closing share price the previous week. While the a ...

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 ...

Author: Bruce Guptill On August 15 2012, Saugatuck looked briefly at the wide and deep range of organizational, strategic, technological and market changes announced and confirmed by SMB business management software vendor Sage North America. This Strate ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck SVP Bruce Guptill spent this week in Nashville participating in Sage North America’s annual customer and partner Summit. In addition to participating in group sessions with Sage channel and product executives, Guptill took ...