Author: Bruce Guptill Two years ago, Saugatuck published its seminal report on critical management strategies for the emerging Cloud IT and Cloud Business era. Our net position: Anyone with any responsibility for IT and business needs to learn how to lea ...

Author: Buce Guptill Cisco announced its decision this week to shut down its Flip video camera division. To Saugatuck, Cisco’s move illustrates the dangers inherent in a non-cohesive, non-centered Cloud business and technology strategy. Cisco acquired P ...

Author: Bruce Guptill On Tuesday March 22, 2011, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced its intent to standardize and promote a series of data networking protocols, tools, interfaces, and controls known as Software-Defined Networking (SDN) that c ...

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 ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck has received inquiries from Cloud IT buyers regarding the most reliable and most-used sources of information in making Cloud acquisition or partnering decisions. At the same time, we’ve received numerous inquiries from Clo ...

Authors. Brian Dooley and Bruce Guptill Location Analytics is emerging as an important component of BI solutions as BI and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) merge into a new category of Location Intelligence. Location Intelligence (LI) is particular ...

Author: Lisa Pierce The FCC’s Net Neutrality decision (FCC 10-201) leaves current and future U.S. cloud service providers and customers facing conflicting choices when it comes to WAN services and access technology. This Strategic Perspective examines th ...

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: Charlie Burns New Cloud Enablement offerings are emerging from a growing array of providers to help user organizations adopt Cloud IT. As a result, IT organizations are confronted with inconsistent terminology and seemingly contradictory vendor c ...

Authors: Ross Inglis and Robert McNeill Adoption of Cloud IT by financial services firms is increasing, creating disruptions in the current structure of the industry. Information vendors such as Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, once the proverbial glue bet ...

Authors: Robert McNeill and Charlie Burns New consulting offerings are emerging rapidly from a wide variety of services providers to help organizations chart a course for adopting Cloud IT. This Strategic Perspective focuses on consulting offerings at the ...

Authors: Charlie Burns and Robert McNeill The power, response, and flexibility of Cloud IT raise user expectations for IT management. This Strategic Perspective identifies a framework for helping user organizations manage Cloud IT through evaluation an ...

Author: Robert McNeill, Bill McNee and Charlie Burns Two classes of Cloud Services are emerging. The first, Cloud IT Services, help IT departments run the business better, faster and cheaper through the deployment and management of Cloud-enabling technol ...

Author: Bruce Guptill We should safely assume that the concept of Collaborative IT will shape the development, delivery, acquisition, and use of IT for the foreseeable future. What will the users of this broad range of IT be like, and how will their char ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill and Bill Kirwin Communication, collaboration, and office productivity applications (e.g., word processing, spreadsheets and presentation graphics) are the bread and butter of what is often called “knowledge work.” The rapid emergen ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill and Brian Dooley Maturity and growth in Cloud IT is enabling dramatic growth in the use of advanced data analytics across all aspects of business, creating new and improved ways of understanding, predicting, and managing business – ...

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 and Robert McNeill 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 ...

Author: Mike West Today’s economic situation continues to favor the Cloud, driven by businesses that are reshaping themselves. The Cloud – including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and Cloud Services – will drive increasing business and IT activity, resulting in hyb ...