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: Alex Bakker The convergent forces of the New Master Architecture – Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics, and Integration – are driving rapid change in Enterprise and LOB IT capabilities. Simultaneously, the consequences of these rapid changes are man ...

Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without significant challenges to managing information for use in business decisions. Saugatuck ...

Author: Bruce Guptill As Cloud-based data warehousing, processing, and analytics – including Big Data – grow in popularity, we find too much inaccurate and inadequate information and insight being circulated. This Strategic Perspective assembles four Clo ...

Author: Bruce Guptill The erosion of centralized control over IT is not only not news, but considered to be a fait accompli, even an old issue. Saugatuck interviews with IT and Finance leaders, however, continue to indicate that the issue remains top-of- ...

Author: Charlie Burns Cloud IT is increasingly commonplace in the menu of alternatives for most IT organizations. However, despite the rapidly expanding cadre of “experienced users”, Cloud IT is still subject to widely-held perceptions that are NOT unive ...

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: Bruce Guptill Discussions with large-enterprise CIOs, CTOs, and Cloud providers at our recent Cloud Business Summit in New York helped to clarify an important reality regarding the role and importance of Cloud to the enterprise. Namely, we need t ...

Author: Mike West What are the opportunities for innovation and the management challenges presented by Collaboration, Social Nets and Mobility? We will explore this question at the 2012 Cloud Business Summit at the Westin Times Square in New York on Nove ...

Author: Mike West The move to the Boundary-free Enterprise™ and its enabling Master Architecture is impacting both the way business is being conducted, and the portfolio of technologies required to enable this change. On both sides of the proposition – o ...

Author: Charlie Burns On Monday, 30 July, 2012, India’s Northern power grid failed and left over 320 million people without electrical power. Then Tuesday, 31 July, three of India’s power grids (the Northern, the Eastern, and the Northeastern) failed cau ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Microsoft took some of the wraps off its newest version of Office this week, showing off its Cloud-related aspects and making it available for testing. While this is an important and necessary step for Microsoft, what was revealed i ...

Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...

Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...

Author: Mike West Positioning models such as the Gartner Magic Quadrant have dominated IT business and technology buying for over twenty years. This way of viewing a market space, while positioning vendors and their offerings, says nothing about how well ...

Author: Mike West An emerging and disruptive master architecture – combining Cloud, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics plus Integration to on-premises Data Assets – is now forming to enable the Boundary-free Enterprise™ that Saugatuck foresaw in 2008. The ...

Author: Brian Dooley Resilience is a growing organizational requirement that has come to the fore in recent years as a string of natural disasters have combined with economic issues and changing IT environments to create new threats and new opportunities ...

Author: Mike West Today’s business environment has evolved to rely heavily on data, information and knowledge to accomplish its strategic goals. More easily available data has created a highly leveraged situation in which business success depends on data ...

Author: Bill Kirwin IT asset management (ITAM) is conceptually challenged by the continuing abstraction of hard assets and other resources into Cloud-based services and hybridized operating environments. The market realities of outsourcing, virtualizatio ...

Author: Brian Dooley Asian-based IT provider Proview recently won an injunction against Apple in a Chinese court over ownership of the iPad trademark. This resulted in some retailers pulling iPads from the shelves, as litigation goes into high gear. As o ...