Author: Alex Bakker The Boundary-free Enterprise™ relies on Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics, and Integration as the primary forces that will enable a new era of the relationship between business and IT. Though all these forces together are having a prof ...

Author: Brian Dooley Catalyzed by the Cloud, “Crowd” is a multifaceted, emerging pattern of behavior capable of providing enormous advantages to those who can corral it. It offers everything from insight to funding for a growing range of successful endea ...

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 and Charlie Burns This year’s IBM Connect event – formerly Lotusphere – clearly affirms and confirms IBM’s company-wide and –deep commitment to the inextricably intertwined IT and business realities of Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analyti ...

Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without concomitant challenges to data management. Saugatuck see seven important trends within ...

Author: Alex Bakker Over the next year, we are expecting that IT will primarily focus its efforts on tactically-focused initiatives that will support enterprises’ ability to execute in the short term. Given these limitations, many important long-term I ...

Author: Alex Bakker Looking back, 2012 was a year of maturation and development for Social Business IT that saw most ESN vendors evolving their offerings. At the beginning of 2012 we offered our predictions on what would be the driving forces in the evol ...

Author: Mike West The twenty-three trends that we recently reported on for our weekly Research Alert readers will be among the most impactful currents in the stream of changes flowing into and through technology markets during 2013. This Strategic Perspe ...

Author: Alex Bakker Despite a promised ease of communication and reduction in the volume of email, few real world applications have shown that Enterprise Social Network (ESN) use reduces email volume. Meanwhile, an abundance of information over the last ...

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: 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: Alex Bakker SharePoint’s continued dominance in the enterprise was a key takeaway from last week’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference. On the top of mind for the conference attendees, focused on delivering or extracting value from Social and Collaboration ...

Author: Alex Bakker This year’s Enterprise 2.0 conference illustrated an emerging shift in the social software space from peripheral to core. Though the market is still in its infancy, with more proof of concepts than fully functional deployments, there ...

Author: Bill McNee Like many mega-vendors, IBM is making serious investments in key trends and technologies driving the new Master IT architecture (Cloud / Mobile / Social / Analytics + Integration – see Research Alert 1054RA, published April 12, 2012), ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Latest 2012 Saugatuck research indicates that collaborative commerce is one of top Cloud/SaaS applications types under consideration and being deployed. But uncertainty surrounds what constitutes Collaborative Commerce, its realisti ...

Author: Alex Bakker Marketing from providers of Social Business IT solutions, specifically Enterprise Social Networks is difficult for buyers to relate to. It tends to focus on individual features, even when those features are undifferentiated across the ...

Author: Bill Kirwin Knowledge work continues to evolve as new tools are adopted while traditional tools continue to grow in use. Communication and collaboration have become the primary activities, consuming almost 90 percent of a typical day in the knowl ...

Author: Charlie Burns As the curtain rises on 2012, we take a look forward and identify four major forces which we expect to heavily influence enterprise IT strategies, and vie for IT resources, for the next twelve to twenty-four months. This Strategic P ...

Author: Alex Bakker, Bruce Guptill Social Business IT, a nascent industry in 2011 has come into sharper focus in the last few months and now into the New Year. This Strategic Perspective lays out the seven core areas of focus for Saugatuck Technology’s r ...

Author: Alex Bakker As users flock to social networks for communication, they are hampered by their need to retain email for external communication and maintain a “single point” of aggregation for all of their web needs outside of collaboration. Internal ...