Authors: Alex Bakker, Charlie Burns and Bill McNee Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services was granted the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification, becoming the 3rd company so far to be approved for broad federal use. The ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Conversations with enterprise IT and business leaders suggest that the rapid evolution of Cloud for enterprise business may be more misunderstood by analysts and media than by enterprise executives and decision makers. This Strategi ...

Author: Bruce Guptill If it’s May, Saugatuck must be participating in SAP’s annual Sapphire user and partner event. And if we’re talking about SAP, we must be talking about what they said they would do, and what they have actually done. Here’s what we ...

Author: Bruce Guptill SaaS/Cloud software services and providers have matured to the point where, in almost every market, ISVs offer extremely similar functionality, and now need more and better ways of differentiation. And while that functionality may b ...

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 ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill and Frank Sempert Saugatuck recently held a roundtable discussion event in Frankfurt with executives from 20 ISVs and regional small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), or as they are referred to in Germany – KMUs (Kleine und mittelg ...

Author: Robert Cohen If telcos are to compete with the Amazons, Googles, and Microsofts of the world in providing customers with Cloud services, they will need to transform their networks to incorporate a number of new capabilities. Telcos plan to become ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Alex Bakker and Bill McNee After weeks of marketplace speculation, Dell Inc. has formally announced its intention to buy back its outstanding shares and privatize the company for approximately $24.4B. The move will take ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Predictions of Microsoft becoming a top-three mobile vendor seem less far-fetched with the advent of Surface tablets and a slew of competitive Windows-based tablets (Wintabs) from the very partners with whom Microsoft is competing. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Author: Alex Bakker Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) are facing a signifcant evolution as they mature. Expanded platform capabilities, and functional uniformity between vendors has opened the door for leaders in the space to strategically focus on expan ...

Author: Charlie Burns On 23 July, 2012, VMware announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nicira, Inc., a pioneer in software-defined networking (SDN) and a leader in network virtualization for open source initiatives. Saugatuck views this ...

Author: Bruce Guptill On Monday, July 2 2012, Dell Computer announced its planned purchase of Quest Software for $2.4 billion. Quest had been reported in talks with several potential buyers since at least the first quarter of this year. In its announce ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Verizon Wireless rolled out its anticipated “shared data” plan this week. The plan, which emphasizes tiered data usage pricing that can be distributed among multiple user devices on the same account, is set to go into effect over th ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Charlie Burns, Mike West Earlier this week, several trade media outlets reported that Dell was in talks to acquire one of its core software partners, Quest Software. Quest offers solutions designed to “simplify the management of I ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Bill McNee This week, Saugatuck research executives found themselves participating in three, simultaneous industry events shaping the world of Cloud IT and business. CEO Bill McNee and SVP Bruce Guptill sat down with ke ...