Beyond Apple, Cheap Mobility Catalyzes Digital Business Now
What is Happening? This Research Alert is being written on the eve of this year’s highly-anticipated Apple product announcements, which should include a new iPhone priced in the $700 range,...
View ArticleWorkday Update – HCM in Full Stride, Financials Gaining Traction
Last week we had the opportunity to get briefed by Workday on its Workday 23 release, with a focus on its Financials suite. On Friday, I also took the time to fully absorb the...
View ArticleSuccessConnect 2014: View to the Future of Digital Business
What is Happening? At the SuccessConnect event in Las Vegas this week, Saugatuck was able to speak with more than a dozen customer attendees along with key executives from SuccessFactors and...
View ArticleDigital Business Models and Monetization, Part 2 – Mobile Payments
Summary In the first part of this multi-part series on Digital Business Models and Monetization (1430STR, 29Aug2014), we discussed four approaches to monetization, their strengths and challenges. We...
View ArticleWhat Does the Oxford Workforce 2020 Survey Tell Us to Do?
Summary Presented at the annual SuccessConnect event in Las Vegas, global research by Oxford Economics, and sponsored by SuccessFactors’ parent firm SAP, indicated that HR/HCM as currently practiced in...
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface: Don’t Unplug the Patient While Vitals are Improving
Saugatuck’s ongoing research model is built on a foundation that we call the Boundary-free Enterprise™, a model of “free-range” business enabled by varying, and often innovative, applications of Cloud,...
View ArticleSAP Concur Acquisition Illustrates the New Digital Business Enterprise Model
SAP has agreed to acquire Cloud-based travel and expense management provider Concur Technologies. When completed, the deal will be the most expensive acquisition ever for SAP, ranking above SAP's 2010...
View ArticleOpenStack heading for Maturity in the Private Cloud
What is Happening? Recently several large infrastructure providers have announced acquisitions or strategic directions. Saugatuck perceives these announcements from two perspectives: they...
View ArticleHow Next-gen BYOD Complicates Enterprise IT and Business Management
Summary The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has helped to bring mobility into the corporation, but the very success of mobility has begun to create problems. Businesses are trying to manage...
View ArticleIBM Needs to Learn the “Other” Software Business
A recent IBM briefing for Saugatuck helped to clarify the breadth and depth of IBM’s Cloud / SaaS portfolio, business strategy, approach, and results. We came away with two key net takeaways: 1) IBM...
View ArticleCloud Storage – Attractions versus Concerns
Summary Over the past seven years, Saugatuck has published numerous assessments of perceived benefits and concerns related to Cloud IT. As a result of recent discussions with vendors and IT managers,...
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Managing Complexity in the Cloud: DevOps + Non-Functional Testing
What is Happening? Complexity in the Cloud is growing significantly beyond simple hybrids of Cloud-to-Cloud or Cloud-to-On-Premises integrations. Cloud integration and loosely-coupled systems can...
View ArticleManaging Security’s Big Picture
Summary The security big picture is what buyers want: to be able to see where the big impact problems are before events strike. Unfortunately, most of security today is invisible, reactive, after the...
View ArticleISV to Cloud Transitions: The Saga Continues
What is Happening? On 29 September, Tibco, a provider of middleware / infrastructure and business intelligence software, agreed to be bought by Vista Equity Partners for approximately US$4.3 billion....
View ArticleHow the Geospatial Industry is Changing Digital Business
Summary People use location-based (geospatial) information regularly but often as part of activities activity without really thinking about the concept of place. Likewise, many businesses treat...
View ArticleCisco, Intercloud, and Re-thinking Cloud Business Models
Summary The Intercloud announcements made by Cisco Systems indicate not only that the company is rethinking and reinventing its own business strategy and approach, but also how the business of Cloud...
View ArticleHP’s New Mantra: Divide and Conquer
After intermittent speculation going back almost a decade, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) has announced that it will split into two separate companies: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and HP Inc. The split is...
View ArticleThe Curious Incident of the HP Announcement
The Curious Incident of the HP Announcement The immediate fallout from this week’s big #HPbreakup announcement reminds me of one of the great bits of dialogue in the Sherlock Homes story “Silver...
View ArticleWhy DevOps Matters: Practical Insights on Managing Complex & Continuous Change
Continuous deployment of Cloud business solutions is a challenging and some- times daunting task which DevOps can make manageable. Saugatuck Technology research has recently uncovered these critical...
View ArticleCloud, On-premises, and More: The Business Value of Software Deployment Choice
INTRODUCTION: CHOICES, LIMITS, AND ADAPTABILITY For decades, business management software buyers had multiple, valid choices of providers and solutions, but little choice as regards how and where that...
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