|
 |
|
Focus Area: Enterprise Applications
Saugatuck's
Enterprise Application research and consulting practice focuses on
the evolution of the packaged business application market. Our
research shows that companies are increasingly looking at new ways
to create secure and flexible business processes.
In most cases, this means they are asking how best to
leverage their investment in existing traditional packaged software
while planning for next-generation capabilities that increasingly
will yield a hybrid build-buy-assemble-subscribe-outsource model.
Longer-term
trends toward service-oriented architectures, Software-as-a-Service
and "Applistructure" - the merging of enterprise
applications and infrastructure technology - pose great potential
for discontinuity for both users and vendors. In addition, business
and IT executives are continually looking for new ways to deploy and
support both core and non-core business process capabilities - with
a dramatic rise in BPO and Transformational services (both onshore
and offshore). All this while focusing on efficiency,
compliance and innovation.
Representative Consulting
Engagements
 |
Adoption Scenarios - Technology
and Business drivers |
|
"Applistructure"
Planning and Deployment Strategies |
|
User business model scenarios and
intelligence |
|
Vendor technology and business
model scenarios |
|
Vendor technology and business
model issues and scenarios, including pricing and licensing models and frameworks |
|
Partnering ecosystems |
|
Positioning and messaging |
Relevant links to Published Saugatuck
Research Topics
|
|
|
|
|
|
Featured
Research Reports
Cloud Infrastructure Services Data Report: Traditional Approaches to New IT
Firms may be deploying Cloud Computing with a lack of understanding and preparation that will cost dearly in lost time, project investment, integration, and management overhead. This report lays out key trends, challenges and needs for users and vendors, and provides guidance to effectively manage the disruptive impacts of Cloud on business and IT.
Click
here to find out more
Monetizing the Cloud: Assessing Billing and Payment Providers
Effective billing and payment solutions are essential in enabling monetization, providing agility in competitive situations, managing the channel, and reducing operational costs for any Cloud services provider. This study examines and explains the need for, and roles of, billing and payment solutions in all aspects of Cloud Computing. The study also profiles solutions of leading Cloud billing solution providers, assessing each according to eight critical selection and use criteria.
Click
here to find out more
An Endless Cycle of Innovation: Saugatuck SaaS Scenarios Through 2014
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is part of a multi-year “loop” that reciprocates between users and providers, with each side influencing the other. Mismanaging this “endless loop of innovation” prevents user firms from being able to derive competitive advantage from SaaS, prevents SaaS providers from competing effectively, and traps ISVs from growing along with the global IT market. Understanding how each side influences the others, and how to manage through changing market scenarios, is the key benefit to readers of this report.
Click
here to find out more
Bridging the Gap: Achieving the Promise of Enterprise Social Computing
The business potential of enterprise social computing (ESC) delivers quantifiable business value by improving collaboration and business performance within and between user enterprises. This report includes insights, analysis, and recommendations from Saugatuck’s social computing research program, including in-depth guidance to buyers and providers to maximize the business value of ESC.
Click here
to find out more
__________
|
|
|
|
