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Find below a summary of published Saugatuck research organized by 18 research topic areas. Some of the research in this library is freely available to registered members (notably our 1-2 page Research Alerts -- click here if you are not yet registered), while others are available either through a-la-carte on-line purchase ($$$) or via one of several ongoing CRS subscription research programs that we offer (Strategic Perspectives, QuickTakes, Research Reports).

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 Research Topic Areas
  
bulletBusiness Applications
bulletBusiness Intelligence / Analytics
bulletBusiness Strategy / Mgmt
bulletCommunications /  Networking
bulletEmerging Trends / Technologies
bulletIntegration
bulletIT Ecosystem
bulletIT Management
bulletIT Platforms / Infrastructure
bulletIT Spending / Priorities / Economics
bulletIT Vendors
bulletMergers & Acquisitions
bulletMobility
bulletOpen Source
bulletOutsourcing / IT Services
bulletSecurity
bulletSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS)
bulletVirtualization / Utility Computing
bulletVertical Industries
bulletWeb 2.0
bulletWeb Services / SOA


 Business Applications  (back to top)

07-30-08 Billing and Payment Hubs: Facilitating Commerce in the Cloud (M. West, 2 pages, RA-488)
07-10-08 Enterprise Ready, or Not - SaaS Enters the Mainstream (M. West, B. Guptill, B. McNee, M. Koenig, C. Burns, C. Beckham, 42 pages, SSR-460, $$$)
06-20-08 European BPM Leader IDS Scheer Targets North America and Asia (M. West, 4 pages, QT-473, $$$)
05-07-08 SaaS and Core Systems of Record: Observations from the FEI Summit (B. McNee, 4 pages, RA-462)
04-02-08 3rd Annual SaaScon Shifts the SaaS Industry Spotlight to IT Executives (B. McNee, M. West, 3 pages, RA-451)
03-27-08 EthicsPoint: Transforming Compliance into Business Process ROI (M. West, 4 pages, QT-447, $$$)
01-09-08 Plexus Online: New-Generation Manufacturing Management  (M. West, 4 pages, QT-423, $$$)
11-27-07 Managing On-Premise Products in the SaaS Transition: Kadient (M. West, M. Koenig, 5 pages, MKT-408, $$$)
11-14-07 DreamFactory: Delivering Business Essentials Across the Web  (M. West, 4 pages, QT-405, $$$)
10-26-07 Birch Street Systems: Verticalization is Key to Success for SaaS-based Procurement Solutions Vendor (M. Koenig, 5 pages, QT-399, $$$)
10-10-07 SAP + Business Objects: Formalizing the Obvious and Moving Ahead (B. Guptill, M. West, B. McNee, 4 pages, RA-394)
09-21-07 Five Challenges in Navigating from Traditional ISV to SaaS Provider: Strategic Learning from Concur Technologies (M. Koenig, M. West, 5 pages, STR-388, $$$)
09-19-07 SaaS Market Rumbles As On Demand Vendors Jockey For Position (Mike West, Mark Koenig, 2 pages, RA-387)
09-05-07 SaaS Marketplaces Emerge Amid Market Confusion and Opportunity (Mike West, 2 pages, RA-384)
08-31-07 SaaS Marketplaces: Terminology, Taxonomy and Market Growth (M. West, B. McNee, 6 pages, MKT-383, $$$)
08-29-07 Key Lessons Learned, Part 2: Financial Considerations in Navigating from Traditional ISV to SaaS Provider (M. Koenig, B. McNee,  4 pages, MKT-381, $$$)
08-01-07 Enterprise 2007: CK Prahalad and the New Value Creation (Bill McNee, 3 pages, RA-374)
07-18-07 Microsoft Enters the SaaS Marketplace Fray (M. Koenig, B. McNee, 2 pages, RA-366)
07-11-07 NetSuite IPO: A Repeat of the Late '90s? (M. West, B. McNee, 4 pages, RA-365)
06-26-07 Ketera Technologies - Redefining the Spend Management Value Chain (M. Koenig, 5 pages, QT-360, $$$)
06-22-07 The SaaS Opportunity: Focus Solutions on Complementary (Rather than Radically New) Business and IT Practices (B. Guptill, 4 pages, STR-359, $$$)
06-15-07 Key Lessons Learned: Navigating from Traditional ISV to SaaS Provider (M. Koenig, A. Perrin, 8 pages, STR-357, $$$)
05-31-07 Prolifiq Innovates with Analytics-Based 1-to-1 Messaging Solution (M. West, 4 pages, QT-353, $$$)
05-25-07 SaaS Adoption in Europe: A Closer Look at Rapid Growth (M. West, M. Koenig, 5 pages, MKT-349, $$$)
05-03-07 SaaS Pricing: The Value Metric Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg (Mike West, 6 pages, STR-344, $$$)
05-03-07 SaaS Beyond the Tipping Point: Three Waves, Four Key Challenges, Five Planning Positions (M. West, M. Koenig, 5 pages, RA-343)
04-18-07 SaaS’ Third Wave: On The Road To Personalized Workflows (M. West, B. McNee, M. Koenig, 5 pages, MKT-337, $$$)
03-14-07 Oracle-Hyperion: Saugatuck Impact Assessment (B. Guptill, 4 pages, MKT-328, $$$)
01-31-07 Open Source Critical Realities: The Effectiveness Gap (B. Guptill, 4 pages, MKT-316, $$$)
01-31-07 Open Source: Looking Back on a Disruptive Year, and Forward to More (B. Guptill, 4 pages, MKT-314, $$$)
01-17-07 Workday Goes To Market with its New Breed of HCM and ERP (B. McNee, M. West, 2 pages, RA-309)
01-16-07 Workday: A Year-end Chat With Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri (B. McNee, M. West, 8 pages, EVT-308, $$$)
12-28-06 Booming Support for Mission-Critical Application Workloads on Linux (B. Guptill, B. McNee, 2 pages, RA-304)
12-28-06 SaaS 2.0: Six Key Trends for 2007 (M. West, B. McNee, 6 pages, MKT-303, $$$)
12-28-06 SOA Reality Check: Three Waves of Adoption through 2012 ( West, Guptill, Koenig, McNee, Perrin, 30 pages, SSR-305, $$$)
12-20-06 Diamonds in the Rough: Shifting Enterprise Strategies for Deploying Applications and Business Process Functionality (E. Keller, B. McNee, 3 pages, RA-302)
12-12-06  Matching Sellers to the Enterprise Application Market Diamond (E. Keller, B. McNee, 8 pages, MKT-299, $$$)
10-26-06 Salesforce Dreams Big at Dreamforce as SaaS Looms Large (M. West, B. McNee, 9 pages, EVT-284 $$$)
10-26-06 Salesforce Announces Further Expansion of its Strategy at Dreamforce (M. West, B. McNee, 2 pages, RA-283)
09-27-06 SaaScon and WebEx: Trip Report Highlights (McNee, 4 pages, RA-276)
09-27-06 What are Multi-Tenancy and Hybrid-Tenancy? And Why Should SaaS Buyers Care? (West, McNee, 5 pages, STR-275, $$$)
09-20-06 SaaS Assessment Checklist: Flexibility and Choice are Key (McNee, 2 pages, RA-272)
08-23-06 Recent Deals Help Move Software Boundaries from Applications to Business Processes (West, Burns, 2 pages, RA-265)
08-10-06 SOA Roadmaps, Maturity Models and Guides: All Works In Progress  (O'Flaherty, McNee, Guptill, West, 7 pages,  MKT-261, $$$)
06-28-06  Microsoft Unified Communications: A Key Step Toward Mass-Market CPM? (Guptill, 3 pages, RA-251)
06-14-06 Backing-in to CPM -  CFO Conference Highlights (Guptill, 2 pages, RA-249)
04-28-06 Enterprise Upgrades: The Next IT Innovation Tsunami? (Keller, 4 pages, MKT-238,  $$$)
04-26-06 SaaS 2.0: Software-as-a-Service as Next-Gen Business Platform (Koenig,  34 pages, SSR-239, $$$)
02-15-06 Oracle’s Bold Open Source Moves (McNee, 2 pages, RA-225)
02-08-06 Saugatuck Research Points to Success for Software-as-a-Service Offering from SAP and Other Traditional Software Vendors (Koenig, 2 pages, RA-224)
01-24-06 Executives Begin to Lay Strategic Foundation for the Future Even as IT Management Priorities and Initiatives Remain Tactical (Koenig, 6 pages, MKT-218, $$$)
01-18-06 User Executives Raise Business Intelligence Prioritization (Guptill, 2 pages, RA-217)
11-02-05 SOA Adoption: Business Benefits Drive Strong Demand (McNee, Guptill, 2 pages, RA-206)
09-14-05 Oracle Acquires Siebel as Master Brand Strategy Emerges (Koenig, Cassell, Guptill, 1 page, RA-197)
09-07-05  Microsoft Targets Mid-sized Firms with Dynamic Offerings (Guptill, 1 page, RA-196)

08-04-05 i-Flex Purchase Boosts Oracle Ecosystem and Market Consolidation (Guptill, 1 page, RA-191)

06-13-05  Enterprise Application Futures: Uncertainty Rules (Keller, 6 pages, MKT-181, $$$)

04-27-05 Microsoft and SAP Link Up in Mendocino (Guptill, 2 pages, RA-168)

04-20-05 Security Breach Hits Indian BPO Provider (Isaac, 1 page, RA-167)

03-30-05 Oracle Prevails: Captures Retek (Koenig, 1 page, RA-159)

01-10-05 The Hybrid Application Environment of the Future (Koenig, 4 pages, MKT-153, $$$)

Business Intelligence / Analytics  (back to top)

12-28-07 A Look Back at Key Trends and Events of 2007 (M. Koenig, B. McNee, 5 pages, RA-419)

12-05-07 Insight is the New Value-Add: The Evolving Role of the CFO (M. Koenig, 3 pages, RA-412)

11-30-07 As the CFO Evolves (Again), Vendor Opportunities Await (Again) ( M. Koenig. C. Burns, M. West, 6 pages, STR-411, $$$)

11-14-07 IBM Agrees to Acquire Cognos: Logical, Strategic, Not Defensive (B. Guptill, 3 pages, RA-404)

10-10-07 SAP + Business Objects: Formalizing the Obvious and Moving Ahead (B. Guptill, M. West, B. McNee, 4 pages, RA-394)

05-31-07 Prolifiq Innovates with Analytics-Based 1-to-1 Messaging Solution (M. West, 4 pages, QT-353, $$$)

05-09-07 SAP to Add Business Process Performance Management with OutlookSoft (M. Koenig, B. Guptill, 2 pages, RA-345)

04-30-07 A New Wave in Analytics: Unified Performance Management (M. Koenig, B. Guptill, 4 pages, STR-341, $$$)

03-14-07 Oracle-Hyperion: Saugatuck Impact Assessment (B. Guptill, 4 pages, MKT-328, $$$)

01-10-07 IT Insights & Trends: Spending to focus on Integration, Efficiency and Effectiveness through 2007 (B. Guptill, 3 pages, RA-307)

12-06-06 Four Trends in One Merger: Business Objects Buys NSite (M. Koenig, 3 pages, RA-298)
06-28-06 Microsoft Unified Communications: A Key Step Toward Mass-Market CPM? (Guptill, 3 pages, RA-251)
06-14-06 Backing-in to CPM - CFO Conference Highlights (Guptill, 2 pages, RA-249)

06-12-06 CPM: Let it Happen . . . Strategically (Guptill, 4 pages, MKT-248, $$$)

01-18-06 User Executives Raise Business Intelligence Prioritization (Guptill, 2 pages, RA-217)

Business Strategy / Management  (back to top)

04-29-08 Saugatuck SaaS Research: Waves and Platforms in the Cloud (M. West, B. Guptill, 5 pages, STR-458, $$$)
02-20-08 Disruptive Influences: More, Faster, Bigger - and Changing (B. Guptill, 2 pages, RA-436)
01-31-08 SaaS Platforms Evolve to Embrace Cloud-Based Development (M. West, 5-pages, MKT-432, $$$)
01-24-08 Understanding Master Brands: A Saugatuck Framework for IT Ecosystem Positioning and Power (B. Guptill, 8 pages, STR-428, $$$)
12-12-07 Traditional ISV Transition to SaaS: Reinvent or Virtualize? (C. Burns, M. West, B. McNee, 3 pages, RA-413)
10-31-07 ISV Transitioning to SaaS: Common Threads and Best Practices (B. McNee, M. West, M. Koenig, 3 pages, RA-402)
10-03-07 Saugatuck Reader Survey: A Changing of the Guard (B. McNee, 2 pages, RA-392)
08-01-07 Enterprise 2007: CK Prahalad and the New Value Creation (Bill McNee, 3 pages, RA-374)
04-23-07 Open Source Business Models: Riding Multiple Horses (B. Guptill, 5 pages, STR-339, $$$)
03-14-07 C-Team Research: Growing Top-line Revenues Paramount (B. Guptill, 3 pages, RA-327)
02-28-07 C-Team Research: Growth and Innovation Driving the Global Business Agenda (B. McNee, B. Guptill, M. Koenig, M. West, 15 pages, MKT-325, $$$)
02-28-07 Niche SaaS Markets Heat Up As Master Brands Begin To Weigh In (M. West, M. Koenig, 3 pages, RA-323)
02-21-07 C-Team Research: Innovation Divergence May Inhibit Investment (M. West, 2 pages, RA-320)
02-20-07 C-TEAM Research: Innovation - IT and Marketing Misalignments May Affect IT Investments (M. West, 4 pages, MKT-319, $$$)
02-07-07 Progress Software: Pointing Toward SaaS 2.0 (M. West, 2 pages, RA-318)
02-07-07 C-Team Research: “Here In IT, We are All Above Average” (M. Koenig, B. Guptill, 2 pages, RA-317)
01-31-07 IBM SofTek Acquisition Plays to SaaS 2.0 and IT Spending Trends (B. Guptill, 2 pages, RA-313)
01-10-07 IT Insights & Trends: Spending to focus on Integration, Efficiency and Effectiveness through 2007 (B. Guptill, 3 pages, RA-307)
10-27-06 "Laws" for IT Marketers and Users – Part II (B. Guptill, 5 pages, STR-286 $$$)
10-27-06 Making Gain Sharing a Viable and Profitable Contracting Option for Outsourcing Engagements (B. Digrius, M. Koenig, 9 pages, MKT-285 $$$)
09-26-06 Basic “Laws” for IT Marketers and Users: Part 1 (Guptill, 4 pages, STR-274, $$$)
09-13-06 Hewlett-Packard: Changing the Captain and Staying the Course but How to Navigate Innovation? (Guptill, 2 pages, RA-271)
08-24-06 Vendor Alliances: Annual Audits Can Yield Big Results (Dirius, McNee, 6 pages, STR-266, $$$)
08-21-06 Key Vendor Differentiators: Beyond Price, Performance, and Features (Guptill, 5 pages, STR-264, $$$)
07-12-06 Users and Vendors: Change Business to Improve IT (Guptill, 2 pages, RA-254)
07-06-06 Saugatuck Roundtable...Chang(ing) Business Models (Guptill, Rogow, 7 pages, MKT-253, $$$)
06-21-06  Saugatuck Reader Survey: Surprising Results at the Bottom . . . (McNee, Guptill, 2 pages, RA-250)
06-14-06 Backing-in to CPM -  CFO Conference Highlights (Guptill, 2 pages, RA-249)
06-07-06 SOA: IT Means to a Business End (Burns, Guptill, 3 pages, RA-247)
05-31-06 On Demand-SaaS Panel: Evidence of Market Evolution (McNee, 3 pages, RA-246)
05-24-06 Variable, Hybrid Software Future Could Stifle User Innovation (Guptill, 3 pages, RA-244)
05-03-06 SaaS 2.0: Seven Key Software-as-a-Service Trends (McNee, Guptill, Koenig, 5 pages, RA-240)
04-12-06 Software 2006 - Trip Report Highlights (Guptill, McNee, 4 pages, RA-235)
03-29-06 Flexibility Drives Eight Key Market Trends: 2006-2007 (McNee, Guptill, 3 pages, RA-233)
03-22-06 Changing IT Costs – Implications for Users and IT Vendors (Cassell, McNee, 2 pages, RA-232)
01-04-06 Back to the Future: Joint Venture AD Returns in 2006 (Koenig, McNee, Bowles, West, 3 pages, RA-215)
12-29-05 Key Trend for 2006: Tactically Strategic Investments Continue (Guptill, 2 pages, RA-214)