Keys to Digital Transformation, Cornerstones for Digital Business
What is Happening? Digital delivery models are impacting traditional businesses. Driven by consumer demand for convenience and new consumption models, including subscriptions and usage-based...
View ArticleAlteryx Inspire – The Importance of Analytic Context
Recently, Saugatuck attended the 2014 Alteryx Inspire event in San Diego as part of our ongoing Analytics, BI, and Big Data research. The event showcased not just Alteryx offerings and customers, but...
View ArticleThe Business Problem with Big Data Analytics
What is Happening? Recent software analyst and IT media reports, including insights from a recent SAP Americas User Group (ASUG) survey, suggest that SAP’s HANA Big Data service / platform is...
View ArticleBoundary-free Enterprises and the Big Storm of 2015
With Clouds come storms, and big storms tend to blow things around. Back in 2012, we began building our “Boundary-free Enterprise™” business concept to illustrate the concept of how much Cloud and its...
View ArticleTidemark: Mobile-First, Ease of Use Analytics
As part of Saugatuck’s ongoing “Finance in the Cloud” Series, Mike West and Bill McNee recently conferenced with executives from Tidemark to learn more about the Tidemark solutions, their market...
View ArticleSecurity’s Next Era: Big Data Security Analytics
Strap yourself into your seat for the big data security analytics show, for it’s coming to a town near you. Carnival barkers from every walk of life will want you to come into their tents to see the...
View ArticleSIIA in Boston – Deciphering Data and Analytics for ISV Business
What is Happening? ISVs can, should, and do profit from the use of advanced data analytics – not only by integrating them within software and services offerings, but more importantly, by integrating an...
View ArticleTime to Rethink the “Data Center” Concept – and the Role of “IT?”
On the one hand, the IT function and organization for most firms has never been more about “data.” Big Data, data mining, advanced analytics, predictive analytics, real-time analytics, and so on rule...
View ArticleAPI with Analytics Yet?
The importance of the API economy has been apparent for several years, and API availability and use is growing exponentially. To date, this growth has been fueled by mobility, with APIs providing a...
View ArticleIn the Valley of the Blind, Autonomy is King
As Big Data continues to develop as a force shaping the enterprise, we can expect to see changes in business processes. Saugatuck has been monitoring the intersection between Big Data and intelligent...
View ArticleCatching Up With Alteryx
Earlier this week, Saugatuck had the opportunity to talk to analytics provider Alteryx. Alteryx provides a tool that combines both ETL and Advanced Analytics into a single tool, which helps their...
View ArticleThe Self-Aided Analytics Solution
There has long been a problem in making analytics solutions available and accessible to the user. This has created innumerable trends toward simplification, and left many users with inadequate...
View ArticleRisky Business: Incorporating Analytics in the Engine of Risk
As Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) continues to advance as a concept, linking financial, operational, and GRC risk management across the enterprise, new opportunities are emerging from the application...
View ArticleDigital Business: Not Your Father’s Data-driven Business
Every business becomes a digital business and the use of big data, advanced analytics, and new digital business platforms radically reshape the nature of what it means to be a data-driven business. No...
View ArticleNew Research Report Spotlights Advanced Analytics for Digital Business
What is Happening? In a Digital Business world, analytics is the lifeblood of the enterprise. Profit line managers use it to meet objectives, while finance uses it to help manage the business. Wall...
View ArticleOnline Audience Tracking – Customer Experience Truisms or Marketing Analytics...
Summary & Key Insight Everyone wants insights on their Web properties and mobile apps. Marketers once relied almost solely on page views as the key metric. Now, marketers seek endless minutiae...
View ArticleReal-time Cyberattack Defenses — Antidotes for the Antivirus Blues
Summary & Key Insight Feeling defenseless and naked in the face of determined Cyber-attackers, most IT leaders are on the hunt for a solution that will put the enterprise back in control. Under...
View ArticleThe Business Application Segments of the New Analytics
Summary & Key Insight The new analytics – machine learning, prescriptive analytics and machine intelligence – are full of potential that will continue garnering share of voice / media / news from...
View ArticleBusiness Advantages of On-the-Fly, Deep Streaming Learning
Saugatuck recently caught up with Tim Gilchrist, an industry expert who is at the forefront of using data science to discuss its current business uses, future uses and implications. Tim is a fellow...
View ArticleSalesforce + MetaMind = Next-Gen Business Learning?
What is Happening? Adding to its portfolio of advanced analytics/deep learning/machine learning capabilities, Salesforce has acquired startup MetaMind, which was launched in 2014 with $8 million in...
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