TAG: security

Tom Pisello, Chairman and Founder - Alinean

Constrained IT budgets resulted in a backlog of projects, propelling business units to work outside the system, which caused "Shadow IT." Fueling the rogue spending is the ease of procuring SaaS and the proliferation of mobile devices.

Ram Menon, Executive Vice President - TIBCO Software

When you come to work, you probably hear some say, "You should replicate Facebook inside of your company. It's the new wave! It's the revolution that will automatically transform your business!" It all sounds nice. The problem is it's a farce. The truth is, early attempts to bring social networking inside companies as a work tool have failed.

Martin Browne, Principal - Skyline Consulting

Although SaaS can reduce some of the ERP implementation effort, it does not mean that the implementation is easier just because it is SaaS. SaaS ERP is still in infancy mode.

Kamesh Pemmaraju - Sand Hill Group

Single sign-on (SSO) capabilities enable users to login once with one password to access multiple applications. But SSO alone is not sufficient as the adoption of SaaS applications and mobile applications accelerates within the enterprise.

Bill McNee, Founder and CEO - Saugatuck Technology & Mike West, VP & Distinguished Analyst - Saugatuck Technology

When confronted by transformative disruptive technology such as Cloud, how can senior business and IT executives identify opportunities to leverage technology to create new business value? As part of Saugatuck Technology's ongoing "Executive Insights" research program, we recently talked with John Schloff, VP Global Strategy at Pitney Bowes about how an industry leader such as Pitney Bowes embraces disruptive technology to create, innovate, and extend a major business brand in the Cloud.