Is your enterprise looking to drive efficiencies in your network?
Want to understand how to create a smart or "knowing" network?
Need to unlock information trapped within your multiple back-end systems?
Dream of empowering mobile workforces around the world?
If any of these statements sound familiar, Yankee Group is the place for you. Yankee Group has a team of analysts dedicated to
the software and business services sector. We update this page regularly with new research, data and events.
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Hot Topics
Yankee Group analysts are advising clients on a number of hot topics in the software and business services area, including:
- Virtualization
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Intelligent networks
- Mobility
- Security
- Business technology optimization (BTO)
BTO as SaaS Represents a $4.6 Billion Global Market Opportunity
Why This Matters
The escalating symbiosis of network, computing and applications transitions us to new products and partners, and new ways of
managing information. As a result, software and business services companies need to increase their economic value to survive
the massive shift away from today’s declining orderly structure toward the emerging connectivity industry. To help you
embrace this change, Yankee Group is dedicated to providing valuable, actionable solutions surrounding these four core issues:
- Dismantling of computing: Virtual environments are disaggregating the traditional computing model, creating new
players and threats, and new ways to optimize technology.
- The rise of the “knowing” network: What do you need for your organization’s networks to
provide security, authentication and application and content awareness?
- The primacy of information over applications: Information reigns king as users demand control of their data
to compile it into new forms and create a user-driven application environment. As a result, applications must be network-aware,
user-aware and device-aware.
- The fluidity of the workforce: Businesses must create software and services that help rather than hamper
the deployment of an empowered, heterogeneous workforce.
Yankee Group for You
Whether you are looking to:
- Direct rather than follow the transition to new products, partners and economic models to survive the shift to a virtual environment
- Generate wealth from the creation of application and service delivery models that leverage the “knowing” network
- Create smart networks that know the context of, and provide the content needed by, the Anywhere Worker
- Connect, manage and secure an increasingly fluid workforce while fostering innovation and collaboration
Yankee Group delivers the experience, research, data and consulting expertise to help you create an actionable strategy for these
challenges and the many others still to come.
In 2012, the truly connected Digital Home will be a reality. The rise of the digital home will widely impact service providers,
CE manufacturers, network infrastructure providers and digital home companies.
The nimble will unseat lethargic, slow moving, established players as entrenched competitors who are properly positioned will
experience further success. Along the way, the market will determine who survive and who will be eliminated.
- Is your company ready to make a move for greater influence?
- How strong are your alliances?
- How vulnerable is your current product strategy to new threats from emerging businesses?
- What can you do to secure your position and thrive as the competition heats up?
Yankee Group is the only research firm exclusively focused on connectivity change and how it specifically impacts software and
business services. Our insight into the communications landscape and our expert knowledge of the network’s builders and
operators empower us to keep you ahead of the global connectivity revolution.
Have a Unique Business Need that Requires an Immediate Solution?
Yankee Group Consulting delivers game-changing advice for leaders seizing growth in the
anywhere-connected world. We address the growth, business model, market, product, and network strategy challenges and
opportunities that senior business and functional executives face. Recent project examples:
- Assessed the “state of anywhere access” in the enterprise for the world's leading Fortune 100 software company.
- Advised a leading global outsourcing solutions provider seeking new growth by uncovering immediate market opportunities and a
roadmap of long-term priorities.
- Devised a go-to-market strategy including competitive positioning and sales strategies for one the world's largest finance
and business software companies.
