DALE VILE, RESEARCH DIRECTOR

Email dale@freeformdynamics.com, phone +44 (0) 1425 620008

As Research Director, Dale is a member of the Freeform Dynamics management team, and is responsible for defining areas of coverage and driving the company’s research agenda.

Also an active industry analyst, Dale has extensive experience in both end-user and vendor environments. In the first part of his career, he held positions as developer, architect and project manager within companies such as Glaxo and Heineken. He later moved on to the vendor community and worked in various consulting, business development and management roles at Nortel Networks, SAP, JD Edwards and Sybase.

Dale has worked as an industry analyst since the year 2000, initially with Bloor Research, and later with Quocirca, where he developed and ran the company’s core primary research business until co-founding Freeform Dynamics in 2005.

Current areas of focus: Enterprise IT Strategy/Investment, Desktop & Mobile, SMB

Recent work

ROI in context - Avoiding analysis paralysis and delusion
Dale Vile, Computing
Blog/column published February 2010 (external link)

Getting up to speed on desktop virtualisation
Dale Vile, CIO
Blog/column published January 2010 (external link)

Lighting up management’s information blind spot
Dale Vile, The Register
Blog/column published December 2009 (external link)

Crap data not my problem - Go ask somebody else
Dale Vile, The Register
Blog/column published December 2009 (external link)

Business application suppliers: What do we want?
Dale Vile, The Register
Blog/column published December 2009 (external link)

Balancing user and business expectations
Dale Vile, The Register
Blog/column published December 2009 (external link)

The unrealised potential of ERP and CRM
Dale Vile, Poll results, The Register
Blog/column published December 2009 (external link)

Setting application data free
Dale Vile, The Register
Blog/column published December 2009 (external link)

Embedded systems and telemetry checkpoint. Do you have any opinions or experiences to declare?
Dale Vile, Poll, The Register
Blog/column published December 2009 (external link)

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Jon Collins
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Dale Vile
Research Director
Covers: IT Strategy & Investment

Helen Vile
Operations Director / COO
Manages Research Execution

Martin Atherton
Service Director
Covers: IT Strategy, ITSM, BPM

Tony Lock
Programme Director
Covers: Systems, ITSM, Cloud

Josie Sephton
Principal Analyst
Covers: Telecoms, Mobility, UC

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