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

Most recent work

The significance of Salesforce.com’s ’Chatter’
Dale Vile, Open Reasoning
Blog/column published July 2010 (external link)

CRM market dynamics: Response to journalist inquiry
Dale Vile, Open Reasoning
Blog/column published July 2010 (external link)

Thinking Beyond the Clouds
Supply, demand and service-centric IT
published July 2010

Those demanding mobile users
Dale Vile, The Register
Blog/column published July 2010 (external link)

Policing personal calls on business mobiles
Dale Vile, The Register
Blog/column published July 2010 (external link)

Apple in the workplace. Do you love it or loath it?
Dale Vile, Poll, The Register
Blog/column published June 2010 (external link)

The Business of Interoperability
What really matters, and why?
published June 2010

iPad: First impressions of a sceptic
Dale Vile, Open Reasoning
Blog/column published June 2010 (external link)

Unified Communications Webcasts
With Dale Vile
Podcast published June 2010

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Meet the Research Team

Jon Collins
Managing Director / CEO
Covers: BPM, Software, Security

Dale Vile
Research Director
Covers: IT Strategy & Investment

Helen Vile
Operations Director / COO
Manages Research Execution

Andrew Buss
Service Director
Covers: Infrastructure & Access

Tony Lock
Programme Director
Covers: Systems, ITSM, Cloud

Josie Sephton
Principal Analyst
Covers: Telecoms, Mobility, UC

Linsey Berry
Data analyst
Research analytics & publications

Commercial and Sales

Barry Saunders
Business Development Manager
Vendor & Enterprise Sales





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