By Dale Vile Getting your people collaborating more effectively is a laudable goal. If you listen to IT vendors and pundits, the rewards are high if you get it right.…
By Dale Vile While the cloud computing market is in its infancy at the moment, if or when it does take off, organisations will find themselves with some significant challenges.…
by Jon Collins and Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS SOA is as relevant in growth economies as anywhere else When researching the economies covered by this study, a clear relationship was…
By Dale Vile A senior exec from a major IT vendor recently commented in a Freeform Dynamics industry analyst briefing that it was amazing how cloud computing was touching pretty…
By Dale Vile Some niche and emerging enterprise IT suppliers, such as Salesforce.com, Google and Amazon, would have us believe that we are in the midst of a revolution. At…
by Dale Vile IT and communications vendors are positioning unified communications very heavily at the moment, but there are no magic bullets. Success is dependent on defining the problem in…
by Dale Vile The term Customer Relationship Management (CRM) may have its roots in the „big iron‟ enterprise systems space, but the underlying principles are relevant to businesses of all…
Microsoft has to steer a very careful course into the future. From its own point of view, it needs to continue to deliver value to customers while remaining profitable. From…
by Martin Atherton, Jon Collins and Dale Vile Is business process management a cure-all for modern business ills, an elitist technology play or just business as usual? Experience of and…
by Dale Vile The hype around cloud computing is pretty intensive. The IT industry and its pundits have gone crazy predicting massive disruption, shake-outs, and traditional software incumbents being undermined…
by Dale Vile The story goes that once you have experienced the Mac, there is no going back. Time and again, we hear this line from recent converts to Apple’s…
The application availability gamble The modern business is highly dependent on IT. When systems go down, the disruption can be widely felt, and even lead to tangible damage to the…
By David Tebbutt and Dale Vile Today’s newspapers are awash with green initiatives. Where computers are discussed it is generally with reference to operational power management, rather than how IT…
by Martin Atherton, Jon Collins and Dale Vile Many organisations have been driving improvements in information management to gain better control over their information assets. While things in this area…
by Dale Vile News this week that , Microsoft’s OOXML document format has been adopted as an ISO standard has sparked outcry and frustration in the anti-Redmond camp. Many feel…
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – Computing Magazine Web Seminar – February 2008 Presenter(s) – Dale Vile View more presentations from Freeform Dynamics. To view full screen,…
by Dale Vile The gobbling up by Oracle of BEA, the last significantly sized independent middleware vendor, is another sign of the trend we are seeing towards increasing consolidation in…
by Dale Vile Evangelists will tell you that Software as a Service (SaaS) is the way of the future. Indeed, some industry analysts claim that it will be become the…
Microsoft has to steer a very careful course into the future. From its own point of view, it needs to continue to deliver value to customers while remaining profitable. From…
by Jon Collins and Dale Vile During the middle part of 2007, Freeform Dynamics ran a series of Web based surveys looking at the technology trends that impact mobile behaviour,…
by Dale Vile and Martin Atherton As markets become more complex and dynamic, is the traditional periodic and retrospective management reporting approach adequate for running the business, or do we…
by Dale Vile Now that mobile email is moving into the mainstream, with technology and services widely available to businesses of all sizes, organisations looking to either invest for…
Evolution of requirements and options The use of mobile technology, to help optimise field service management and operations is nothing new, but how successful have past deployments been in this…
