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Server Platforms and Operating Systems

Freeform Dynamics 13 May 2009 No Comments

By Tony Lock What’s happening today in the server infrastructures deployed by organisations, large and small? Collated in partnership with The Register, the Barometer survey results give some idea of…

Rumours of KM’s death exaggerated

Freeform Dynamics 13 May 2009 No Comments

Say 'knowledge management' to most people in our business and watch the curl of their lips. It seems to be a 'given' that KM is dead. The usual reason given…

The business value of social software

Freeform Dynamics 7 May 2009 No Comments

by David Tebbutt At Lotus/IBM’s Lotusphere the words ’business value’ were repeatedly uttered by keynote presenters, but none really had time to expand, beyond talking in terms of ’efficiency’. Freeform…

Software Development Snapshot

Freeform Dynamics 6 May 2009 No Comments

By Jon Collins Software development is alive and kicking. Indeed, we say this every year – it’s a useful counterpoint to the blog-accelerated perception that the only coding taking place…

A coherent approach to customer satisfaction

Freeform Dynamics 1 May 2009 No Comments

by Josie Sephton The need for greater customer centricity is an increasingly high priority for enterprises. Over recent years, there has been a marked shift in how companies interact with…

Messaging Snapshot

Freeform Dynamics 28 April 2009 No Comments

by David Tebbutt Messaging is a thread that runs through IT from top to bottom, from humans exchanging information with each other, down to software and even hardware exchanging status…

The Economic Downturn and IT Service Delivery

Freeform Dynamics 27 April 2009 No Comments

by Tony Lock The economic outlook for many organisations has taken a decidedly frosty turn, as the figure below confirms. So the immediate debate now becomes just how severe and…

Remove paper for cost and environmental gains

Freeform Dynamics 27 April 2009 No Comments

Kevin Misselbrook is customer services director at Access Accounting. He is also a member of the ICAEW’s IT Faculty Committee, in which capacity we were discussing environmental matters. In passing,…

Does Agile development have a place in your organisation?

Freeform Dynamics 24 April 2009 No Comments

by Jon Collins ‘Agile’ is such an uplifting, positive word, its no wonder everybody wants to use it. Manufacturers want to be agile, businesses want to be agile, and indeed,…

Mobilising the enterprise

Freeform Dynamics 23 April 2009 No Comments

Wireless computing is becoming an increasingly important facet of enterprise IT and communications strategy, and will undoubtedly become even more integral. Wi-Fi deployments have increased on the back of the…

The Business Service Management Imperative

Freeform Dynamics 22 April 2009 No Comments

by Jon Collins What is Business Service Management, anyway? Business Service Management (BSM) has been around for a while. We have previously used the following definition for BSM [1]: “BSM…

WAN Optimisation

Freeform Dynamics 10 April 2009 No Comments

There is a lot of talk concerning ’Cloud services’. But what are some of the barriers to entry? This web cast looks at how to optimise and manage wide area…

At cute corporates it’s good to talk

Freeform Dynamics 9 April 2009 No Comments

Four years ago, when IWR interviewed social computing expert Euan Semple about return on investment, he said: “If you keep the Investment low then people don’t worry too much about…

Mobile TV – who’s watching?

Freeform Dynamics 8 April 2009 No Comments

Despite regular predictions of mass market adoption of mobile TV, take up to date has been disappointingly low in the majority of markets. Since 2005, people have claimed that this…

How to ensure a smooth converged comms transition

Freeform Dynamics 2 April 2009 No Comments

by Josie Sephton Converged communications promises to accelerate business processes and remove frustration and friction from communications, but businesses need to ensure that their approach is sound. As enterprises transition…

Which desktop Linux distribution? – Hobbyist versus serious deployment

Freeform Dynamics 1 April 2009 No Comments

One of the most common objections to desktop Linux is fragmentation. With so many distributions, which one do you choose for serious deployment in a business environment? Given the amount…

Mobile operators: It’s time to get personal

Freeform Dynamics 31 March 2009 No Comments

The recession is making life harder than ever for mobile operators. Freeform Dynamics analyst Josie Sephton looks at how CRM could help. Mobile operators are all too familiar with the…

Dynamic Business Intelligence

Freeform Dynamics 30 March 2009 No Comments

by Tony Lock and Dale Vile One of the most versatile assets many organisations have in their IT infrastructure is the mainframe, which in recent years has evolved to deal…

Taking stock of the IT environment

Freeform Dynamics 11 March 2009 No Comments

by Martin Atherton and Jon Collins The business demands more and more from its investment in technology. The IT department might feel as though it is running to stand still.…

Will the BPOS cloud ensure Microsoft’s future?

Freeform Dynamics 4 March 2009 No Comments

Yesterday, Microsoft announced 'worldwide' availability of its Business Productivity Online Suite. And it barely mentioned 'cloud'. Hurrah. But it did mention software plus services which is Microsoft's way of coupling…

Wake up little Fu-Sie

Freeform Dynamics 2 March 2009 No Comments

Tomorrow sees the start of the huge CeBIT ICT exibition in Germany where 4,300 companies from around the world are expected to strut their stuff. One of them, Fujitsu-Siemens, always…

Application Platforms

Freeform Dynamics 28 February 2009 No Comments

by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton KEY FINDINGS The principle of application platforms is clear, particularly in these times Research study respondents agree that it makes sense to consider application…

It pays to think big

Freeform Dynamics 28 February 2009 No Comments

When it comes to generic requirements from IT, there isn’t really much to separate large enterprises from their smaller brethren. Generally speaking, what we all want from IT is to…