Creating a modern and well-managed digital workspace

Digital transformation investments have often majored on externally-facing systems such as customer engagement, but employees remain critical so must also be ‘digitally-enabled’. With this in mind, modern working practices, and the systems and services that are key to employee empowerment and productivity come into sharp focus.

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The modern SD-WAN advantage

Even if you run an SD-WAN today, it’s time to check what’s new[...]

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What’s up with Google’s plan to supplant SMS and drive mobile e-commerce?

Ask most people what RCS stands for, and you’ll probably get a blank look.[...]

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HP Inc’s Poly opportunity: look beyond devices and software to a real collaboration strategy

Could its takeover of workspace collaboration specialist Poly[...]

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The Post-Pandemic CIO

Views on leadership, communication and engagement[...]

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Hybrid working isn’t turning out as expected

Last year, as companies recognised both the value of face-to-face interaction[...]

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Modernizing the digital workplace

Accelerating your desktop delivery in the post-pandemic era[...]

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Citrix and Microsoft: who’s really leading the transformation agenda?

Citrix loves Microsoft and Microsoft loves Citrix[...]

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Do you feel trapped by Microsoft?

Thoughts on loosening Redmond’s grip on your business[...]

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Has Windows 11 strengthened the case for Chromebooks?

Analyst Opinion: I was left with two overriding thoughts[...]

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Which is worse: noise, or the sound of silence?

Analyst Opinion: If you’re one of the many people who find offices too noisy[...]

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Customer and employee experience

Time to join the dots[...]

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Google Calendar auto-adds shared meeting notes

Analyst Opinion: If, like me, you often find yourself hunting for notes[...]

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Windows 11: could this ‘feel good’ update actually help IT pros?

Much has been written about Windows 11, and many YouTube videos have been published. If[...]

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From virtual desktops to Chromebooks and the work-anywhere web

Throwback Thursday: If there’s one thing our report from eight years ago reminds us[...]

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Should Telcos become more like Amazon?

An integration and automation perspective[...]

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The allure of the log-in-anywhere desktop

How can organisations simplify desktop management if we all still want our own devices?[...]

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The health and wellbeing impact of working from home

Last year’s pivot to working from home came as a huge personal relief, as it[...]

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Mobile moments and the past left far behind

Throwback Thursday We have looked at many reports from years ago that show that, whilst[...]

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Is work-from-home really digital transformation?

Bryan Betts discusses whether IT changes as a result of the pandemic can be classed[...]

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Business Response to the Covid-19 Global Pandemic

Qualitative data from in-depth analyst interviews[...]

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Remote working in a pandemic

Silver linings and lessons for the future[...]

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Why I’m uneasy about the Salesforce Slack acquisition

Analyst Opinion: Most coverage on the Salesforce acquisition of Slack has focused on the industry[...]

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Covid quick fix payback time

How long will people put up with the emergency fixes?[...]

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Zero Trust: securing the endpoint

How continuous authentication could help secure the work-anywhere world[...]

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A new perspective on the modern workplace

Forward-looking lessons from real-life pandemic experiences[...]

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Safe and Effective Remote Working

Addressing immediate pandemic-related needs while laying foundations for the future[...]

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Advantage: Rack Workstation

Where remote access to a rackable workstation makes sense[...]

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Digital workspace disasters and how to beat them

New roles for user management and app deployment in the digital workspace[...]

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The Audio Networking Jigsaw

What you need to know as an IT professional[...]

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The Service Integration Journey Infographic

  Content Contributors: Bryan Betts & Laura Rose[...]

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Simplifying Multi-Cloud Service Delivery

The emerging role of the Cloud Services Marketplace[...]

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The life sciences collaboration gap

Keeping up with evolving needs calls for a more joined up approach[...]

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Transportation Sector

If you work in the transportation sector, your focus is likely to be that of[...]

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Government Sector

Organizations across every sector are differentiating their products and services by focusing on their customers,[...]

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The stuff they don’t tell you about workplace transformation

Tips and tricks for getting past those ‘people problems’[...]

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Education Sector

If you work in education, particularly higher education, you’re probably focused on a range of[...]

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Insurance Sector

As an insurer, regulatory upheaval and political change are likely to be towards the top[...]

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Healthcare sector revisits desktop virtualization

There’s no definitive “right way” to provide healthcare, but if you work within this sector,[...]

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Manufacturers take a fresh look at desktop virtualization

Digital transformation initiatives come in many shapes and sizes, and if you’re a manufacturer, these[...]

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Retail Sector

It’s in the interests of every sector to become more agile, more adaptable and more[...]

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Accelerating business transformation with desktop virtualization – Banking Sector

Digital transformation programs are probably a priority for your company, as banks and financial institutions[...]

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Fast-track creation of the modern digital workspace

What once seemed impossible is now perfectly doable[...]

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Windows, modularity, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Analyst opinion For some time, my office PC had suffered from multimedia niggles. Some were[...]

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Desktop virtualization as an accelerator of digital transformation

Fast-track creation of a modern digital workspace[...]

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Disrupting workforce stereotypes through digital transformation

The workplace has always been the visible face of change, shifting between evolution and revolution[...]

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How will Apple increase its market relevance in 2018?

Belief systems have a time and place[...]

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Is HoloLens a serious business tool?

It's beginning to look that way[...]

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So long, and thanks for all the phish

How to avoid that hook at the end of a fraudster’s line[...]

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Socitm 2017 Annual Conference

Public sector IT practitioners snatch a few hours to think, listen and learn[...]

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Tales from a veteran Dragon user

It was 2001, and I was sitting there with my arm in a sling feeling[...]

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Enterprise file sync and share comes of age

The enterprise file sync and share market has truly come of age, with products and[...]

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Managing Web and Mobile Security Risk

Securing the applications and services that underpin your online and mobile presence is one thing,[...]

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Digital Workplace Transformation

The business context for Windows 10 in financial services There is a digital divide at[...]

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MWC becomes a launch event for Windows 10 devices

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) on Monday, Microsoft’s key hardware partners announced several new Windows[...]

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IBM and Cisco pre-integrate their collaboration solutions

In June 2016, IBM and Cisco announced that they were going to pre-integrate their respective[...]

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It’s Artificial Intelligence, but not as we know it

Ed: AI is figuring more and more prominently in our industry coverage at Freeform Dynamics.[...]

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UK Gov seeks pledges and charity to address the digital skills gap

The UK government has announced that more than 4 million free digital skills training opportunities[...]

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Microsoft teams up with Qualcomm and cellular carriers

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 is coming to ARM architecture through a partnership with[...]

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Desktop budget wrangles

Whose device is it anyway?[...]

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Big questions for those looking for answers in big data

“Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The process of[...]

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet to Slack and other chat-based workspace providers with the[...]

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Surface Studio increases the versatility of the Windows PC

At the company’s October 26 event, Microsoft added a new category to its lineup of[...]

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Workplace by Facebook

Workplace by Facebook is now generally available to any business or institution that wants to use[...]

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Digital transformation initiatives hampered by poor ICT skills

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published a report detailing the results of an[...]

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Data encryption must be a priority for the digital business

Organizations large and small are investing in digital transformation programs, cloud migration projects, and enterprise[...]

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AMZN, AAPL, GOOGL, FB, and MSFT

With a combined market capitalization of $2.3 trillion, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft hold[...]

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Taking Sales Performance to the Next Level

So you’ve invested in CRM, and maybe a set of sophisticated modelling and analytics tools[...]

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Facebook CIO says: “Microsoft got cool again”

Microsoft used day two of its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) to focus on announcements related[...]

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iPad Pro as a laptop replacement? WRONG QUESTION. Ditch that paper notebook!

I have used iPads for many years, but they have always been ’nice to have’[...]

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Experience with the iPad Pro

The rumour mill says that that Apple will soon launch a smaller (9.7 inch) version[...]

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APIs and the Digital Enterprise

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have been around for decades. In the early days of IT[...]

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Building a Curated Digital Hub

In a nutshell In today’s online business environment, with data spread broadly and widely, making[...]

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Tackling End User Content Sprawl

In a nutshell The problem of content sprawl has been around since the early days[...]

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Surface Pro 4 – The Good, The Bad and The Frustrating

I recently acquired a Surface Pro 4 as part of an equipment refresh here at[...]

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Readers of The Register speak out on Thin Client technology

Managing PC estates is a time-consuming, expensive and thankless task. Better provisioning and management tools[...]

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Thin Client Devices Revisited

Technology best forgotten or time for a renaissance?[...]

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Mobile Security Infographic

Content Contributors: Dale Vile & Jack Vile[...]

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Safe and Secure Mobile Working

For many of us, our work life and social life are becoming intermingled. We can[...]

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The Escalating Mobile Security Challenge

Just as IT professionals and others responsible for mobile security have come to terms with[...]

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Mobile Security and the Challenge of User Resistance

Mobile security is becoming more of a headache as the crossover between business and personal[...]

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User-Centric Mobile Security

Not so long ago, many were speculating that ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) would define[...]

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Future Proofing Your Network

Network traffic flows have become pretty complex in today’s distributed business environment, and not just[...]

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Mobile Working without the Tears

As both company and personally owned mobile devices are increasingly used in business, understanding and[...]

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Evolution of the OpenText portfolio

A few days into my first software sales role back in the 90’s, I was[...]

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Justifying end user computing investments

In a nutshell Device proliferation and loss of control over at least some end user[...]

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Virgin Media Business and its SMB proposition

Over the years, I have grown increasingly sceptical about the ability of most Telcos to[...]

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The ’feel-good’ factor is good for business

People who feel good while doing their job tend to work better, contribute more and[...]

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Devices, recruitment and staff retention

In a nutshell Some say it’s not possible to recruit and retain good staff nowadays[...]

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Snooper-proofing laptops and tablets?

Given how important the company’s data is and the ever more stringent nature of the[...]

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A new approach to verifying user identity

By Tony Lock We all know that trying to authenticate our users when they access[...]

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Inertia has its virtues, but change is happening

As the old year draws to a close it’s time for CIOs and analysts to[...]

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Creating more harmony around end user computing

In a nutshell Tensions frequently arise between business units and the IT teams as users[...]

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Rethinking desktop delivery

In a nutshell Many IT professionals are weary of the relentless Windows upgrade spiral and[...]

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User flexibility without the risk

In a nutshell Most organisations are seeing users and business groups starting to make their[...]

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The Politics and Practicalities of End User Computing

With the phenomenal rise in the adoption of smartphones, tablets and other desirable devices, many[...]

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How much of your mainstream IT capacity does mobility consume?

Few doubt the increasing popularity of mobile devices, specifically smartphones and tablets. Their numbers grow[...]

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The problem with archiving

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User desires versus business needs

Much has been written about the rise of user influence and power. Some of it[...]

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The IT vendor empathy gap

Industry analysts, CIOs and others involved in the IT decision making process are on the[...]

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Accommodating increased user influence

Business people often complain that the IT department is not keeping up with their needs.[...]

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IT-Business Alignment Revisited

In some organisations, the tension between IT and business teams has come to a head[...]

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Social media and why businesses need to embrace it

As a teenager just entering the world of business I had to go through a[...]

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Wake up, grandad: All the techies use social media

Ever since I passed the big five-o, I have noticed more and more youngsters who[...]

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User Access – Time for a change?

User expectations and the range of devices they use to access IT systems are growing[...]

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End User Computing:

This paper is written for business executives and managers with an interest in how technology[...]

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Mobile security is more than protecting local data

By now we’ve all heard the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This phenomenon is[...]

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What are APT’s?

What is an APT? APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. The goal of this form[...]

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Say What?

Recently I attended the IBM Security Systems Analyst Meet the Experts day in Heathrow. With[...]

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Security: the oft-forgotten dimension

Computer security is a hot topic today, and much talked about. There are endless emanations[...]

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Concerning Windows Phone and its relevance to the larger business

You could be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft has missed the boat with its Windows[...]

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Desktop Virtualisation

Over the decades data centres and computer rooms have taken on many challenges in order[...]

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Should you wait for a wall-to-wall Windows solution?

By Charles Brett Talking to end users and some vendors, especially from the mobile space,[...]

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Is Windows-everywhere a serious option for the modern business?

By Dale Vile Businesses bought into Windows two decades go. Many IT professionals today, in[...]

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Mobility Management Coming of Age

By Charles Brett 2014’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought together the mobile telephony infrastructure[...]

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Controlling Application Access

Application performance, availability and security challenges are quietly creeping up in the context of internal[...]

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Predictions for 2014

My views on market developments in 2014 are not sensational, I’m afraid. I offer them[...]

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Will the CMO inherit the Earth?

By Dale Vile Two narratives concerning the CIO/CMO relationship are doing the rounds at the[...]

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Are we barking up the wrong mobile data protection tree?

By Charles Brett Professional IT prefers disciplined approaches which back up, or copy, all enterprise[...]

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Voice recognition in healthcare

By Dale Vile I first discovered dictation software back in 2001 when I ended up[...]

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Social Business and unknown unknowns

By Charles Brett At an Analyst Briefing in London in late September IBM described what[...]

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Types of BYOD

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Device Proliferation and Data Fragmentation

By Tony Lock Bring your own device (BYOD) continues to attract considerable attention, but the[...]

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Unintended Enterprise Mobile Errors

By Charles Brett The arrival of mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets and beyond, is[...]

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Office 365 in context

By Dale Vile In the beginning there was Microsoft Office. Well, it sometimes seems that[...]

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The End User Security Jigsaw

Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device[...]

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Why I chose the MacBook Air over the Surface Pro

By Dale Vile Writing about two totally different machines in the same blog post might[...]

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Storage Anywhere and Everywhere

With more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services, with access via[...]

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BYOD beyond the noise

A lot has been said about the strategic advantages (and problems) of BYOD, but much[...]

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Don’t forget the desktop

By Dale Vile Ask anyone in the industry about the future of end user computing[...]

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Office Software Checkpoint

By Dale Vile The desktop productivity space has been dominated for many years by Microsoft[...]

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Office 365 in Context

Users today are working in a highly connected manner, often across a range of different[...]

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Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:

By Charles Brett In this the fifth of various (of at least six) analyses of[...]

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Mobility: Sync vs Async

By Charles Brett Since computing began there has been a non-battle between asynchronous and synchronous[...]

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Empowering your users the ‘right way’

By Tony Lock Many organisations say their people are among the most valuable assets they[...]

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Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:

By Charles Brett In the fourth of various at least six analyses of mobility and[...]

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Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:

By Charles Brett In this third of multiple assessments of mobility and RoI, three examples[...]

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Do SMBs have less of a mobile and collaboration need?

By Dale Vile Yahoo!’s decision last month to axe home working prompted a lot of[...]

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Samsung vs Apple – which brand of smartphone is preferred?

By Team Freeform People feel strongly about their smartphones. This much was clear when we[...]

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Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:

By Charles Brett This is the second of several assessments of mobility initiatives and the[...]

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Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:

By Charles Brett Experience indicates there tend to be two schools of thought about deploying[...]

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User driven IT adoption – Problem or opportunity?

By Dale Vile The latest catchy but dubious term to emanate from the vendor and[...]

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Freedom without Anarchy

Empowering employees through the delegation of authority and trust can enhance innovation and productivity. But[...]

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Getting going with Windows to Go

By Andrew Buss I’ve been using Windows 8 in various forms since the early previews,[...]

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Click to call

By Andrew Buss The last few years have seen significant changes in end user computing.[...]

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Email and collaboration options for MSPs

Cloud is a broad brush term that covers several different approaches to delivering IT services[...]

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Martini induced client-server redux

By Dale Vile If you see the phrase ‘anytime, anyplace, anywhere’ in relation to mobile[...]

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Is your user base a moving target?

By Andrew Buss The last decade has seen a dramatic shift away from desktop computers[...]

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Email is so last century

By Tony Lock Over the course of the last year or two an assertion has[...]

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Are you a filer or a piler?

By Dale Vile How many email messages do you receive in the average working day[...]

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Why you need an interactive archive

Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]

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Data Entry and Device Control

By Tony Lock When computers were first created, all attention was centred on getting answers[...]

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Windows 8 and the ‘Dad test’ stunts

While out and about shopping yesterday, I spotted a PC magazine in the newsagent advertising[...]

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Windows 8 Perspectives – The power user and the teenager

Windows 8 has been criticised quite a bit in the press for some of the[...]

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Social collaboration: From a faith-based to business-led approach

I have long been a sceptic of the ‘install it and they will figure out[...]

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Personal Use of a Windows Tablet in Business – It’s ready for operational use

There is no doubt that “Tablet” devices and “Slates” are attracting a lot of attention[...]

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The Rise of User Centric IT – Is the consumerisation of IT a benefit to anyone?

There is a long history of end users wanting, or ‘needing’, to have ‘different’ tools[...]

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Does Microsoft need to change its policy on Windows upgrade pricing to drive tablet momentum?

Microsoft is unveiling a whole new generation of Windows on October 26th 2012, and significant[...]

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How representative is social media data for marketing analytics?

You don’t have to move in specialist digital marketing circles to have come across the[...]

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Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility

Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to[...]

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Siloed approach to IT security increases business risk

It is said that the technology at the heart of IT changes at a bewildering[...]

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Analyst Headlines: Securing the Access

Andrew Buss discusses the impact of the mega trends such as the Consumerization of IT[...]

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Behind the Headlines: Securing the Access

Andrew Buss discusses the impact of the mega trends such as the Consumerization of IT[...]

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Selected highlights from IBM UK Impact 2012, London

Websphere and beyond On June 12th, IBM Southbank hosted a one-day version of its Impact[...]

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The infrastructure and management implications of Desktop Virtualisation

Desktops are now visibly mission critical Desktop Virtualisation is a topic that has enjoyed considerable[...]

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Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization has progressed from a niche way of handling exceptional user requirements to a[...]

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Working smarter, not harder

What options are there to help people work together more effectively? The emergence of new[...]

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Your office in the cloud – dream or nightmare?

Considerations for SaaS-based email and office productivity tools Why go to all the trouble of[...]

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Office 365 in the real world

A run through of precisely what it takes to move your business productivity apps to[...]

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The Consumerisation of IT – exposing a few myths

Ignoring key trends could be harmful to corporate health Is it really true that organisations[...]

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Getting mobility working for you

Breaking down the barriers to effective communications For many companies, particularly in these challenging economic[...]

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Is Big Data just Big Hype?

If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big[...]

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Keeping Score in the Public Sector

With a mandate to make public records broadly available online, yet at the same time[...]

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SaaS based Email and Office Productivity

Over the course of many months there has been considerable coverage of ‘Cloud’ based office[...]

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Understanding desktop virtualisation

Looking after an organisation’s estate of desktop and laptop PCs can be a difficult and[...]

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User Virtualization – Moving beyond device-centric computing

When business IT was young and channel partners had plenty of hardware margins to play[...]

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Information management: technology investment pays off

Obtaining budget for new technology investments can be a difficult exercise at the best of[...]

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Beyond device-centric computing: Breaking barriers to enable productivity

In this webinar, Martha Bennett of Freeform Dynamics and Harry Labana of AppSense discuss the[...]

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Rising to the information management challenge

In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that it’s important to[...]

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RIM changes its leadership, but not its course

On January 23rd, 2012, Research in Motion (RIM) announced Thorsten Heins as President and CEO.[...]

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Information management in financial services

With decision making among banks under so much scrutiny, the important question arises of how[...]

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SaaS based Email and Office Productivity Tools

If you have an old email server in need of an upgrade or have calls[...]

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Enterprise social media revisited

Over the last three or four years, many have been advocating the use of social[...]

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Supporting user-centric computing

User virtualization can make life easier for IT and end users alike Few would dispute[...]

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Building tech for the flexible worker

Remote workers need support and training. The IT department needs to secure their devices and[...]

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The consumerisation of IT: it’s a trickle, not a tide, but you still need to be ready

If media headlines and vendor claims are to be believed, organisations today are faced with[...]

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Flash and HTML5, or Flash vs HTML5?

If anybody attending the Adobe MAX conference had any doubts about Adobe’s commitment to Flash,[...]

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The Consumerisation of IT (Slides)

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Leeds, October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]

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The Consumerisation of IT

With so many people excited about ‘bring your own device’ and easily accessible cloud services,[...]

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Use of social media by analysts and analyst relations professionals

I recently had the pleasure of attending an event run by the Institute of Industry[...]

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User Virtualization

The primary driver of today’s IT leaders is to enable better business management and execution,[...]

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The Business Information Illusion

By Dale Vile KEY POINTS The pace of business today dictates devolved management and decision-making[...]

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User productivity: Achievable goal, or mission impossible?

The role – and limits – of technology as an enabler of productivity gains ‘Productivity’,[...]

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Rumours of the PC’s death are greatly exaggerated

By Martha Bennett If recent headlines are anything to go by, the days of the[...]

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End User Productivity Revisited

Despite the plethora of ‘productivity solutions’ available from IT suppliers, why is it that real[...]

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Windows 7 roll out: learning from the experts

So what’s involved in a large scale migration of Windows 7? Well, as this webcast[...]

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The Co-operative on virtualisation & Windows 7

Windows 7 migration is not just about upgrading the operating system. In this webcast we[...]

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Apples and Oranges – Are people really comparing like with like on the question of Mac versus Windows?

A couple of weeks ago, I had occasion to spend some time on a 4-5[...]

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Does Office 365 keep its promises?

Running your email and office applications in the cloud is not a new idea; Google[...]

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Business adoption of mobile devices

By Dale Vile Some of the most rapid and exciting developments in technology are taking[...]

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Mobile Computing Checkpoint

By Dale Vile & Andrew Buss KEY FINDINGS Tales of the laptop PC’s death are[...]

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Consumerism and productivity Part 1: Do users really know what technology is best for business?

Let me put my cards on the table. I do not, repeat not, subscribe to[...]

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Consumerism and productivity Part 2: How to deal with employees’ devices in the workplace

In the first part of this discussion, I covered the hard reality of consumerisation and[...]

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Information is a right, not a privilege

By Dale Vile Organisations today rely on effective management of business performance at all levels.[...]

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The other enterprise desktop

There are few topics in the IT industry that are more divisive than the option[...]

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A road warrior’s experience with the iPad

Tales from 10 months of trial and error I have now been an iPad user[...]

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Visualisation into action

Do you have lots of data but find it difficult to work out what it[...]

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Trust and security in the cloud

By Andrew Buss & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS Many companies could do much better when[...]

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Mind mapping for IT pros

Let’s clear up a couple of things to start with. The term mind mapping doesn’t[...]

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Video in the workplace

There have been many false dawns for video collaboration at work. We’ve all bought videoconferencing[...]

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The Consumerisation of IT

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – BCS Meeting, Leeds, October 2010 Presenter(s) –[...]

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Applied Desktop Virtualisation

By Tony Lock & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS With desktop refresh now on the agenda,[...]

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Buying into the cloud

A lot of companies are reporting that individual departments and even business users are adopting[...]

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Desktop Virtualisation

By Tony Lock Desktop management has long been an almost “taboo” subject in most businesses.[...]

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Why does information management matter?

Getting the right information to the right people at the right time sounds like a[...]

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Who said anything about green?

Desktop virtualisation gets you part way there anyway Green and sustainability initiatives might be interesting[...]

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What is the point of End Point Protection?

How we should be protecting our PCs Security threats have existed for almost as long[...]

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Desktop virtualisation: One size doesn’t fit all

The many solutions to be found under the term ’Desktop Virtualisation’ have been vigorously promoted[...]

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The changing shape of the desktop

By Josie Sephton, Dale Vile & Tony Lock KEY FINDINGS The desktop environment is ready[...]

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Working smarter, not harder: An alternative to the 25-hour day

The word ‘productivity’ is widely used in the industry, but what does it actually mean?[...]

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Taking advantage of the Windows 7 migration

After almost a decade of service, the end-of-days is drawing near for the long-lived and[...]

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Old PCs: When it’s time to die

Often, PCs are like old soldiers: they never seem to die. In many cases the[...]

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Shaping your next desktop upgrade

The economic downturn caused many companies to delay their desktop and notebook refresh plans, but[...]

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Interoperability: standards or proprietary?

‘Choice’ is one of those words that gets bandied around in all kinds of ways,[...]

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Firms must warm to training even in a cold economic climate

“Our people are our greatest asset” is one of the most frequently employed oxymoronic phrases[...]

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The Hardware mid-life crisis. Upgrade or refresh?

The good old PC, along with the phone, is today the main, if not only,[...]

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Lithium helped the penny to drop

A more tangible take on social CRM While I go about my business as an[...]

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XP? Thanks for the memories

Windows 7 Migration – is it time to move to 64-bit? Windows XP has been[...]

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Just how special are Power Users?

Power users are often at the cutting edge of an organisation’s revenue generation, product development,[...]

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Unified Communications: Coming of age?

Unified Communications (UC) is a term that has long been bandied about, but has yet[...]

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Want to do a desktop refresh? How would you like to pay?

Developments in both the worlds of PC technology and the global economic climate have conspired[...]

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Hypervisors: grinding through to bare metal

We are generally pretty familiar by now with the concept of virtualisation on the desktop,[...]

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Data encryption adoption represents a significant opportunity

By Andrew Buss Data protection continues to be a top of mind subject for many[...]

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How to make unified communications work for your business

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The desktop demands of board-level managers

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The UC survival guide. Keep it ‘in-your-face’ easy

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Asset management And Service Management

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The great desktop refresh debate

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The IT management impact of home working

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The economics of UC

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The cost of unified comms: Start with the business not the tech

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Scoping UC

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Business Productivity An Alternative View

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Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?

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Moving to a new app? Mind the data trap

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Videoconferencing comes of age for CIOs

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Social wariness is wise for business

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Does business social networking really need IT?

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Windows 7 kills two thirds of active Vista initiatives

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Desktop Modernisation

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Are you mulling new ways of refreshing desktop and laptop estates?

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What are you doing about refreshing the PC estate?

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Reg readers take mobile makers to task

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Remote IT support ’is harder’

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Microsoft is learning to share – but not soon enough?

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Securing the remote estate – Lock ‘em down or set ‘em free?

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What do Scotland, Australia and Africa have in common?

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When PCs went mobile – Tears of joy or sorrow?

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Today’s users don’t expect things to fail

A recent mini-poll reveals, as perhaps expected, that the primary source of information used to[...]

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Everything as a service

The influence of IT in everyday business operations continues to increase. Until a few years[...]

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How much does desktop PC support actually cost?

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The great productivity myth: Are we slaves to the machine?

We know from numerous research studies that, while there are indeed ‘bad guys out there’,[...]

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Desktop minipoll results – user ignorance is bliss?

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Does the Help Desk have a future?

With the rapid development of service desk ‘self help’ tools and the even faster adoption[...]

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How’s your desktop support service desk looking?

As everyone working in IT support knows, the job would be so easy if it[...]

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Deploying VoIP in real life

Mainstream-ready VoIP offerings are becoming more widely available, with greater flexibility around options and more[...]

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Desktop Management – Where are you now?

Since desktop PCs first entered the world of business, IT managers and help desk staff[...]

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Collaboration and control

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Desktop Virtualisation

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Social computing – start small, think big

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New Lotus?

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Mobile broadband or WiFi? You betcha

By Josie Sephton Our increasing appetite for sending and receiving data on the move fuels[...]

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Give workers a say in corporate IT

There can be little doubt that the personal and domestic use of technology has had[...]

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UC – FMC usurper or saviour?

As enterprises move through their comms journey, should FMC still be on the cards, or[...]

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Vodafone UK ready to walk the walk

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Enterprise Mobility Strategy

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Unified Communications in Context

By Dale Vile We here at Freeform Dynamics have been tracking developments in the unified[...]

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Lotus knows, but do you?

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Building businesses from little to no starting capital

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Mobile operators: Tune in to the customer

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Audience power and the death of deference

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Catching your clients at moments of need

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The truth behind the Google/Microsoft/NHS rumours

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Scoping UC – all bases covered?

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The evolving role of the mobile operator

Mobile operators have their roots firmly in the utility services space. Indeed, many business customers[...]

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In-building coverage: What’s the problem?

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Virtual events aren’t real events shoved online

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Is there hope for unified comms?

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Is telehealth coming at last?

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Moments of Need

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Collaboration – get it together

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A realistic exploration of the Desktop Linux opportunity

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Dan Bricklin (inventor of PC spreadsheet) on technology

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Getting real about Linux on the desktop

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Linux on the Desktop

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Cloud: evolution not revolution

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Microsoft: Leopard: Spots

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Rumours of KM’s death exaggerated

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The business value of social software

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Mobilising the enterprise

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At cute corporates it’s good to talk

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Mobile TV – who’s watching?

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Which desktop Linux distribution? – Hobbyist versus serious deployment

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Will the BPOS cloud ensure Microsoft’s future?

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Wake up little Fu-Sie

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It pays to think big

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Are Apple and Sony worth the price premium?

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Reg Reader poll on notebook quality: results are in

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VDI’s Biggest Challenge

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Taking note of notebooks – Get a handle on remote assets

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Mobile operators drive for customer centricity

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You did what? The trials of supporting remote users

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Don’t let Microsoft timescales dictate your Windows migration

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Forget the cloud: what’s in it for you?

Rackspace is never backward in coming forward with suggestions that help it grow its business.[...]

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A coherent approach to customer satisfaction

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Mobile broadband or WiFi? You betcha – Horses for wireless courses

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Joining the dots of business communications

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Dodging Stockholm Syndrome at Lotusphere

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Inverting the business hierarchy

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Whose notebook is it anyway?

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Google gets real on Apps go-to-market

I was interested and encouraged to see the announcement this week from Google of its[...]

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The knowledge worker and Enterprise 2.0

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Windows 7. Microsoft, rabbit, hat?

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Do you need video in your enterprise?

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Enterprise 2.0 and the issue of workforce composition

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Breaking out of the social media echo chamber

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The Video Market—Hot or Not in 2009?

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Getting the unified comms message across

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Free Unified Communications?

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It wasn’t about the mouse

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Information at your fingertips: really

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Social applications can get everyone’s brain working

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What if the lights go out?

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Collaborative technology is all about people

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Sidestep formal structures for effective change management

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Collaboration: the old way. Why not?

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Infrastructure Optimisation Workshop

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Free to cheap sales opportunity?

If you sell weapons, pornography, drugs, products sourced from illegal logging, products derived from endangered[...]

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Mind mapping comes in from the cold

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Piggy-backing on social software

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Debating the future of small business IT

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A netbook in your life?

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Content blunderbuss hits everything but the target

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Be the star of the show

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Collaboration: hidden or open?

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Distributed software development is hard – But is there hope?

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Home-grown Enterprise 2.0 at GE

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Adobe Genesis addresses real needs

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Encrypt your memory sticks (HMG)

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