Datacentre in a box
CIOs have a tough job delivering an expanding range of services responding rapidly to requests, says Tony Lock, Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics, who explores the pros and cons of the concept of...
View ArticleWindows 8 Perspectives - The power user and the teenager
Windows 8 has been criticised quite a bit in the press for some of the decisions Microsoft has made around user interface. As more and more...
View ArticleA more intelligent approach to security
At the RSA Conference 2012 in London, one of the key themes to emerge was that the traditional ways of doing security, while still mostly valid...
View ArticleData Entry and Device Control
Time to move on from punched cards and keyboards When computers were first created, all attention was centred on getting answers to complex...
View ArticleMining the gold seam of structured data
Many companies are missing a trick by not further developing and utilising their structured business information assets, says Andrew Buss, Service Director, Freeform Dynamics
View ArticleIT Service Management and Business Requirements
A couple of years before terms such as "Cloud", "Big Data" and "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) occupied the lexicon...
View ArticleElectronic trading dogged by information issues
Full B2B electronic hook-up is still the exception rather than the rule, says Dale Vile, Research Director, Freeform Dynamics
View Article2013 - Five things that will not happen
It’s that time again when the PR world revolves around everyone and their dog making predictions for the coming year.
View ArticleDatacentre modernisation in 2013
Most IT departments today recognise that things could be run much more effectively and efficiently, given a nirvana with free reign of budget, time and people, not to mention a stable and predictable...
View ArticleDriving better B2B integration
Analysis shows bespoke systems in the supply chain are a major delay to organisational efficiency.
View ArticleHybrid tablets and Windows 8
I have been using PCs and their predecessors since the mid 1980s. As a consequence I have come into contact with almost every Microsoft operating system since early versions of MS-DOS and have had to...
View ArticleUnintended enterprise mobile errors
The arrival of mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets and beyond, is imposing changes on organisations and especially on CIOs as business units seek to exploit what they believe mobility can offer.
View ArticleSpeeding up 'change'
For much of the last decade IT has become something of a pantomime villain, frequently held responsible as the inhibitor holding back business.
View ArticleDon't forget the desktop
Ask anyone in the industry about the future of end-user computing and the chances are that the response will major heavily on smartphones and tablets, and perhaps BYOD in relation to these.
View ArticleForget Big Data – No one is panning for gold
CIOs have been subjected to the combined efforts of a significant proportion of the IT vendor community shouting about 'Big Data' for over two years. The wave of marketing and associated evangelism...
View ArticleWhy I chose the MacBook Air over the Surface Pro
Writing about two totally different machines in the same article might seem a little odd. After all, what's the point in a comparison if it isn't done on a like-for-like basis?
View ArticleData fragmentation challenges for CIOs
CIOs need to address data management challenges associated with more staff being 'empowered' with responsibility to make changes to data sets, but with less upwards referral through the management chain.
View ArticleAre data storage specialists the new flight engineers?
Flight engineers in cockpits began to disappear in the 1980s as aircraft manufacturers rolled out new plane designs that were more automated and thereby cost efficient. Arguably the same should be...
View ArticleSocial business and unknown unknowns
At an Analyst Briefing in London in late September IBM described what seems like an increasingly hoary chestnut: social business – a term that tries to combine all the consumer-type aspects of social...
View ArticleVoice recognition in healthcare
I first discovered dictation software back in 2001 when I ended up with my arm in a sling following an accident. With some heavy writing commitments, I was desperate for something to help, and a friend...
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