Author Archives: Dale Vile
The significance of Salesforce.com’s ’Chatter’
Salesforce.com to me is a bit like the boy who cried ‘Wolf!”. Every press release[...]
CRM market dynamics: Response to journalist inquiry
The analyst team here at Freeform Dynamics frequently gets asked for comment by journalists. This[...]
Thinking Beyond the Clouds
By Jon Collins and Dale Vile A number of trends are having an impact on[...]
Those demanding mobile users
For years, when we asked Reg readers what worried them about mobile, “security” was top[...]
Policing personal calls on business mobiles
Responsible employer or miserly git? Communications technology makes it easy to mix up personal and[...]
The Business of Interoperability
By Dale Vile and Jon Collins ‘Interoperability’ is a widely used word in IT industry[...]
iPad: First impressions of a sceptic
Anyone who has followed my jottings over the years will know that I am an[...]
Putting ’I’ back in ’CIO’
Nice sound bite, but does the spirit make sense? On a few occasions recently I[...]
Resurrecting old jargon. BI versus decision support?
No one disputes the fact that there’s a lot of data kicking around in most[...]
The pre-integration balancing act
For as long as I have been in IT, the ‘right’ way to drive things[...]
Understanding the market for elastic cloud services
By Dale Vile The idea of utility computing has been around for a long time,[...]
Evolution of Hosted Server Computing
by Dale Vile There has been much talk and activity in the industry recently around[...]
BI versus Decision Support
As an old timer in the industry, I remember the days when the term ‘decision[...]
Enhancing performance with supply chain management
Organisations in sectors such as manufacturing, distribution and retail have got better over the years[...]
But is that really cloud? Check out this survey
Some have accused me of being a cloud computing sceptic, and it’s true that I[...]
But is that really cloud computing?
By Dale Vile The term ‘cloud computing’ is in routine use within the IT industry.[...]
Does your IT universe revolve around ERP?
There are a couple of major pivot points for activity within the IT landscape. The[...]
Business Communications in Context
by Josie Sephton and Dale Vile The proliferation of communications channels has set expectations around[...]
ERP sans frontières. Access for all
There was a time when the terms ‘ERP’ and ‘back office systems’ were almost synonymous,[...]
Reg reader tips for ERP success
When we asked Reg readers to tell us about the factors that impacted the success[...]
How not to screw up an ERP implementation
OK, so perhaps we were a bit ambitious with the title of this article. With[...]
Choosing an ERP implementation partner. Avoiding getting shafted.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been around for a long time, yet there is no[...]
ERP deniers their own worst enemy
As new ideas and technologies emerge and develop in IT, we typically go through a[...]
High Performance for All
by Jon Collins, Tony Lock and Dale Vile Most medium and large organisations need to[...]