Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics
Quick take: Will Borland find a good home with Microfocus?
Having written quite recently on Borland, I felt obliged to comment on its recently planned[...]
Integrated solutions as a service – iSaaS anyone?
Against the background of ever increasing hype around cloud computing, it’s interesting listening to keynotes[...]
The business value of social software
by David Tebbutt At Lotus/IBM’s Lotusphere the words ’business value’ were repeatedly uttered by keynote[...]
Software Development Snapshot
By Jon Collins Software development is alive and kicking. Indeed, we say this every year[...]
Hoard or share? Your call
A long time ago, when I was a wage slave in a computer company, I[...]
Managing Recovery – Why do we still have problems?
Over the course of the last few months I have spent a lot of time[...]
98 months left for decisive climate action?
It was with a heavy heart that I set off to the London Climate Change[...]
A coherent approach to customer satisfaction
by Josie Sephton The need for greater customer centricity is an increasingly high priority for[...]
Infosec retrospective: time to rejoin the mothership?
What an interesting Infosec! I was asked at the end of this year’s conference, what[...]
Values-based messaging tackles the green gulf
Abraham Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' was one of the first models that helped me make[...]
Storage systems – How come Microsoft is so popular?
Storage Related Initiatives As can be seen in the figure below the catch all “General[...]
Social computing – start small, think big
Don’t be afraid of social networking and blogs in the office, says Freeform Dynamics’s David[...]
Messaging Snapshot
by David Tebbutt Messaging is a thread that runs through IT from top to bottom,[...]
The Economic Downturn and IT Service Delivery
by Tony Lock The economic outlook for many organisations has taken a decidedly frosty turn,[...]
Remove paper for cost and environmental gains
Kevin Misselbrook is customer services director at Access Accounting. He is also a member of[...]
Does Agile development have a place in your organisation?
by Jon Collins ‘Agile’ is such an uplifting, positive word, its no wonder everybody wants[...]
Mobilising the enterprise
Wireless computing is becoming an increasingly important facet of enterprise IT and communications strategy, and[...]
The Business Service Management Imperative
by Jon Collins What is Business Service Management, anyway? Business Service Management (BSM) has been[...]
Car scrappage and computer replacement
Well the chancellor has spoken and, frankly, I feel fairly unmoved. I'm no economist, so[...]
Virtualisation more important than Platform?
Reg Barometer This is one of a series of articles which draws on online research[...]
Cloud computing – the myth and the reality
This article is hosted on an external website. Please click here to view it in[...]
Preparing for Infosec – start with the end in mind
As momentum builds up towards Infosec at the end of this month, I’m reminded of[...]
Reading The Big Switch #1 – the economist’s world view
Recently I’ve got into the habit of picking up (largely from the Library) a number[...]
Why Sun Microsystems makes me angry
It’s not often in this job that I feel genuinely cross about an industry situation,[...]