Category Archives: 5. Application Modernisation
Licensing in the virtual age
By Andrew Buss Having sat through countless vendor cloud pitches, there seems to be an[...]
Cloud Service Categories
There are many ways to classify cloud service offerings. The most basic is to relate[...]
Decision criteria for open source and proprietary software
The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had[...]
PaaS potential and practicality: This is a hype-free zone
One of the advantages of using Platform as a Service (PaaS) to develop and deploy[...]
Cloud computing in context
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – BCS Meeting, Leeds, July 2010 Presenter(s) –[...]
BPM Beyond Automation
BPM has an application beyond highly structured process automation. Dale Vile talks with The Register’s[...]
Secure your departmental apps
Throughout a workshop on The Register, we’ve been looking at resiliency and security for hosted[...]
Lithium helped the penny to drop
A more tangible take on social CRM While I go about my business as an[...]
Applied Cloud Computing
By Dale Vile and Tony Lock Introduction The term ‘cloud computing’ is one of the[...]
Managing change in the application portfolio
Nothing stands still forever, particularly not in IT, and with good reason. When we researched[...]
CRM market dynamics: Response to journalist inquiry
The analyst team here at Freeform Dynamics frequently gets asked for comment by journalists. This[...]
The Business of Interoperability
By Dale Vile and Jon Collins ‘Interoperability’ is a widely used word in IT industry[...]
The pre-integration balancing act
For as long as I have been in IT, the ‘right’ way to drive things[...]
The software licensing minefield
Software vendors make their money from licensing software for individual and corporate use. From the[...]
Information versus the silos
The idea that ‘information is important and we want to do more useful things with[...]
Understanding your information assets
Information is power, right? Well, just how powerful must most organisations feel today, given the[...]
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[...]
Application Retirement: What about the Data?
by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton Introducing application retirement: what’s really important to you? Whatever[...]
The UC survival guide. Keep it ‘in-your-face’ easy
Critical to any new implementation is support. But if the implementation is designed to fit[...]
Does your IT universe revolve around ERP?
There are a couple of major pivot points for activity within the IT landscape. The[...]
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[...]