JFDI's Blog
Opinion pieces and technical articles from JFDI staff
Planning an RPA project? You’ve got it all wrong.
Jon Silver explains why focusing on tools like Robotic Process Automation rather than business processes is bad for business.
Working together though apart
Team Huddle. Smiles and laughter. We're often asked about technology to help people work effectively from home. We use Microsoft Teams, of course, but that's only a tool. And tools do not a solution make! Collaboration systems are one of those automations that has...
Robotic Process Automation is not the solution.
The RPA fans will probably disagree. RPA (Robotic Process Automation) has been hyped as a panacea for all business automation requirements. But it's just a tool. It's as much of a solution as a hammer is a solution for your new roofing requirements. Get excited about...
Real-World AI & Automation for Business version 2!
R&D Director Jon Silver presents all the available automation technologies, how they all fit together, what’s possible and practical with real-world examples and even costings, and an exploration of all the risks and rewards
Webinar: How to Work from Home and Stay Connected – with Microsoft Teams
New to teleworking with Microsoft Teams? Not getting the best from the tools? Don’t be frustrated. You’re not alone. Let us help. In this free webinar, we’ll get you up and running fast.
Calling all 3D Printers! Covid-19 Face Shields for the NHS
Your help is needed now. Print 3D printed face shields for NHS workers fighting Covid-19, or fund the operation.
Webinar: Microsoft Teams for new Home-Workers
New to teleworking with Microsoft Teams? Not getting the best from the tools? Don’t be frustrated. You’re not alone. Let us help. In this free webinar, we’ll get you up and running fast.
Abstraction: Automate, Rinse, Repeat
Abstraction is a way of thinking about what’s common between even seemingly unrelated processes, allowing us to create generalised tools applicable to many processes. Here’s how we’ve used abstraction through the years.
Gamification and IoT
Vasilis Gkogkidis is a gamification consultant working with JFDI’s partner company and leading gamification consultancy Gamification+. Here’s his take on how gamification and the internet of things relate to each other.
Helping the homeless at Christmas
JFDI is matching its Christmas party budget with a donation to homeless charities.
SharePoint Thing-A-Day
Our Technical Director Joel has lots to say about SharePoint. So he created a series of short informative videos. One per day. It’s #SPThingADay!
BMW Joins Cars to The Internet of Things
BMW is the first car manufacturer to join its cars to the Internet of Things, with its BMW Labs IFTTT Widget for Connected Drive. See what JFDI’s R&D Director Jon Silver did with this new technology.
The Six Pillars of Great Intranets
Do you have an Intranet at work? If you have to work with colleagues on documents, chances are you do. Do you love it? Do you hate it? At JFDI we thought long and hard about what makes a good one. We’d like to share with you our top tips for Intranet success.
Microsoft Flow driven Pedometer Challenge Twitter competition
Motivate Everyone, we said. Applying Gamification to business software design to better engage users. It's amazing where that thought process can lead. We needed something to engage people to interact with us at the European SharePoint Conference and other public...
Making Software Better
Originally published as a guest blog for Brighton & Hove Chamber of Commerce Software is a tool. The programs you run on your business computers are your toolkit. They are the tools you give yourself and your employees, enabling you to do your work. Software is...
Motivate Everyone with a Better Intranet
Originally published as a guest blog for Brighton & Hove Chamber of Commerce This week we are fresh back from the European SharePoint Conference. This year it was held it in Vienna. It was a fantastic opportunity for us, we met new customers and also made a few...
Smart Building Technology
Originally published as a guest blog for Brighton & Hove Chamber of Commerce JFDI were proud to participate in the Chamber's Future of the Workplace event in September 2016. As well as answering delegates' questions about our vision of how the workplace will...
The Future of the Workplace
JFDI’s Jon Silver demonstrated Smart Building technologies to an audience of business people at a recent event in Brighton.
