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Devendra D
Executive Director & Founder e-Zest: Offshor software product engineering & custom enterprise application development
What is Enterprise 2.0 and does this really extends Web2.0 to enterprises?
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Aaron E
Vice President, Webglimmer Internet Solutions (aeden@webglimmerinc.com)
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Enterprise 2.0 is the use of Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, rss, communities, etc to help make the enterprise more efficient. For example: You could setup a "linked-in" style community for all of the employees of an enterprise to help them find other people in the organization that might have insights into a project they are working on...
As Aaron already pointed out, Enterprise 2.0 is using Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, wikis and rss in the enterprise.
They do extend web 2.0 to enterprise. I have seen wiki's working in enterprises as good knowledge sharing tools, helping enterprises effectively do knowledge management. Blogs have become a very effective channel for senior executives to share important messages informally.
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There is no such thing as "Enterprise 2.0" just like there is no such thing as "Web 2.0." Both are just meaningless buzzwords that carry no useful content or meaning whatsoever. They're useful in marketing in order to be "buzzword compliant" for for anybody trying to get real work done, it's best to avoid both terms.
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Just another marketing buzzword;
Using Web 2.0 tools (user generated content, dynamic sites, personalisation) internally in an enterprise is not new - getting your enterprise to actually use the tools effectively is a challenge that has existed since "Web 2.0" became possible back around the mid 90's
Enterprise 2.0 technologies are used in many organizations today for the purpose of knowledge sharing. Interactive and flashy interfaces make these applications persuasive to the users. The organization thus fulfills its objective of making people interact and contribute towards the organizational knowledge pool.
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Stephen L
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As noted already, Enterprise 2.0 is a bit of a buzzword, however I'm not sure the definition is nailed down yet. My view of what it is or might be is much more aligned to the notion of unified management rather than exploitation of Web 2.0 technologies per se. Web 2.0 may certainly be a part of that but what is really key in determining any next generation enterprise solution is the ability to design and manage at the enterprise rather than the system, service or application level...
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I agree with most of the above, however there is a marked difference between having the web2.0 tools available within an enterprise and the enterprise actually leveraging these tools to good effect.
As what we have come to know as Web2.0 is bottom-up and end-user generated, it is at odds with organisational structures where strategy, policy and direction decisions are made at a high level.
This presents significant challenges for organisations (mine included as I'm currently looking to implement a portal with web2.0 features) that need to be addressed and overcome.
I wrote a blog (refer above) that spells out this in more detail.
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What is even more interesting is the linkage of Enterprise 2.0 and Business Intelligence - with the cost of tranditional BI packages on the rise, coupled with mergers of the Big 5 dotting the landscape, more and more open source providers in the BI space are starting to emerge, or gaining some traction.
And it makes sense.
What is the biggest complaint folks have today in the BI applications in their organizations? It is usually nice or something they preface to soften their real opinion, when in fact, they don't use it or havent adopt fully, because, simply stated, the application hinders them from doing all of their day to day duties, even though it was positioned to save them days or weeks of human ETL processes with spreadmarts. Often, these overstated ROIs are never achieved, thus rendering the product as a capital expense in year 1 and an operational expense (maintainence) for subsequent years.
WIth the open source arena, you dont have such herculean goals to achieve in order to prove value to an organization. You try before you buy, as there will always be some cost involved, whether at the infrastructure, db / data warehouse or application layer in order to really support both SOA and the newer open source technologies. But the future is near, and those grabbing on without letting go are the future players to watch out for; the are the ones adapting agile technologies to the BI solutions space, while maintaining constant commitment to never building what the customer requirements havent explicitly prioritized as important. Since BI has to have a broad base enterprise REACH (not solution), in order to build adoption, or encourage use from your C-levels, you can think of open source BI as business intelligence for Enterprise 2.0.
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Girish C
Business Intelligence, MOSS2007 Business Consulting, Performance Management, Software Technologies
Hello Devendra-
Web 2.0 is definitely a new way to look at how web or internet technology worked for us. Few years back it was a Technology and now it is part of social life. "Do you google? Do you Linked In? " are probably questions and social slangs that are outcome of web 2.0. Otherwise as many said, its a buzzword that represents change in the way web operated. For some it is 'Rich Interface' or to some it is convergence on the web.
Similarly, for me, E2.0 is also a changed way of looking at an organization. I woudl say it will also represent changing of certain roles. With web 2.0 the employees have access to data, information, interpretations etc.More informed employees, more colloboration across borders and organizations and ofcource content generation would mark it-->
Thanks for interesting question!
girish
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I do agree Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are just a words given to User generated, social sharing concept.
These new interaction models are now being worked out how to use in Enterprise now - so to give it a tem it has used "2.0" from web 2.0 to and added to "enetrprise"
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To bring this (web2.0 culture) to enterprise will be hard because the natur of web 2.0 - it works on openness, sharing, flat structures where corporate world/enterprise world in verticals, with less sharing and openess.. It will be good to bring this model to enterprise but its going to be tough.