Enterprise Web 2.0

Cloud computing and open source face-off

Dion Hinchcliffe — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:02:46 +0000

Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the benefits and risks. This puts open [...]

Running your SOA like a Web startup

Dion Hinchcliffe — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:50:23 +0000

One of the more striking differences between IT and the online world these days is the contrast between traditional enterprise service-oriented architecture and its equivalent on the Web, open APIs. More and more lessons are coming from the online space, providing key insights into how we might invigorate the way we open up our IT systems for maximum value.

Reconciling social computing with the enterprise

Dion Hinchcliffe — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:07:18 +0000

Umair Haque wrote an impressive tract on his Harvard Business blog late last week about Twitter and how it changes the rules of innovation. It’s an incisive and challenging piece that well worth reading if your looking at cutting-edge business trends. It also helps surface what’s turning into an increasingly larger gap between what happens in the business world and what happens everywhere else. Here are six strategies to help you reconcile these two worlds.

Eight ways that cloud computing will change business

Dion Hinchcliffe — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:56:44 +0000

When a major change arrives on the IT scene it's not always clear what the implications will be, if any, and so for large organizations a risk-managed wait-and-see attitude tends to prevail. Occasionally however some shifts offer cost savings, improvements to operations, or ways to tackle business problems that offer significant strategic advantage. The larger the benefit in one or more of these areas, then the more strategic the advance is and the greater potential it will impact the bottom line. Cloud computing is one of these.

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Dion Hinchcliffe — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:49:45 +0000

Government 2.0 isn’t waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation’s first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he believed Web 2.0 can help [...]

Twitter on your intranet: 17 microblogging tools for business

Dion Hinchcliffe — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:44:46 +0000

So you're bitten by the Twitter bug and want to bring the social messaging experience to work in order to connect with and share information conveniently amongst your colleagues. Perhaps you've even obtained permission to try out microblogging in trial form on your local intranet. You sit down and begin to see how you can adopt the tools internally. It goes slowly at first...

The enterprise implications of Google Wave

Dion Hinchcliffe — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:21:45 +0000

Google announced their forthcoming service known as Wave this week to widespread coverage in both the press and blogosphere. Created by many of the same team members that created the highly successful Google Maps, the preview of the service itself on Thursday was quite compelling, resulting in a rare standing ovation at a tech conference according to ZDNet’s own Sam Diaz. Its egalitarian and federation-friendly design is intended to create an entire open ecosystem for communication and collaboration that Google is not-so-modestly touting as the reinvention of digital interaction circa 2009.

The year of the shift to Enterprise 2.0

Dion Hinchcliffe — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:32:56 +0000

The latest data emerging on the levels that enterprises are using Web 2.0 tools in the workplace this year is painting a picture of a sea change in the way those businesses conduct collaboration and communication amongst their workers, and to a lesser extent the rest of the world.

Google's cloud gets ready for the enterprise

Dion Hinchcliffe — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:03:06 +0000

Last week’s announcement of Java support for Google App Engine (GAE), along with a host of new features aim specifically at businesses, served to reconfirm the Internet giant’s interest in providing enterprises with its evolving cloud computing capabilities. So what’s new and what’s missing in GAE for enterprises that are looking to try out the cloud?

Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0

Dion Hinchcliffe — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:27:53 +0000

Despite recent statistics showing that Enterprise 2.0 tools have spread to about a third of businesses globally, there remain ongoing questions being asked in the enterprise software community about the real returns that they provide to businesses that deploy them. Certainly blogs, wikis, and social networks are popular on public networks, but does that translate to meaningful bottom line value to organizations? In other words, is Enterprise 2.0 truly strategic in the unique way that information technology can so often be?