Businesses move to Enterprise 2.0 tools 06/04/2009
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Businesses: Start Revving Your Enterprise 2.0 Engines
I ran into this piece after bookmarking it a couple of months back, while working on a SharePoint project here at i3. Nice to see SharePoint steamrolling away:
“To date, acquisitions of Web or enterprise 2.0 technologies and vendors by businesses have been modest at best. Forrester expects this trend to continue.
Specifically, Young said power vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP will grow organically. However, he allowed that nouveau wildcards such as Google and Salesforce.com could acquire Web 2.0 vendors in the SAAS (software as a service) market. That story could change three years out, when maturing vendors struggle to flourish amid the steep competition.
Coke and Pepsi. Crest and Colgate. It’s hard to unseat an entrenched incumbent in any market and Young said Microsoft’s SharePoint “will continue to steamroll the market.”
He said that while challengers will be quick to denigrate the quality of SharePoint’s wiki, blog and social networking functionality, Microsoft will still get a lot of traction with its collaboration suite in 2008. Another thing: Because so many knowledge workers already use SharePoint, it is likely smaller Web 2.0 vendors will look to partner with Microsoft.”
Six ways to make Web 2.0 work | McKinsey Quarterly 05/30/2009
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Interesting stuff going on the the web world, and this summer promises a whole new round of innovation from startups to new releases from the big guys Google (see Wave) and Microsoft (see Bing)
The McKinsey report Six ways to make Web 2.0 work  excerpt here can help keep things in context. It’s worth clicking through to read the whole thing:
“What distinguishes them from previous technologies is the high degree of participation they require to be effective. Unlike ERP and CRM, where most users either simply process information in the form of reports or use the technology to execute transactions such as issuing payments or entering customer orders, Web 2.0 technologies are interactive and require users to generate new information and content or to edit the work of other participants.”
