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Friday, June 13, 2008
Enterprise 2.0 show and emerging communications
I enjoyed the last four days at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. This is my second year in attendance;it remains a tremendously interesting conference. The intellectual definitions behind Enterprise 2.0 are tied closely to the work of Harvard Business School professor, Andrew McAfee. More background on the concept can be found at his blog.
Although this conference has serious academic roots, it was one of the most practical shows I've been to in a long, long time.
Given that I was wearing my company hat (or crisply ironed white Oxford shirt with Jaduka logo) here are several takeaways that should help anyone connected to our company and industry.
A. I spent 3 plus hours listening to Siemen,Avaya, Alcatel/Lucent, Cisco provide Unified Communications (aka CEBP) product demonstrations moderated by Melanie Turek, a principal analyst at Frost and Sullivan.
All of the companies have beautifully impressive product offerings. Despite their size and market clout none of them are selling much of it! They all agreed the market was at the emerging or early adopter stage.
B. Collaboration tool vendors including wikis,blogs, intranet portal platforms seemed to make up 80% of the exhibitors at the show. Given Microsoft's SharePoint solution and Oracle or IBM's offerings I do wonder what market percentage is available to these other vendors. Consolidation happens fast in technology we will see what happens.
C. One of my favorite sessions was on Mashups moderated by Dave Berlind, founder of the MashupCamp. The panel included representatives from Serena, Microsoft,IBM, and Denodo. I've been following Mashup technology for the last 18 months. The "OMG of course" moment was when all the panelist agreed that business class APIs will continue to show enormous improvements in usability. The common prediction was that in 6-18 months non technical business users would be able to utilize most API-like functionality on their own.
D. It was wonderful to formally (and informally) hear customer use cases from major utilities, defense contractors,the CIA, consumer product companies, automobile manufacturers, and international consultancies. The largest enterprises in the world are trying to become flatter and more responsive by experimenting with Web 2.0 technologies. The cultural shift is tougher than the technology migration.
E. The Telco 2.0 community has not overlapped with the Enterprise 2.0 world yet. Maybe next year.
Although this conference has serious academic roots, it was one of the most practical shows I've been to in a long, long time.
Given that I was wearing my company hat (or crisply ironed white Oxford shirt with Jaduka logo) here are several takeaways that should help anyone connected to our company and industry.
A. I spent 3 plus hours listening to Siemen,Avaya, Alcatel/Lucent, Cisco provide Unified Communications (aka CEBP) product demonstrations moderated by Melanie Turek, a principal analyst at Frost and Sullivan.
All of the companies have beautifully impressive product offerings. Despite their size and market clout none of them are selling much of it! They all agreed the market was at the emerging or early adopter stage.
B. Collaboration tool vendors including wikis,blogs, intranet portal platforms seemed to make up 80% of the exhibitors at the show. Given Microsoft's SharePoint solution and Oracle or IBM's offerings I do wonder what market percentage is available to these other vendors. Consolidation happens fast in technology we will see what happens.
C. One of my favorite sessions was on Mashups moderated by Dave Berlind, founder of the MashupCamp. The panel included representatives from Serena, Microsoft,IBM, and Denodo. I've been following Mashup technology for the last 18 months. The "OMG of course" moment was when all the panelist agreed that business class APIs will continue to show enormous improvements in usability. The common prediction was that in 6-18 months non technical business users would be able to utilize most API-like functionality on their own.
D. It was wonderful to formally (and informally) hear customer use cases from major utilities, defense contractors,the CIA, consumer product companies, automobile manufacturers, and international consultancies. The largest enterprises in the world are trying to become flatter and more responsive by experimenting with Web 2.0 technologies. The cultural shift is tougher than the technology migration.
E. The Telco 2.0 community has not overlapped with the Enterprise 2.0 world yet. Maybe next year.
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