Posted by kevin Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:20:43 GMT
The Consumer Web is A Social Web
Forums- (Gaia-Online has 709m posts contributed by 4.2m users)
- (8% of all Internet Users have one; ~200m blogs exist)
- (Wikipedia has 63 new articles per hour, and maintains over 1m total)
- (MySpace.com has 55m users; receives more traffic than Google.com)
The Enterprise is A Social Enterprise
- From expanding social networks to building group memory, social software creates new possibilities for workflow
We Apply the best of the Consumer Web for the Enterprise (SME)
On demand Enterprise Software for the SME Market Safe, Secure, Powerful and works with existing systems and IT Policies, and requires No Installation.
Enterprise Software: Catching up to the Consumer Web
The enterprise software market, catch up to the consumer Web, where people are becoming used to melding data from their desktop with services online.
Social Enterprise Software is Disruptive Technology
“Blogs and wikis are starting to move into businesses as a simpler and lightweight way to do collaboration,” said Anne Thomas Manes, an analyst at the Burton Group “With all new and interesting applications in the consumer space, I’m sure someone is going to figure out how to take those concepts and use them in business,” she added.
Hosted Social Enterprise Software Successful for SME Market
Hosted business applications are conducive to a “try before you buy” approach, particularly for midsize and small companies. Rather than spend $100,000 for on-premise software, a business customer can quickly sign up for a hosted application, like one from Salesforce.com, and pay on a monthly basis.
Focus Family of Products MORE THAN JUST A WIKI
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We had to move away from a static, dead intranet,” says
Myrto Lazopoulou. “The wiki has allowed us to improve collaboration, communication and publication. We can cross time zones, improve the way teams works, reduce email and increase transparency.”
Enterprise Software Landscape
- Business Intelligence: ERP and Supply Chain Management
- CRM: Customer Relationship Management Look at what SalesForce.com did to Seibel.
- Social Software: What is your invisible corporate knowledge? Where is it stored?
- Social Networks: “If HP knew half of what HP knows, we would be twice as profitable.”
The Enterprise Software Market Shifting to Disruptive Technologies
“Everybody is calling the enterprise software market dead. But it’s really not dead. There are just new models at work.”—Joe Kraus, CEO of JotSpot
Gartner Group: Enterprise must Adopt Best of Consumer Web
Companies need to work out how to incorporate consumer technologies in a secure manner to provide business value for the enterprise. –Fenn Gartner Group
The Enterprise Software Market Shifting to Disruptive Technologies
“Our customers now include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Morgan Stanley, and intelligence agencies,” says David Gilmour, CEO of Tacit Knowledge Systems.
“And they all have come to believe this technology that watches and compiles — for the benefit of the individual — is going to become a permanent backdrop and the dominant paradigm for enterprise software.”
Focus Family of Products: enabling the Social Enterprise
