If you are managing an enterprise application, especially one that has a significant online presence, it is a good idea to regularly review new applications and innovations that may solve current problems or lower your costs on existing solutions.
One example of a resource to bookmark is Google’s Enterprise Application list where you’ll find several partners who have deployed solutions for Google Apps. Several of these partners have very robust applications for communication, emailing, and data integration that take advantage of Google’s powerful and free to very low cost programs.
Another bookmark for those considernig or working More»

Labels: enterprise 2.0, Microsoft

One of Google’s most brilliant strategies to conquer the online world hasn’t made them more than a trivial amount of revenue and perhaps never will. But they’ll be OK with that, because Google is slowly encroaching on Microsoft at a game that company has dominated for over a decade with the Microsoft Office Suite.
Google Docs are still a small part of both the home and enterprise software market but they appear to be slowly getting incorporated into home desktops and enterprise applications around the globe, and this poses a huge threat to the Microsoft Office dominance in that More»

Labels: 700mhz auction, companies, enterprise 2.0, Google Docs, Microsoft

When the Twitter folks used Ruby On Rails as a development platform Ruby gained a lot of recognition as a major and growing player in the big time online space. However as scaling issues started to plague Twitter during its explosive growth last year, some started blaming Ruby on Rails, suggesting it was not appropriate for an application of this size that had a major need for speed and stability.
Today TechCrunch is insisting that Twitter is in the process of completely abandoning Ruby On Rails while eWeek’s detailed article is insisting they are not, quoting senior Twitter Engineer More»

Labels: enterprise 2.0, Ruby on Rails, scalability, Twitter

Orlando Florida just hosted a conference on how to bring more environmental sensibilities to the Enterprise Computing environment. The conference was called the “Uptime Green Enterprise Computing Symposium” and sought to help address the growing issues with power consumption, efficiency, and other issues where IT concerns and Environmental issues overlap.
Ted Samson at Infoworld has a nice summary, with six “lessons learned” at the symposium. Among these were:
* Measure your power consumption.* Check to make sure all the machines running have a purpose (!).* Grab the low hanging fruit. e.g. Check cooling fans More»

Labels: data centers, electricity, enterprise 2.0, green computing

Software as a service - SaaS for short, is clearly a major development in how enterprise computing will evolve in the coming years.
OpSource, a solutions provider, has an excellent set of white papers and a resource center featuring issues relating to SAAS deployments and advantages. For the disadvantages with SaaS you’ll want to turn elsewhere since Opsource is presumably a strong advocate for SaaS solutions given their business model.
Over the coming weeks we’ll be exploring several issues relating to SaaS and the enterprise including the advantages of flexibility, scalability, and rapid deployment using More»

Labels: enterprise 2.0, saas, software

Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013, according to a report by Forrester Research. The top priority for enterprises will be social media applications and tools and most of the money is expected to flow to social networking tools and mashups.
Forrester defines Enterprise 2.0 as the corporate version of Web 2.0. Here’s the research firm’s definition:

In Forrester’s view, the key hallmark of Web 2.0 is efficiency for end users, and the ultimate goal is to use technology like More»

Labels: Blogs, enterprise 2.0, online services, social media, videos, web 2.0, wikis

Over at ZDNET Phil Waineright has a nice short review of NetSuite’s OneWorld System - a data integration and analysis tool for middle sized or even large enterprise deployments.
Waineright:

The new NetSuite OneWorld system gives managers much-needed instant visibility into the business …. aggregating real-time information all the way up themanagement chain so that the CEO can get a constantly updated real-time view ofhow the business is doing, and can instantly drill down to look at regions,countries or even individual sales orders. All of this is done with real-timecurrency conversion and role-based views, which More»

Labels: enterprise 2.0, netsuite oneworld

Google has done an amazing job of capturing the imagination, and more importantly the search queries, of hundreds of millions of web surfers. Google has also turned that attention into a huge source of revenues with which they have built one of the world’s great technology companies.
But if former Microsoft employee and veteran search watcher Robert Scoble is correct is his assessment which is the same as many other analysts, Google is now beginning a fairly aggressive push to go after the enterprise market - a market dominated by Microsoft products. Scoble thinks Google CEO Eric More»

Labels: enterprise 2.0, Microsoft

Microsoft announced today that they are aquiring Kidaro, a leading provider of enterprise desktop virtualization.
Kidaro will be integrated into the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, a part of Microsoft’s subscription services.
Several key benefits to enterprise environments will be:

Accelerate Windows Vista migrations by minimizing compatibility issues.
Easier deployment of managed Virtual PCs to Windows desktops.
Rapid reconstitution of corporate desktops.
Minimize the tension between IT control and user flexibility by applying policies in locked- down corporate Virtual PCs while giving users more open access to the underlying host operating system. [ha - that one was written as only Microsoft can! I think I’d simplify that More»

Labels: desktop, enterprise 2.0, kidaro, Microsoft

Om Malik has a piece today detailing his discussion Microsoft’s future with Ray Ozzie, one of microsoft’s key players and probably the key architect of overall online strategies for Microsoft.
Here is the interview at GigaOM.
Microsoft is in a difficult business position now as many applications and many major online projects are moving off of desktops and local servers and into cloud computing services such as that offered by Amazon.com, which Ozzie compliments as the first major effort in the utility computing space.
Microsoft appears to be moving powerfully into cloud computing, though it was also notable at this year’s Computer More»

Labels: cloud computing, enterprise 2.0, Microsoft, Yahoo