Comments on: The Next Generation Enterprise and Enterprise 2.0 http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-next-generation-enterprise-and-enterprise-20/ Pragmatic Approach to the next wave of technology, SOA, Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:47:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tony Gonzalez http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-next-generation-enterprise-and-enterprise-20/#comment-47 Tony Gonzalez Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:36:10 +0000 http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-next-generation-enterprise-and-enterprise-20/#comment-47 Shimon, Good to hear from you. Hope things are well in IL. The question you are asking if probably one of the toughest ones to answer. It is difficult to estimate ROI on collaboration and innovation, but this is one of those areas where I think the typical ROI calculation might not apply. But we all know that the enterprise has to expand and innovate to stay ahead of the competition. I think the collaboration technology in its current today is not tightly integrated to the innovation process level and not even among itself, and as a result it is completely disconnected to the systems that implement the critical and business so, think about a "convergence collaboration portal" where VoIP, video, contacts (enterprise social network), communications (IM, e-mail), information discovery and management (tags & RSS), Data Analysis and publishing (mashups and ECM). This platform should be able to follow you where ever you are. A platform that allows you to communicate and share structure and unstructured information by using typical application paradigm like drag-and-drop or right-mouse-click. A platform like this would potentially increase the innovation. Now is up to a nimble, flexible and responsive IT platform to support the changes to the business processes coming out of the expected innovation wave. The degree to which the underlying systems adapt is a metric to be considered in a ROI calculation. Other potential variables might be the degree of reusability and manageability. I know there has been a push from ISPs to provide the early stage of this type of platforms for their customer base. Verizon is an adopter of this type of technology (Laszlo's Webtop). For the enterprise there are other tools like ActiveGrid that would provide good departmental solutions that are in compliance with typical IT governance policies. Tony Gonzalez BSG Alliance Shimon,

Good to hear from you. Hope things are well in IL.

The question you are asking if probably one of the toughest ones to answer. It is difficult to estimate ROI on collaboration and innovation, but this is one of those areas where I think the typical ROI calculation might not apply. But we all know that the enterprise has to expand and innovate to stay ahead of the competition.

I think the collaboration technology in its current today is not tightly integrated to the innovation process level and not even among itself, and as a result it is completely disconnected to the systems that implement the critical and business

so, think about a “convergence collaboration portal” where VoIP, video, contacts (enterprise social network), communications (IM, e-mail), information discovery and management (tags & RSS), Data Analysis and publishing (mashups and ECM). This platform should be able to follow you where ever you are. A platform that allows you to communicate and share structure and unstructured information by using typical application paradigm like drag-and-drop or right-mouse-click.

A platform like this would potentially increase the innovation. Now is up to a nimble, flexible and responsive IT platform to support the changes to the business processes coming out of the expected innovation wave. The degree to which the underlying systems adapt is a metric to be considered in a ROI calculation. Other potential variables might be the degree of reusability and manageability.

I know there has been a push from ISPs to provide the early stage of this type of platforms for their customer base. Verizon is an adopter of this type of technology (Laszlo’s Webtop). For the enterprise there are other tools like ActiveGrid that would provide good departmental solutions that are in compliance with typical IT governance policies.

Tony Gonzalez
BSG Alliance

]]> By: shimikoif http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-next-generation-enterprise-and-enterprise-20/#comment-46 shimikoif Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:00:51 +0000 http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-next-generation-enterprise-and-enterprise-20/#comment-46 Tony, very interesting post indeed. I am asking myself... What does it mean (practically) to be able to connect enterprise systems to web 2.0 (flavored) tools and services. Technology wise, there is no problem to do that. In terms of the business model, things start to be more complicated here... i want to share with you my impressions from the marketplace as part of my job is to innovate new exiting services (specifically mobile 2.0 services)and to prototype them as well as demonstrate them to Telco services providers. Most of the business people i meet during demonstrations really get exited from the concepts and "coolness" of the applications, but when they go home they try to find concrete added values to their current portfolio and to see the "increase revenues" mark. In my view it is sometimes very hard to explain how collaboration or even integration to LOB's systems can make a significant change in the way information workers do their jobs. I would really like to see some real business examples on how enterprises can benefit from this new culture. Tony, very interesting post indeed.
I am asking myself… What does it mean (practically) to be able to connect enterprise systems to web 2.0 (flavored) tools and services.
Technology wise, there is no problem to do that. In terms of the business model, things start to be more complicated here… i want to share with you my impressions from the marketplace as part of my job is to innovate new exiting services (specifically mobile 2.0 services)and to prototype them as well as demonstrate them to Telco services providers. Most of the business people i meet during demonstrations really get exited from the concepts and “coolness” of the applications, but when they go home they try to find concrete added values to their current portfolio and to see the “increase revenues” mark. In my view it is sometimes very hard to explain how collaboration or even integration to LOB’s systems can make a significant change in the way information workers do their jobs. I would really like to see some real business examples on how enterprises can benefit from this new culture.

]]> By: Brian Magierski http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-next-generation-enterprise-and-enterprise-20/#comment-40 Brian Magierski Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:48:29 +0000 http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-next-generation-enterprise-and-enterprise-20/#comment-40 Tony, Nice post. I couldn't agree more. Having legacy and enterprise applications wrapped in a SOA architecture and accessible via Web Services is a must for Next Generation Enterprises. All of the On Demand apps and collaboration in the world will be much less valuable without connecting to the existing mission critical transaction systems. Likewise, SOA alone is not enough for a NGE technology architecture. It is just a first step to getting a complete On Demand architecture in place to allow for collaboration outside of the office that is connected to the enterprise for agile and rapid response velocity. I'm writing a <a href="http://brian.magierski.com/category/nge/" title="Next Generation Enterprise" rel="nofollow">series of posts</a> now on Next Generation Enterprises, and hope to tackle the On Demand Technology building block in this series down the road, and will be referencing this post too.    This conversation continues at <a href="http://www.bsgalliance.com/convs/show/850" rel="nofollow">BSG Alliance</a>   Brian Magierski <a href="http://www.bsgalliance.com/account/profile/5" rel="nofollow">View My Profile</a> Chief Development Officer BSG Alliance Corporation Tony,
Nice post. I couldn’t agree more. Having legacy and enterprise applications wrapped in a SOA architecture and accessible via Web Services is a must for Next Generation Enterprises. All of the On Demand apps and collaboration in the world will be much less valuable without connecting to the existing mission critical transaction systems. Likewise, SOA alone is not enough for a NGE technology architecture. It is just a first step to getting a complete On Demand architecture in place to allow for collaboration outside of the office that is connected to the enterprise for agile and rapid response velocity.
I’m writing a series of posts now on Next Generation Enterprises, and hope to tackle the On Demand Technology building block in this series down the road, and will be referencing this post too. 
 
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