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• 20 Jan 09
  

  Zhi Min Choo

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• 13 Jan 09
  

  Lars Bauer

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• 04 Jan 09
  

  debbie landa

  Socialcast helps businesses "looking to circumvent IT and set up a small departmental solution" - from Forrester\n\nThis quote sums up my corporate experience:\n"Anecdotally, we find that workers are now spending more time working from their home computing environment in order to access the blocked online productivity sites."\n

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• 29 Dec 08
  

  youss youss

  So, here's my read of the Enterprise Web 2.0 trends based on many conversations with my clients and vendors. I will focus specifically on wiki and social networking tools used to improve internal collaboration and knowledge sharing. These are gaining momentum and acceptance within the enterprise.

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• 16 Dec 08
  

  Thomas Vander Wal

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  Emanuele Quintarelli

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• 15 Dec 08
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  So, here’s my read of the Enterprise Web 2.0 trends based on many conversations with my clients and vendors. I will focus specifically on wiki and social networking tools used to improve internal collaboration and knowledge sharing. These are gaining momentum and acceptance within the enterprise.

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  • There will be a slowdown of IT-driven collaboration projects in 2009. But there will be increased interest in business-driven collaboration projects.
  • However, for business-driven internal enterprise Web 2.0 collaboration projects, I see growth. Why?  Because the business will find their collaboration needs to grow in 2009, while they see IT providing them with fewer services. Collaboration needs grow as a result of layoffs, mergers, and deepening external partnerships (requiring new infrastructure to collaborate outside the firewall with trusted, external partners).  And this happens while IT’s services shrink as a result of layoffs, a focus on streamlining operational costs, while not taking on new projects.
  • But many organizations cannot, or will not, allow themselves to house their intellectual property on someone else’s servers – no matter what the vendor says to assure them.
  • Now, there are good on-premise collaboration tools in the market today that are poised to solve this battle – depending on what your IT infrastructure is. The challenge I see is that many of these vendors are not sure to whom they are selling their solution – to the business, IT, or the fragile partnership between the two. Remember, partnerships encounter stress during tough economies. It’s hard for IT and the business to work together when they are eying each other’s budgets.

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• 12 Dec 08
  

  jakks 

  Socialcast helps businesses "looking to circumvent IT and set up a small departmental solution" - from Forrester
  
  This quote sums up my corporate experience:
  "Anecdotally, we find that workers are now spending more time working from their home computing environment in order to access the blocked online productivity sites."
  

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  • business units in enterprises, especially those in companies with politically weak IT departments, are increasingly behaving like SMBs, and they are going out and provisioning technology on their own. This is a form of institutional Tech Populism.
  • Anecdotally, we find that workers are now spending more time working from their home computing environment in order to access the blocked online productivity sites.
  • IT departments want to minimize operational complexity, so they will be attracted to wikis and social networks provided by vendors with familiar names–regardless of their functional adequacy.
  • the business will find their collaboration needs to grow in 2009, while they see IT providing them with fewer services
  • Collaboration needs grow as a result of layoffs, mergers, and deepening external partnerships (requiring new infrastructure to collaborate outside the firewall with trusted, external partners). And this happens while IT’s services shrink as a result of layoffs, a focus on streamlining operational costs, while not taking on new projects.
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  • looking to circumvent IT and set up a small departmental solution
  • fragile partnership between the two.
  • Will you deepen the divide between IT and the business?

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