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10 May 07

21 Mar 07

The Great Refactoring

One way to think about this is a spreading of Service Orientated Architecture; charging from behind the firewall out into the open Internet. The delivery mechanism is REST. And all the old complexities of data migration and data synchronization are being solved by letting end users pick one service provider to give them key global services. An end user could say, for example, I want:

03 Mar 07

For all the mind-numbing buzz about Web. 2.0, most business collaboration and information sharing remains mired in endless e-mail strings and scheduled conference calls. More than half of business technology pros surveyed by InformationWeek are either skeptical about tools such as blogs, wikis, and online social networks, or they're willing but wary of adopting them. What gives?

28 Feb 07

Google and IBM have struck a deal that will embed the big G's widgets deep inside the enterprise. IBM is basically making the 4,000+ web widgets available in Google's directory to the millions of corporate citizens who use Websphere.

The enterprise (aka corporations) and widgets are a perfect match. And it's not exactly a new concept either. Companies have had corporate portals for years. Yahoo at one time even had a business creating co-branded versions of My Yahoo that embedded enterprise data. However, there's a big difference today in the variety of content that's available and their interactivity.

The corporate widget space is going to be very interesting to watch over the next few years. Watch for companies to turn their intranets into Netvibes-like start pages that are used for internal communications.

24 Feb 07

WorkLight™ is a server-based software product that provides information workers and customers with customized and personalized "Web 2.0-style" access to corporate data that reside in enterprise applications. For the first time, application data are available via services and technologies such as RSS, Ajax, desktop and web-based gadget/widgets, social bookmarks, application mashups, and more.