OnDemand Speed Links Sep 22 2008

September 22, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

With the 2008 NFL season in full swing (Go Chicago Bears!) it is time for another edition of the hard hitting OnDemand Speed Links.

Oracle Rolls Out New Enterprise 2.0 Sales Apps at Open World
Oracle announced 2 new Enterprise 2.0 products at Oracle Open World, Sales Campaigns and Sales Library. These products round out Oracle’s Social CRM offerings and compete directly with a few On Demand sales solutions now in the market.

SAP utilizing Innocentive to get leg up in Social Networking
SAP’s recently announced its partnership with Innocentive at the recent SAP TechEd conference in Las Vegas. SAP has created an ideation to create social networking for Enterprise Applications. Will be interesting to see if other software companies follow SAP’s lead in sourcing new ideas

Best Practices in Adopting Web 2.0 in the Enterprise
Awareness Networks has posted a very detailed whitepaper (warning, registration is required to download the whitepaper) that outlines best practices for adopting Web 2.0 in the Enterprise. Good document to have if you are trying to bolster internal arguments for embracing Enterprise Social Media in your company.

New Cloud Computing Conferences on Tap
There is a new Cloud Computing camp scheduled for Silicon Valley on 30 September followed by SD Forums Cloud Computing Conference on 1 October.

The Truth behind Zoho and GE
Oliver Marksover on ZDNet, makes sense of the rumors that have come about since the announcement of Zoho being considered for providing office suites for 400,000 GE users “over” Google.