Archive for the 'Conferences' Category
June 11, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
Heading back to Arizona today after a very interesting and informative Enterprise 2.0 2008 conference.
Had a chance to meet with the founders and CEO’s of a number of Enterprise 2.0 firms and have come away very impressed with the software solutions, business models, channel partner plans and ROI of most of the firms products.
There has been much speculation in the consumer Web 2.0 space as to when the bubble will burst on both the irrational valuations and fantastical (made up word:) revenue models based on advertising that consumer Web 2.0 has been built upon.
It not only is clear that Enterprise 2.0 firms are a different breed from their Web 2.0 brethren , it is also clear that many of these firms will not only survive the current economic slowdown but are thriving now that companies are looking for ways to contain cost. On Demand hosted solutions for the Enterprise are really gaining steam at the moment and look likely to increase in market and mind share based on the enthusiasm I have seen from attendees at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.
A few of the Enterprise 2.0 firms (and Enterprise firms like Sun and IBM) I had a chance to meet with whom I will post follow-up articles and reviews about over the next few weeks include:
- Liquid Planner
- Serena Software
- Atlassian
- GroupSwim
- Small World Labs
- Sun for Project SocialSite
- IBM for Lotus Connections and Mashup Center
- Oracle for Sales Prospector
- Aegeon for Spaceo.us
- Veodia
- Igloo
- WorkLight
- Bungee
Stay tuned….
June 6, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
I have created an Enterprise 2.0 Conference FriendFeed room for Micro blogging during the conference next week in Boston.
As Bwana McCall noted, FriendFeed rooms are an ideal mechanism for live blogging an event. Especially now that FriendFeed has added a Semi-Public Room feature.
Subscribe to the room and contribute your videos, links and comments during the conference. I will use Twitter (on the rare occasions that it is up) a bit during the conference but will post the majority of the content relating to the conference in the Enterprise 2.0 Conference FriendFeed Room.
If you are blogging from the conference next week be sure to add your information in the Blogging section so that others can follow your blog.
June 2, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
Reuven Cohen; Founder and CTO of Toronto based Enomaly Inc, has proposed a CloudCamp for the Bay area. The initial CloudCamp San Francisco will be held on June 24th 2008 from 5 - 9 pm PST at Microsoft’s San Francisco Office.
Per Reuven; the CloudCamp will be a chance for Entrepreneurs, founders, leaders of start-up/early-stage companies and VC’s to see presentations on Cloud Computing, understand how to attract VC’s and discuss how successful start-ups have built their business using Cloud Computing solutions.
The CloudCamp website was launched last week at www.cloudcamp.com.
Interest is strong in the CloudCamp at this point and all interested in attending are urged to register their interest on the CloudCamp website. Registering will help in getting additional sponsorship (Sun has expressed interest in hosting the event) and topics for the event.
Check back here in a couple of weeks as I will post an update once the final venue and agenda have been announced for CloudCamp.
Update 5 June
Cloud Camp Agenda Updates and Social Media Contacts
Update 13 June
Venue is set for Microsoft San Francisco and Registration is via Yahoo Upcoming
May 29, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
During the 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Andrew McAfee proposed an industry wide Enterprise 2.0 repository for the collection of best practices for implementing and utilizing Enterprise 2.0.
Socialtext agreed to host the Enterprise 2.0 use case repository and since its inception in the 4th quarter of last year Andrew has collected and posted about 18 use cases.
This repository is the only public repository that I am aware of that is collecting use cases for Enterprise 2.0 and with skepticism about Enterprise 2.0 still prevalent at the C-level in many companies, is very much needed.
The majority of the use cases to date are from Academia or non-profits and more use cases are needed from vertical industries like retail or manufacturing, consulting firms, and vendors. Private industry use cases are very important in that many approvers and enablers of Enterprise 2.0 initiatives rely on use cases to help establish the rationale for new projects. These approvers and enablers normally look first for familiar companies like an AT&T and or Oracle, and then immediately look for use case examples in their vertical industry.
I will be sure to ask Andrew at this years Enterprise 2.0 conference what the future plans are for the repository and will post an update to this article later.
Meanwhile if you have use cases that would be beneficial to others please contact Andrew McAfee or let me know in the comments of other Enterprise 2.0 use cases that you have run across on the internet.
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