Interesting video from a recent CIO magazine retreat that seems to indicate that a large percentage of CIO’s think Enterprise 2.0 is Hype and is Not Happening.
Either this shows that the Enterprise 2.0 vendors have to begin doing a much better job educating potential customers at the C-Level about the ROI and benefits of Enterprise 2.0 technology or CIO’s are a bit out of touch with what is happening in the industry and within their organizations.
What is your opinion, Is Enterprise 2.0 Hype or Happening?
Attentio; a Brussels, Belgium based market intelligence firm, launched it Blog tracking tool Trendpedia last week.
Trendpedia; even in its current Beta state, is very polished and is a nice alternative to its moribound competition.
I decided to give Trendpedia a whirl with a quick comparison of mentions of Web 2.0 versus Enterprise 2.0. This comparison should be very interesting at this point in light of the over saturated coverage in the Blogosphere last week over Forrester’s release of a report that they believe that the Enterprise 2.0 market is set to hockey stick into the 4.6 billion dollar range by 2013.
Plugging in Enterprise 2.0 versus Web 2.0 reveals that In the past 4 months articles or mentions of Web 2.0 have averaged a steady 300 a day while mentions and or articles related to Enterprise 2.0 averaged about 30 a day during the same time frame.
What is interesting about the chart above is that posts about Web 2.O actually spiked 63% over the normal 300 posts per day after the Forrester Enterprise 2.0 report while posts about Enterprise 2.O stayed the same.
This simple type of analysis is not truly statistically correct as many bloggers use the term Web 2.0 or Business Web 2.0 when writing about Enterprise 2.0 applications so the data is a bit skewed.
But taking the analysis one step further I compared FaceBook (still considered a more consumer orientated Social Media) versus LinkedIn (standard bearer for Enterprise 2.0 Social Media) and FaceBook was mentioned 92% of the time versus 8% for LinkedIn.
FaceBook has had 94,000 mentions in the past 4 months
While LinkedIn had 8000 posts mentioning it in the same 4 month period
So although there has been much discussion about the end of usage of the term Web 2.0 along with the demise of companies that focus exclusively on consumer Web 2.0, it appears that there is quite a bit of lag time in the Blogosphere in terms of reflecting these trends.
Oracle WebCenter, originally announced in 2007, is now in production and will be Oracle’s foundation for Enterprise 2.0.
WebCenter is an enterprise portal that can be used to display information about people, processes and data. The architecture of WebCenter is aligned with Oracle new mantra of “Complete, Open and Integrated” for its current and future products and solutions.
During his keynote, Charles Phillips oversaw a demo of Oracle WebCenter that focused on the ease of use of setting up Ajax enabled portlets with WebCenter. Quite a bit of the demo was used to show how Webcenter could be used to quickly get Enterprise 2.0 functionality into place within a company without extensive amounts of coding.
Oracle WebCenter is part of Oracle’s extensive and growing Fusion Middleware solutions that now include Business Intelligence, Application Servers, Enterprise Performance Management and the soon to be added suite of tools from BEA.
In a very short period of time Oracle has created a very comprehensive line of solutions for the Enterprise 2.0 space and will be interesting to watch over the coming years as the products mature and gain additional market share.
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