Internet 1.0 location -Boston – presents next generation of enterprise search:

 http://endeca.com/

from: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6194010.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Is Endeca really the next Google?

BOSTON–Some big names in search met Thursday at the Red Herring East conference and allowed their brains to be picked by venture capitalists eager to find the next good idea.

A panel consisting of Ask.com, Answers.com, Truveo/AOL and Microsoft search gurus deflected a slew of questions.

Enterprise 3.0 he explained in an earlier article:

Enterprise 3.0 means Software as a Service and Extended Enterprise like the A1s solution with 2.0 style widgets

From Sramana Mitra

Source: http://sramanamitra.com/blog/613

3.0 = (SaaS + EE)

I have written several pieces recently about the Extended Enterprise trend, covering Segments such as Collaboration, CRM and PLM.

In the same vein, that I have proposed a framework for Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS), I would like to discuss in this piece, a framework for Enterprise 3.0.

Fot those working with web technologies, and focused on business applications, the trend to watch carefully is the Extended Enterprise one, which hasn’t quite become mainstream yet.

Saas (Software-As-A-Service) or OnDemand is already a well understood and accepted trend. Nick Carr wrote in November 2006: “Large companies appear to be jumping en masse onto the software-as-a-service bandwagon, according to a new survey of CIOs by management consultants McKinsey & Company. The survey found that 61% of North American companies with sales over $1 billion plan to adopt one or more SaaS applications over the next year, a dramatic increase from the 38% who were planning to install SaaS apps in 2005.”

However, to come up with new ideas, or to position your existing SaaS technology on a problem that matters to customers today, I suggest, you focus on the Extended Enterprise trend.

So, let’s recap the vocabulary again. What is the Extended Enterprise (EE)?

The modern enterprise is no longer one, monolithic organization. Customers, Partners, Suppliers, Outsourcers, Distributors, Resellers, … all kinds of entities extend and expand the boundaries of the enterprise, and make “collaboration” and “sharing” important.

Let’s take some examples. The Salesforce needs to share leads with distributors and resellers. The Product Design team needs to share CAD files with parts suppliers. Customers and Vendors need to share workspace often. Consultants, Contractors, Outsourcers often need to seamlessly participate in the workflow of a project, share files, upload information. All this, across a secure, seamlessly authenticated system.

Few of these Extended Enterprise stakeholders are inside the firewall. They don’t necessarily have accounts in the Enterprise IT network, posing challenges and creating friction in the workflow.

If you are designing an application that does either Expertise Location, Talent Management, or Contract Management using web 2.0 technologies, remember, that you need to provide access control options to include these off-enterprise team members.

The reason I like this framework, is that companies are facing the full impact of globalization today, and yet, their IT systems were designed long time back, without any provision for managing this Extended Enterprise architecture. Thus, if you do come up with an architecture that successfully manages the workflow of EE, focused on a specific application, chances are, you have hit some ready CIO painpoint, and therefore, appetite.

So, let’s try to use this framework – Enterprise 3.0 = (SaaS + EE), and see if it can help us hone the architectural design, as well as the application positioning

from: http://sramanamitra.com/blog/1163

 also with a short summary on SAP’s history

SAP and Enterprise 3.0

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is the world’s largest business software provider and the third-largest independent software vendor. Incorporated in 1972, SAP today has a market capitalization in excess of $60 billion and a footprint in 120 countries….

See a Screenshot and the full article here…

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007062209235346

Watch the presentation at:

http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=&s=25992&a=210162,00.asp

Nice slideshow …

Source: Social Media Today

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/12199

Collaborating to provide real life Enterprise 2.0 application examples, I selected my ten favourite e2apps. Retail, Invoice, CRM, Project Management, Time Tracking, Workflow and BPM. A kind of mashup of this type of applications can be the future of ERP.

Barracuda Suite
Dashboard, Catalog, Inventory, Orders, Promotions and Customers in a integrated solution to manage retail business.

Fresh Books
Manage invoices, Track time (for you and your staff), Accept payment and reports.

Side job track
Job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management solution. You can even create completely customized estimate and invoice templates.

Heap
CRM application including messaging, calendars, contacts and reports.

Relenta CRM
Share your emails, contacts, and activities in one central place

WhoDoes
Designed to assist you in planning projects, you can manage your activities and share information with your team.

SantexQ
Time and task management, progress reports, deadlines and time budgets for your projects.

timeXchange.net
Manage time reporting process. Export reports to HR and accounting business applications.

Approvr
Workflow Manager to manage proofing and approval of documents.

Skemma
On demand BPM software product, to automate communications between internal areas, clients, vendors and existing systems.