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Internet 1.0 location -Boston – presents next generation of enterprise search:
from: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6194010.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
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 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.
http://sapsearchengine.googlepages.com/index.html
You will find the same results as in your normal Google search, but the ads are SAP specific…
Perhaps somebody could help me to improve my understanding of the new search feature
Below the text are a lot of interesting links on Enterprise 2.0 from Zdnet.
Also SAP is mentioned as one of the key players in this area
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5440
InfoWorld and Baseline have overviews of announcements made at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week. It’s no longer just the upstarts flogging Enterprise 2.0– now IBM, Microsoft, SAP and other incumbents have figured out that the social, remixed Web is not a passing fad defined by MySpace and Facebook and mashup artists.
from ZDNET:
See also:
Ross Mayfield’s coverage of the panel, “How to Build an Enterprise 2.0 Platform Employees Will Use ”
Younger Workers Demanding Web 2.0 Tech on the Job (InformationWeek)
Jason Hiner: Enterprise 2.0 is about building a collaboration platform that is better than e-mail
Video and audio of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference keynotes
John Eckman live blogging of the Enterprise 2.0 conference
Jevon MacDonald: I am cutting Enterprise 2.0 from my vocabulary
Michael Sampson’s coverage of the Enterprise 2.0 conference
from: http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3684226
June 19, 2007
Enterprise 2.0: Another Fine Mess?
By Tim Scannell
BOSTON — Online service juggernaut Google (Quote<!–, Chart–>) and information-sharing Web sites like YouTube and FaceBook have revolutionized the way people interact in cyberspace and do business on the Net, right?
ERP innovation: SAP, Microsoft lead the way |
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| By Jon Franke, News Editor 14 Jun 2007 | Source: http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci1260823,00.html?track=NL-137&ad=591560&asrc=EM_NLN_1588144&uid=6220928 |
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“After a down period, ERP innovation is back. And it’s being led by a couple of industry giants: SAP and Microsoft.
The frenzied consolidation that gripped the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market in recent years is by no means complete, but as customers demand better usability and flexibility, and easier access to their data, the light of innovation has once again begun to shine, according to a recent Forrester Research study.
“Consolidation does make innovation difficult,” said Paul Hamerman, vice president of enterprise applications at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester, “because [companies] that have absorbed a lot of ERP vendors over the past couple years [have to] go through a lot of product rationalization, salesforce rationalization [and] overhead rationalization. So it does tend to distract companies from building software.”
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This is the new eBay Web 2.0 San Dimas appearance developed with Adobe Apollo . So if this also interacts with Adobe AIR, which should be the case, you can also use it on your desktop like a widget or normal desktop application (without a widget engine like the one from yahoo..)
Image from: http://alanlewis.typepad.com/weblog/ an ebay technical evangelist
