ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.01.2008: Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.01.2008: Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?
by Phil Wainewright: "If the world is converging on The Big Switch to utility computing, then where are the telcos? As utility providers of the access and transmission infrastructure of the Internet, you’d think they’d be at the forefront of the SaaS revolution."

Tags: saas, enterprise, communications, business, webservice

The FASTForward Blog, 14.01.2008: Where is Internal IT Going?

The FASTForward Blog, 14.01.2008: Where is Internal IT Going?
by Bill Ives: "Nitin Karandikar raises some interesting points about IT outsourcing and the increasing complexity of the outsourcing value chain. If the outside partners become more strategic, will they become tied to one enterprise so the chain becomes simply an extension of the enterprise for accounting purposes?"

Tags: saas, enterprise2.0, organization, enterprise, collaboration, trend, outsourcing

Portals and KM, 11.01.2008: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories, The Best from 2007

Portals and KM, 11.01.2008: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories, The Best from 2007
Good collection of Enterprise 2.0 related Links
by Bill Ives: "People are often looking for examples of Enterprise 2.0 successes. I am seeing a growing number of examples and wanted to collect them in one post. This is an update from September to complete the best for 2007. Here they are in a somewhat random order and I will add to this list as I encounter more."

Tags: enterprise2.0, bestof, example, bestpractice

Web Strategy by Jeremiah , 14.01.2007: 10 Considerations for the Startup planning to offer to the Enterprise (and why many will fail)

Web Strategy by Jeremiah , 14.01.2007: 10 Considerations for the Startup planning to offer to the Enterprise (and why many will fail)
by Jeremiah Owyang: "While many startups are interested to offer their services to Enterprise companies, they underestimate the complexity. There are many overlooked requirements from culture to support that startups just don’t get"

Tags: business, enterprise, startup, b2b, howto, entrepreneurship

New York Times, 13.01.2008: From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year

New York Times, 13.01.2008: From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year
by R. Stross: "MARKUS FRIND, a 29-year-old Web entrepreneur, has developed software for his online dating site, Plenty of Fish, that operates almost completely on autopilot, leaving Mr. Frind plenty of free time. On average, he puts in about a 10-hour workweek."

Tags: startup, entrepreneur, crowdsourcing, business, advertising

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 10.01.2008: Rich Internet application predictions for 2008

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 10.01.2008: Rich Internet application predictions for 2008
by Ryan Stewart: "2007 was a great year for rich Internet applications. We also saw a lot of traction in the enterprise space with companies like Oracle and SAP looking to augment their user experience with rich Internet applications. 2008 is going to be even better and here’s why."

Tags: ria, predictions, trends, enterprise, enterprise2.0, adobe, air, microsoft, silverlight, flex

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 03.01.2008: 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 03.01.2008: 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we’ll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises. And a variety of forces are coming together to make 2008 the year that enterprises refit themselves for the 21st century."

Tags: enterprise, enterprise2.0, predictions, saas, soa, trends

CMS Watch, 18.12.2007: Twelve Predictions for 2008

CMS Watch, 18.12.2007: Twelve Predictions for 2008
by The CMS Watch Analyst Team: "It's that time of year again. The CMS Watch analyst team ponders what to expect next year, and offers 12 predictions that we think will shape content technologies in 2008."

Tags: cms, content, enterprise, search, trends

Adobe Press Room, 13.12.2007: Adobe Announces Open Source Technologies for Enterprise RIAs

Adobe Press Room, 13.12.2007: Adobe Announces Open Source Technologies for Enterprise RIAs
About: "BlazeDS Enables Developers to Productively Build Real-Time Data-Driven Applications"

Tags: adobe, air, flex, opensource, ria enterprise, webdev

Samiq Bits, 06.12.2007: Microsoft Volta as a Declarative Web Distributed Computing Toolset

Samiq Bits, 06.12.2007: Microsoft Volta as a Declarative Web Distributed Computing Toolset
by Gilbert Corrales: "Today Microsoft Live Labs announced Microsoft Volta. Volta technology preview is a developer toolset built on top of .NET to further excel the development of software services applications enabling you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns."

Tags: .net, ria, microsoft, ajax, webdev, dotnet, volta

Read/WriteWeb, 05.12.2007: Web Office: 2007 Year in Review

Read/WriteWeb, 05.12.2007: Web Office: 2007 Year in Review
by Richard MacManus: "Over the next few weeks we'll be reviewing a number of Web product categories on Read/WriteWeb, summarizing what's happened in 2007 - and what to look forward to in 2008."

Tags: web2.0, weboffice, google, microsoft, analysis

Trends in the Living Networks, 05.12.2007: Review of Day One of Enterprise 2.0 conference – Sydney 3 December

Trends in the Living Networks, 05.12.2007: Review of Day One of Enterprise 2.0 conference – Sydney 3 December
by Ross Dawson: "A quick review of Day One of IIR's Enterprise 2.0 conference. Steve Hodgkinson of Ovum addressed the question, 'Does Your Organisation Need Enterprise 2.0?'. Nigel Watson of Microsoft described the history of blogging at Microsoft. Ben Naftzger of Atlassian made a good case that wikis are the best thing ever to happen for organizations."

Tags: enterprise2.0, conference, enterprise, bestpractice

Global Neighbourhoods, 02.12.2007: SAP Research Report

Global Neighbourhoods, 02.12.2007: SAP Research Report
by Shel Israel: "This is Part 2 of--I don't know how many parts of the--SAP Global Survey Report on Culture, Business and Social Media. This summarizes the key points of what I learned while working on this report."

Tags: research, social, media, sap, statistics, business

Read/WriteWeb, 03.12.2007:2008 Will Be The Year of Business Networking

Read/WriteWeb, 03.12.2007:2008 Will Be The Year of Business Networking
by Bernard Lunn: "In this post we will give you three reasons for that prediction, plus six specific predictions and one interesting dark horse."

Tags: trends, business, networking, social, socialnetwork, web2.0

Trends in the Living Networks, 02.12.2007: Keynote: The Potential of Enterprise 2.0 - Six Lessons for Success

Trends in the Living Networks, 02.12.2007: Keynote: The Potential of Enterprise 2.0 - Six Lessons for Success
by Ross Dawson: "I will be doing the opening keynote at tomorrow’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Sydney. The slides are below for reference purposes for those who attended."

Tags: enterprise, architecture, enterprise2.0, conference, howto

The FASTForward Blog, 01.12.2007: Why the Future of Corporate Computing is ‘Informal’ : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

The FASTForward Blog, 01.12.2007: Why the Future of Corporate Computing is ‘Informal’ : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary
by Joe McKendrick: "Social networking applications will be part of the informal organization (collaborative and non-hierarchical), versus the way software has traditionally been applied within the formal organization (very hierarchical, procedure oriented, highly political)."

Tags: enterprise2.0, collaboration, intranet, socialnetwork, organization

Read/WriteWeb, 27.11.2007: Forrester: RIAs Will Replace Microsoft Office & Portals on Front End

Read/WriteWeb, 27.11.2007: Forrester: RIAs Will Replace Microsoft Office & Portals on Front End
by Richard MacManus: "A new Forrester report by Erica Driver and Ron Rogowski suggests that rich Internet applications (RIAs) may usurp Microsoft Office and enterprise portals as the front-end UIs for 'decision-makers and task-oriented workers'. The phrase Forrester uses for this front end is 'Information Workplaces (IWs)'."

Tags: ria, enterprise2.0, flex, portal, adobe, research

Seeking Alpha, 19.11.2007: IBM's 'Blue Cloud': The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT

Seeking Alpha, 19.11.2007: IBM's 'Blue Cloud': The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT
by Dana Gardner: "And so it is today, with IBM's (IBM) announcement of Blue Cloud -- an approach that not only talks the services talk, but walks the services walk. We are all at the tipping point where IT will be delivered of, by and for services."

Tags: enterprise2.0, enterprise, webservice, hosted

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 23.11.2007: Live Documents enters the Office suite ring

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 23.11.2007: Live Documents enters the Office suite ring
by Dan Farber: "Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998. Now he wants to squish Microsoft Office with a new suite and complementary collaborative component, Live Documents."

Tags: office, weboffice, office2.0, webservice, webapp, microsoft

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software
by Ashling O’Connor: "The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant’s core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop busines with Live Documents."

Tags: office, software, strategy, webapp, webservice