Facing the challenges of enterprise 2.0

Stuart Corner
Friday, 01 February 2008 04:46

IT Industry - Market

Butler Group - which produced a report in mid 2007 entitled 'Rich Web Applications: The business benefits of web-enabled applications development' - said: "The drivers behind consumer led Web 2.0 are also relevant to businesses: these concepts are being transferred to what is called Enterprise Web 2.0...The move within enterprises to SOA and internal Web services creates opportunities for Intranet mashups, exploiting re-use to good effect and allowing business power users to rapidly respond to business opportunities. With Enterprise Web 2.0 power users can transform and re-combine internal business processes in new ways."

WorkLight also argues that Web 2.0 technologies are already present in the enterprise, both with and without the blessing of corporate management and IT departments. "As the workforce becomes younger and tech-savvy, grassroots adoption of widgets and gadgets, RSS, personalised homepages, social networks, instant messaging, blogs and wikis are becoming standard practice within organisations worldwide."

The Forum's debut event was held 30 January in London. Founding members named include Chris Swan, director, IT research & development, Credit Suisse; John Meakin, group head of information security, Standard Chartered Bank; Stephen Bonner, head of information risk management at "a global financial services organisation"; Simon Riggs, global head of IT security with Reuters; Graeme Burnett, "top security executive at a global investment management firm" AND Andrew Yeomans, "a top security expert at a leading financial institution and a member of the Jericho Forum."

End-user organisations, vendors, integrators, consultants, analysts and other interested parties are invited to join the Forum. Contact: David Lavenda'¨VP marketing and product strategy, WorkLight '¨ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it