January 4th, 2008
Enterprise Web 2.0 ready for 2008
Dion Hinchcliffe offers 12 predictions for enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008, citing the following as a foundation for reshaping corporate IT:
The driving forces for change this year will be the aging of existing IT systems, the rise of up-and-coming new approaches such as highly capable new Web-based applications, mashups, collective intelligence powered business software, Web-oriented architectures, and last but certainly not least, social software. These are providing the raw materials to use upon the freshly cleared canvases many organizations are readying for themselves as many organizations begin to retool and upgrade.
Read Dion’s post for all the insight into each prediction.
- SOA finally goes pragmatic, Web-oriented, and lightweight.
- Enterprise search will remain broken or highly limited in most organizations.
- Security will become a major concern as Web 2.0 apps and SaaS make the edge of enterprises increasingly porous.
- Unstructured information from blogs and wikis will proliferate, driving demand for solutions to extract and consolidate business information.
- A large number of enterprise intranets will get social networking capabilities.
- Enterprise mashups will make their appearance in a widespread way but won’t take off big, yet.
- Budget for next generation governance infrastructure will be demanded by IT to manage the proliferation of SaaS, new SOA, and mashups.
- Collective intelligence platforms and enterprise decision management support applications will see significant early adoption this year.
- New rich user experience platforms such as Adobe AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight will see widespread use in the enterprise in 2008.
- Mobile devices, such as the iPhone and especially the BlackBerry, will see significant uptake for embedding workers into business processes and Web-based collaboration.
- Web 2.0 versions of traditional enterprise applications will struggle for marketshare amongst the software giants.
- Enterprise 2.0 will become a standard feature in most organizations, while views on the outcomes of deployments in organizations will be viewed through the lens of predisposition.
Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of CNET News.com, has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
