WHITE PAPERS SPONSORED PROFILES JOB BOARD WEBINAR CENTER FREE SOFTWARE BZ RESEARCH ALMSHAREPOINT EVENTS CALENDAR PRINT/PDF EDITION PRINT/PDF BACK ISSUES

SUBSCRIBE TODAY CUSTOMER SERVICE EDITORIAL CALENDAR EDITORIAL BEATS GUEST VIEW GUIDE SD TIMES 100 GUIDE EVENTS CALENDAR ADVERTISING ARTICLE REPRINTS REPORT A BUG SITE MAP

ABOUT US BZ MEDIA NEWS BZ RESEARCH NEWS ON MONDAY SPTECHREPORT SPTECHWEB SPTECHCON IPHONE/IPAD DEVCON ANDROID DEVCON PRIVACY POLICY CONTACT US

HOME >> OPINIONS

From the Editors: Embrace Enterprise 2.0

By SD Times Editorial Board

December 1, 2009 — (Page 1 of 2)
Social networking is entering the workforce. It’s our role to support that new technology and to encourage efforts to improve business productivity using social tools.

However, we should tread cautiously. IT should not get too far ahead of management and workers and launch grand initiatives that don’t solve real business problems. We should also be careful not to impose too many controls on social computing: Centralization will stifle innovation. Top-down approaches or imposing a hierarchical model will neutralize the benefits of Enterprise 2.0.

Social networks are transforming the personal lives of many people in many parts of the world. Whether you’re in the U.S., Japan, China or Europe, it’s hard for many people between the ages of 15 and 65 to go even a few hours without checking their Facebook or Twitter account. So it’s only natural that those technologies are finding their way into the office.

If colleagues are also friends on Facebook, it seems natural to leverage that path as a more efficient vehicle for collaboration than corporate e-mail. After all, co-workers are already used to phoning or texting each other using personal cell phones instead of routing messages through the PBX.

Our advice is to watch for skunkwork initiatives in social networking, but instead of crushing them, find ways to support them using secure, scalable channels. If different business units or project teams are experimenting with separate offerings, let all those trials go forward. Social networking tools—and use cases—are changing quickly, and today’s super-popular solution may be tomorrow’s dinosaur.

Embrace the gardens of innovation within your company. Your end users are very likely smarter about these issues than anyone in the software development department; you can learn from them and benefit your entire company.

Apache’s decade of success
The Apache Software Foundation is uniquely successful, and we applaud its first 10 years of delivering software that benefits not only the Apache community, but also the software industry and enterprise developers.

When you compare Apache with other industry groups that started out to support the Java platform, like the Eclipse Foundation or the Java Community Process, you realize that they can’t be compared.

Related Search Term(s): Apache

Pages 1 2

Share this link: http://sdt.bz/33955

Most Read Latest News Blog Resources

Appcelerator Acquires Cocoafish to Add Instant Mobile Cloud Capabilities to its Industry Leading Titanium Platform
Appcelerator Offers Messaging, Social, Location and Storage Mobile Cloud Services to All Mobile App Publishers

Taking enterprise architecture to the business side
Startup Corso is bringing out a cloud-based planning platform that ties into business plans

ComponentOne Releases a Collection of 40+ UI Widgets Powered by HTML5 and jQuery
ComponentOne has announced the 2012 release of Wijmo: a kit of UI widgets for HTML5 and jQuery development

Top five apps to manage your workload
Web applications offer new ways to track your “to-do” lists

Taking enterprise architecture to the business side
Startup Corso is bringing out a cloud-based planning platform that ties into business plans

Top five apps to manage your workload
Web applications offer new ways to track your “to-do” lists

Not so fast when it comes to testing in the cloud
Developers face outsourcing, virtual lab management and mobile devices as obstacles

Xceed releases UX-focused suite for Microsoft’s WPF
"Blendables" helps match user experiences to developer visions

Are you at risk for burnout?
Burnout is a severe problem and it can strike at any time. Here's how to tell if you are nearing the edge.

Agility, mom, and apple pie
If we're to evaluate the state-of-the-art in software development, we should start with the values espoused in the Agile Manifesto.

RIM woos developers with free tablet
How do you get more apps ported to the BlackBerry PlayBook? By giving every developer a free tablet, of course!

GitHire: Use Headhunters to Find Your Perfect Programmer
Are you a hiring manager tired of scouring the job boards? Check out this new service that will find 5 people interested in your jobs.

The Hidden Costs of Software Licensing Moving beyond paper-based software licensing to more flexible, software-based licensing is a business decision. There is a growing trend tow...

Case Study: You May Need a Development Mechanic As a contractor for a major financial player in Germany, SOBEGE, a German-based consultancy specializing in embedded IT and web services, wa...

Ensuring Software Quality at a Major International Bank One of the world’s leading international banks has adopted AgitarOne technology for delivering generated unit tests for their Java software...

Load Testing Adobe Flex Applications Adobe Flex applications may be different from applications you’ve worked with before. For classic HTML web applications, the server does all...

Technorati

Digg

Slashdot

Facebook

Friendfeed

Twitter

del.icio.us

Adobe turns Flex dev framework over to Apache This move follows on the heels of news that the company would no longer develop Flash for new mobile devices

Talend adds Apache-based ESB to product line Enterprise Service Bus added to line-up of open source integration products

Five Apache projects you may not know about From content management to XMPP to extracting metadata, these projects may be worth a second (or first) look

Add comment

Name*
Email*
Country

Comment

Adobe turns Flex dev framework over to Apache
This move follows on the heels of news that the company would no longer develop Flash for new mobile devices Read More...

News on Monday
more>>
SharePoint Tech Report
more>>

Download Current Issue
FEBRUARY 2012 PDF ISSUE

Need Back Issues?
DOWNLOAD HERE

Want to subscribe?

Are you at risk for burnout?
Burnout is a severe problem and it can strike at any time. Here's how to tell if you are nearing the edge.
02/09/2012 02:16 PM EST

Agility, mom, and apple pie
If we're to evaluate the state-of-the-art in software development, we should start with the values espoused in the Agile Manifesto.
02/07/2012 11:57 AM EST

RIM woos developers with free tablet
How do you get more apps ported to the BlackBerry PlayBook? By giving every developer a free tablet, of course!
02/04/2012 01:57 PM EST

GitHire: Use Headhunters to Find Your Perfect Programmer
Are you a hiring manager tired of scouring the job boards? Check out this new service that will find 5 people interested in your jobs.
02/03/2012 12:17 PM EST

Facebook claims hacker cred
Facebook's SEC S-1 filing form includes a short essay on the Hacker Way by Mark Zuckerberg himself.
02/02/2012 08:26 AM EST

Ryan Dahl steps down
Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js, steps back from his position as gatekeeper for the project.
02/01/2012 04:58 PM EST