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July 2006 - Posts

The Opportunity for Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

Dislocations cause business opportunities, new marketplaces and new models of commerce. This latest dislocation is no different than previous dislocations as can bee seen from the huge number of small dynamic startups that there are in the Web 2.0 space. Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 3:42 PM by Michael Platt | 4 Comments

The Service Platform

The Consumer web (Web 2.0) and the enterprise Web (SOA) both have value and applicability, the consumer web where responsiveness and scale are important the enterprise web where security and integrity are paramount. It is highly unlikely that organizations Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 11:03 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Disruption in the IT market

So how has this disruption effected the IT market? In this context we have to think of the market as being the Enterprise Market and the Consumer Market. The Enterprise can in turn be thought of as two different parts; the Business element and the IT Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 2:12 PM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Service Component Architecture

So yet again I think I must be stupid because I don’t understand the whole Service Component Architecture thing. It looks like a programming model (e.g. set of API's) to build web services. I thought that’s one of the many things that J2EE was meant to Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 11:32 AM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments

The New Marketing

As I have commented on before the disruption that is taking place in the consumer space that is commonly called web 2.0 will rapidly move into the enterprise and cause massive dislocations in product development, marketing, sales, support and training. Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:54 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

The Next Disruption

We are entering a time of rapid change in the IT industry which will cause considerable disruption and change in business, IT companies and the way that people perceive and use technologies. This dislocation is similar to the PC and internet revolutions Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:53 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Broswer / Client War part 1 million.

The "browser can do everything" vs "one (old) size wont fit all" argument rumbles on with Robert and Tara (love the picture) on one side and Joe and Ryan on the other. I remember when the PC was first attached to the Mainframe using a 3270 card I took Read More...
Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 2:05 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Experience And Service

The snag with my previous diagram was that there was a big oval called delivery that S+S didnt address. Ray has just fixed that by describing the Experience Hub at the Microsoft's annual Finacial Analysts event. He also rolled up Software + Services into Read More...
Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 1:51 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

A diagram for Software + Services

On the principle that a picture is worth a thousand words here is how Software + Services fits together: Read More...
Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 2:04 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Adding Products to S+S

So now I can add some of the Microsoft Product set to my table: Model Name Consumer Enterprise Sales Marchitecture Web 2.0 SOA Service Software Saas Servers Live Windows Conceptual Application Mashups Composite apps Collaboration Social Network Spaces, Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 5:42 PM by Michael Platt | 2 Comments

Software + Service: Web 2.0 and SOA

Ok, so I am pretty slow. Ray Ozzie et al have been banging on for a while about Software + Services and I thought it meant office type software and web services so couldnt really see what all the big fuss was about. Duh, I just realised it means Web 2.0 Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 5:33 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Another attempt to tabulate the Web 2.0 and SOA worlds

Consumer Enterprise Name User Level Mashups Composite applications Application Business Conceptual Social Network Sharing Collaboration Discussion email Communication Tags Discovery Search Search Search Trust Reputation Relationship Idm Identity Video Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 12:04 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Wither the Server in a SaaS world

Server based systems such as ERP, CRM, email, database and collaboration are well understood as single standalone applications today. They provide the highest levels of service, reliability, scalability, availability, security and integrity and are what Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 11:15 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Some Websites showing properties of Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Innovation Marketing Sales Support Training Read More...
Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 4:20 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Layers of Web 2.0

I have been trying to come up with a layers of Web 2.0 diagram (a bit like the old OSI 7 layer diagram ) which ties together all the buzz technologies and came up with this: Mashups Application Conceptual Composite apps Collaboration Edge Communication Read More...
Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 3:53 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

MutiChannel Service Delivery: SaaS, ASP, Hosting ect

So I'm confused. Nothing new there but I went to a Softricity presentation the other day (a very neat piece of technology by the way) where the presenter said that Softricity was " Software as a Service ". Well to me it was more of a software deployment Read More...
Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 11:48 AM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

More on WS vs REST

A while ago I blogged about Web Services and REST but Zapthink have just published a much more in depth and considered article which I completely agree with. Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:38 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Analysts on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0

I'm not much of a fan of analysts in general however I think that they really seem to have "got it" about Web 2.0 and its use in the enterprise, much more so than the Web 2.0 industry which seems to be much more about hype than substance. Here is another Read More...
Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 11:02 AM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Are crowds wise?

There are a number of different conference formats going on such as camps, unconferences, geek dinners etc which are trying to tap into the whole wisdom of the crowds meme. I have been to a number of these and some are definitely more successful than Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:17 PM by Michael Platt | 2 Comments

Zapthink on Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and Mashups

Zapthink have an interesting set of articles about SOA and Web 2.0 culminating in one around Model Driven Mashups . Whilst I agree with most of the article I am hesitant about the concept of a wonder toolset that does everything for you. Smacks a bit Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 1:15 PM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments
 
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