Web2.0 in the enterprise
Web 2.0 is all about the transition from individual productivity (user running MS office locally) to group productivity (collective document generation & editing – forums & wikis).
Enterprise Web 2.0 benefits:
- Less email costs (increased use of blogs, wikis)
- Search benefits (document collection and archive)
- Easier updates/patches (central update as opposed to mass desktop updates)
- More transparency (this should in fact be first on the list of benefits).
When organizations don’t provide employees the necessary tools, they go out to get them thus violating company policy. A good example is employees using Yahoo mail and Gmail for storing and forwarding big company confidential documents since corporations have a 100MB mailbox limit.
P.S. Google Docs is the currently the second biggest money maker for Google after Adsense. Maybe that’ll change soon with the introduction of ads in Youtube.
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