SaaS-y

And now for something completely different… That’s basically the point behind Phil Wainewright’s comment today on his ZDNet blog.  The hosted software model is different.  Enterprise application vendors who are retooling their offerings to be web-accessible are missing the point. 

The challenge for Enterprise 2.0 firms is to predict what users really want/need, toss out what’s extraneous and “old school,” while keeping the door open for new possibilities. 

Welcome to Enterprise 2.0

It’s here and it’s fabulous. Our alma mater is even publishing on it. See the MIT Sloan Spring report. Who knew what we were creating would become suddenly fashionable? Somehow, probably because we were, uh, working, we missed the collaboration event of the summer. Some excellent material came out of that conference, nonetheless. A nice roundup of speakers and materials is available at Rod Boothby’s web site (see post 6/25/06). ZDnet blogger Ryan Sullivan came on strong today with a pro-Web 2.0 piece today. Phil Wainewright had raised some issues last week about Web 2.0 app reliabilty that didn’t really get addressed, however. The best news today, came from CNET. An article by Martin LaMonica, “Corporate America Wakes up to Web 2.0.”