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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
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During the opening keynote of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston last week, one of the event's lead organizers said that last year's attendees asked to see more case studies with Enterprise 2.0 in action rather than vendors pontificating about their products. As a result, they were treated to some high level demonstrations of companies and organizations implementing Enterprise 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks.
These included the CIA and its Intellipedia project , Wachovia and its justification for using Enterprise 2.0 tools, and a demonstration of how Lockheed Martin rolled out social software tools to help the defense contractor enable collaboration across departmental lines.
Throughout the conference, however, many companies told CIO (mostly off the record) that they were still in the early stages with Enterprise 2.0. They were interested in rolling out Enterprise 2.0 tools in the coming year, but were using the conference as an opportunity to look at different products and learn from the challenges that the practitioners who spoke at the event experienced in their implementations.
Jonathan Yarmis, an analyst with AMR Research, also noted that the vendor to user ratio of attendees seemed tipped toward the former, adding, "The users who were there were early-stage types. [They were asking] 'What is E2.0?' and not so much 'how do I really deploy this stuff to transform my business?'"
This stat was touted several times throughout the event: The buying market for Enterprise 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks will grow to $4.6 billion by 2013, according to Forrester Research. On the vendor floor, it was easy to see why. There were approximately 50 (maybe a few more) vendors peddling enterprise wikis, blogs, RSS, social networking, and all of the above.
But it's important to remember something about the explosion of Enterprise 2.0 vendors and their place in the market. While the $4.6 billion in 2013 is no amount of money to scoff at, Forrester Analyst Oliver Young, the study's main author, told CIO back in April that number only accounts for a fraction (around 1 percent or less) of the enterprise software market. "It's a drop in the bucket," Young said at the time. "It's not very much in actuality."