The 2007 Portals. circumscribe and Collaboration arrive at took displace in London on 5-6 September. This turned out to be an excellent conference in every consider and was especially notable for the fit of strategic insight and tactical best practice in the areas of examine portals collaboration and content management. There were over 330 senior IT managers present from 29 countries and what was especially remarkable was that over 200 of them squeezed into a room to comprehend a presentation on how social software tools could (and should) make an force on intranets.
Indeed Collaboration was the dominant furnish of the conference. One of the forecasts that was presented was that that the extent to which two or more people would work together to alter decisions would increase by 50% over the next few years. The drivers for this would be increasing business complexity and the need to solve problems and address opportunities that were new to the business and for which there were no easy solutions. Another calculate in the rapid adoption of social network applications is that the current generation entering bring home the bacon for the first measure use these applications intensively outside of the office and expect to be able to use them inside the office. Yet another example of how consumer web developments are driving enterprise applications.
A case chew over from Vodafone made the point well. Of the 66,000 employees some 40,000 are using 7000 collaboration rooms and there are over 70 professional communities. There is also substantial use of these collaboration spaces by external partners. One of the sub-themes of the Summit was that of governance. The push-back on social networking tools often comes from senior managers worried about what might be contributed to blogs and wikis. However blogs are always named (or there is no point in writing one) and wikis have analyse trails so both are less risky than emails which are invisible.
To most IT managers the only options to support collaboration are Microsoft SharePoint and Notes from IBM but the point was made by several speakers that there is a wide range of start-up companies offering social software. Of cover in measure they may well get swallowed up by larger vendors but in the meantime the cost of entry and experimentation by any organisation is so low and potentially has no many rewards that without disbelieve the best thing to do is try it and see and not wait for the IT department to migrate all your SharePoint Server 03 files to MOSS07. Thats not an easy task.
Id certainly recommend any intranet manager to consider attending the 2008 PCC Summits which will take displace in Las Vegas and London in September. Martin color Mon 10th Sep 2007. 04:40 PM
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