Track Chair: Steve Wylie
General Manager and Conference Director
TechWeb
Web 2.0 tools are entering the workplace with the promise of breaking down information boundaries, providing greater collaboration and speeding productivity and workflow. The Enterprise 2.0 track examines the latest tools and technologies changing the way companies work including; Social Networking, Collaboration, Social Search and Wikis. Through thought leadership, expert analysis and best practices, the Enterprise 2.0 track provides the information you need to successfully take your company to a new level.
To date, technology analysts have quite properly focused on the social and business aspects of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. And yet, Enterprise 2.0 tools (including collaboration suites, pure-play blog / wiki / social-networking products, and revamped portal products from major vendors) differ quite substantially in maturity, approach, and support. This session will share customer research from noted evaluation firm CMS Watch on leading Enterprise 2.0 technologies, and provide a framework for customers to evaluate the marketplace based on their own needs.
Adoption of Unified Communications is on the rise, with the promise of more integration between users, business applications and the communication systems that support them. But IT and business managers have also had their eye on Enterprise 2.0 applications that some would argue are trying to achieve the same objectives. Are the UC and E2 agendas coming together or are they destined to duke it out for their share of the social enterprise?
Social bookmarking installations often go from good to great to overwhelming. Although social bookmarking offers a rich potential for discovery and connecting it requires analysis and understanding of what is hidden in the mass of shared contributions. This session will show how to manage and make sense out of this flood of information.
The keys to successful operations today, no matter what your enterprise does? Flexibility. Communication. Productivity. User-driven methodologies, tools and techniques that push information-intense activities to the edge of the networks. This session will examine how to gain these benefits with a highly-mobile, wireless-dependent workforce, and how collaboration, social networking, and mobility will meet to define the IT solutions of the future.
