{"id":36767,"date":"2007-03-21T03:43:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T08:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=36767"},"modified":"2020-04-14T01:37:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:37:52","slug":"three-trends-influencing-enterprise-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/three-trends-influencing-enterprise-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Trends Influencing Enterprise 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trend #1: Shift to Cloud Computing<\/strong><\/p>\n

In “cloud computing,” documents and business information are managed online. Google is rapidly building an amazing platform<\/a> for rolling out on-demand applications on a worldwide scale. Very soon, Google Apps will be a good-enough solution for millions of small business to solve most document management and collaboration problems. Have an idea where all these multi-tenant applications and zetabytes of data<\/a> will be hosted? Google will spend $500M<\/span> $3B this year to build the largest data center in the world.<\/p>\n

Services like Amazon EC2<\/a> (covered here<\/a> and here<\/a>) offer pay-as-you-go fully managed server time. On-demand computing is going to completely change enterprise IT architecture. When it only costs $70 a month for a dedicated virtual server with fantastic connectivity 24\/7, and you can turn them on and off as needed, why would you want to mess with hardware on-premises?<\/p>\n

 
\nTrend #2: Growth of Web 2.0 Content and Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Since 2005, many successful venture<\/a> capitalists have been trying to find<\/a> yet another promising Web 2.0 startup to add to their portfolios. Pundits speculate that during the last two years close to a billion dollars were invested into Web 2.0. During the next five to seven years all this money will pull off a lot of infrastructure with an enormous amount of content and data on it.<\/p>\n

But in order for a Web 2.0 company to secure longevity, aggregating terabytes of user-generated content and having lots of servers to serve traffic to gazillions of registered users is not enough. You’ve got to create an ecosystem. How will these newly minted Web 2.0 companies create ecosystems? Ecosystems will come through APIs and data mashups with other websites. ProgrammableWeb maintains the best up-to-date API directory<\/a>. Look at how fast APIs are being added to their database. In a very short period of time, the key advances of Web 2.0 (namely collaboration and new ways of sharing information) will become an attractive target to benefit enterprises.<\/p>\n

 
\nTrend #3: Mashups<\/strong><\/p>\n

2007 has been named by BusinessWeek as “the year of the widget<\/a>.” Widgets are small embeddable components that can seamlessly integrate on third party sites and can deliver content from beyond the realm of the site. To help users create widgets, a growing number of companies out there are developing mashup building tools:<\/p>\n