The Enterprise Social Search feed jockey
November
An article originally posted on www.readwriteweb.com
Oliver Young, an analyst at Forrester Research, stated that despite there being a lot of buzz about the consumer market for web 2.0 applications, “the greatest opportunity today for vendors is in the business-to-business collaboration space”.
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
The trend is definitely about social networks and mashups, but what about B2B collaboration spaces? Tools like Basecamp started early by providing a simple SaaS solution where one can manage projects with his clients. In the enterprise, trends are clearly growing towards solutions answering such needs: not only can project management be done with your clients, but so can knowledge management.
Your comments
November 11, 2008 by Troy Malone #888
Absolutely right. Corporations are just getting wise to the fact that tools for group collaboration on projects are available. The early majority doesn’t even know that Basecamp or Pelotonics exist, and that’s a great market opportunity. I think that corporate twitter and the like are still a ways off.