We find that the consumer web is highly matured and we find a lot of consumer focused applications being hosted and created in the web every day, examples being Google, myspace, youtube and so on. On the contrary, enterprise web is still appears to be a long term vision and here is why
1. Today's web 2.0 applications are generally point solutions addressing a specific business or consumer need. Business needs solutions that are an aggregation of such point services. Today there is no standard platform available in the web to provide such mash-up services and no major service providers or vendors who specialize in building mash-ups based applications. Even assuming something like this happens, enterprises would end up partnering with multiple service providers and managing the portfolio of the providers will be a big challenge.
2. Also, enterprise software needs capabilities to integrate and extend itself. Today there are no standard popular platforms that would help enterprise to integrate on-demand software with their existing on-premise applications.
Today we see some encouraging trends in both these spaces, for instance
- Informatica has a on-demand data integration platform designed for on-demand applications - of course application provider should provide support for this
- SQS - Simple Queue Service from Amazon provides a reliable queue service in the cloud, which can be used for Asynchronous integration requirements
- BridgeWerx has an SOA solution to integrate on-demand applications and on-premise application on a single SOA platform.
- Jamcracker is trying to create a role for Aggregators through its JSDN. But still, integrated pricing, SLA's is still a dream.
- Today we don't have SaaS applications in all domains, currently we see major adoptions only in domains like CRM, Spend Management, HR, Collaboration. We should start building applications in other areas covering the entire spectrum of Business users.
Once we have some major players providing integration platforms and aggregation platform, the web (2.0) will become better equipped to meet the needs of enterprise.
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1 comment:
Thanks for the note Kafeel, i will definitely look at their new offering and cover their new services in a later post. If JamCracker is successful in doing that, then its the dawn of a new ecosystem, you guys are definitely thinking ahead..
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