Enterprise 2.0, the market of vendors that sell technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networking applications to companies, is likely to become more competitive as IT budgets get trimmed.
Great insights! The massive costs of implementing Sharepoint and lotus are certainly a deterrent for any organization. One possible impact of recession could be companies outsourcing more to reduce costs, thereby increasing the need for collaboration software.
Perhaps the reason for the biggies offering SAAS versions of their popular products is because this method is increasingly popular, and is less burdensome and more predictable. But these companies will take time to find feet in the SaaS domain which is not their traditional forte. This could be a great opening for smaller collaboration players like HyperOffice which have experience in the SaaS domain, have good solutions and are well entrenched in the market.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Great insights! The massive costs of implementing Sharepoint and lotus are certainly a deterrent for any organization. One possible impact of recession could be companies outsourcing more to reduce costs, thereby increasing the need for collaboration software.Perhaps the reason for the biggies offering SAAS versions of their popular products is because this method is increasingly popular, and is less burdensome and more predictable. But these companies will take time to find feet in the SaaS domain which is not their traditional forte. This could be a great opening for smaller collaboration players like HyperOffice which have experience in the SaaS domain, have good solutions and are well entrenched in the market.