Software 2006

I'm at MR Rangaswami's big event, CIO survey released today (pdf), VC interest growing and opportunities abbound for SaaS, SoA and Open Source. The web 2.0 enterprise potential Revenue will flow when and automaker pays for podcast about new car features, consumer goods company delivers an RSS feed for new product info and tech giant blog to the world about R&D. If you are doing wikis or blogs, how do you get that information out to the world? Tacit person-to-person interractionis 41% share of worker activity, but only 24% of software spending. Lots of good things for customers as well as helping them get to the consumer. McKinsey Report SandHill.com and McKinsey released an In particular, we believe the opportunity will exist to complement and enable "tacit interactions" - the most rapidly growing component of business labor cost. Person-to-person tacit interactions involve judgment or insight applied to complex communications or problem solving, and often occurs in, say, management, sales, customer service. , Tacit interactions differ from transformational interactions (changing a physical good into something else) and transactional interactions (following set rules in a repeatable fashion). They now represent 41 percent of all U.S. worker activity (measured by number of jobs) and are growing the most rapidly. However, only 24 percent of software investments today support them, indicating a significant potential opportunity for vendors with the right solutions. The software capabilities required will be different from those which led to significant productivity gains over the last decade through transaction automation and scaling Key opportunities for innovating in tacit interactions include software tools to increase access to data and information, support decisions, improve communications, and support multi-party workflows and collaboration - all likely parts of Web 2.0 for the enterprise. Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Socialtext, an emerging provider of Enterprise Social Software that dramatically increases group productivity and develops a group memory. He also writes