Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration & Social Software. Web 2.0 Goes Corporate. Vendors Vow To Make Web 2.0 More Useful For Businesses. It's all about collaboration, but don't throw out your Microsoft Office or IBM Lotus system just yet, Google, Zimbra, and SocialText argue.
Web 2.0 can be a very successful enterprise tool, but it's still too immature to completely replace Microsoft Outlook or IBM's Lotus Notes, speakers on a Web 2.0 Expo panel said Wednesday. Asked how they would pitch a CIO or technical officer on their technology, SocialText co-founder and CEO Ross Mayfield, Matthew Glotzbach with Google Enterprise, and Zimbra co-founder and CEO Satish Dharmaraj all noted that their products add a layer of collaboration and a rich end-user experience that younger employees are demanding.
Employees "are wondering if they are violating corporate e-mail policies all the time when they back up their e-mail to Gmail," Glotzbach said. "But they do it because they know that they will have a larger space to store their e-mail and they can search for messages easier.