Recommended Dion Hinchcliffe’s Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch @Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com

Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com.

I expect to see a new wave of unified communication products that include Enterprise 2.0 as a first class citizen.Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground quite rapidly while still not being used for core business functions or mission critical applications in most large firms, at least not yet.

The reality is that broader social and cloud computing trends continue to evolve faster than most enterprises are able to absorb. It may be years before many organizations are comfortable with and ready to adopt either of these technologies strategically despite apparent benefits.

However, that doesn’t mean that it’s not important for organizations to closely track both of these leading computing trends (both have solid double digit industry growth) and understand the emerging technologies that are likely to shape their use in key business functions in the near future. In fact, quite the contrary, particularly when it comes to Enterprise 2.0.

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