Enterprise 2.0: Oracle Plans New Business Apps, With A Social Twist

1) Fortune 1000 companies are balancing the benefit of web 2.0 style collaboration versus the need to maintain control over company information flow. 2) Oracle Investment in Enterprise 2.0 will help validate the use of new web 2.0 style collaborative technologies in an enterprise environment 3) Oracle's investment will drive other enterprise software companies such as SAP to invest as well.

Oracle has always had very solid and innovative ideas on just what a database can do. In this case, though, they have to balance a number of things in order to have this new suite be something that is indispensable rather than a novelty. This means balancing ease-of-use with power-use, flexibility with structure, and features with reliability. All the while keeping this suite something unique that...

Making applications easier to use will help increase the breadth and depth of their deployment within an organization.  Applications that allow user collaboration are also likely to see increased usage, especially in organizations that encourage interdepartmental cooperation rather than departmental rivalries.  In many situations, especially among nontechnical users, an application...

Oracle is getting close to delivering on their promises about Fusion.  If the final suite of products can match the early previews, they have achieved a “game-changer” in enterprise applications.