by Joe McKendrick
September 21, 2007 at 5:13 pm
· Filed under Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0
Word is out that Gartner, Inc., the firm that never met a buzzword it didn’t like, has signaled its disapproval at the “Web 3.0″ moniker that is sometimes applied to the Semantic Web.
According to Network World, Gartner analysts at the consultancy’s latest innovation summit said that new technologies such as virtual worlds and the Semantic Web do not deserve their own new label, since “they’re not providing the same kind of fundamental change as blogs, wikis and social networking tools.” As analyst Gene Phifer put it: “It’s not going to be another era like Web 2.0. However, there will be some very interesting innovative things coming out. If you’re in love with numbering schemes, maybe it’s Web 2.1.”
Fair enough. Web 2.1 it is. But does that mean we have to go to Enterprise 2.1?
Gartner analysts also took some Enterprise 2.0 thinking to task, saying the stock enterprise approaches to technology management won’t work here. Analyst Tom Austin is quoted as saying that “the biggest problem with Enterprise 2.0 is thinking about it as ‘what product do I buy and how many people are using it.’ This isn’t an issue of provisioning telephone service.”
Gartner projects a 42% compound annual growth rate in the Web 2.0 market through 2011. Best of all, much of the stuff is cheap, they said. Phifer pointed out that “mashup technology might cost a few hundred thousand dollars, while blogging and wiki tools could cost a few thousand. But that’s not as expensive as acquiring and managing a traditional software infrastructure. You’re not looking at humongous investments.”
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demp15September 24th, 2007 at 10:00 am |
This announcement from Microvantage should really get many companies on board!
There has never been a better time than now to utilize the power of Web 2.0 software within your company. While buzzwords such as Tagging, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Blogs, Wikis, and Expertise Location have all become industry-wide technology terms, only one-third of companies have experienced the benefits these technologies provide. For many CIOs the case has been the cost to implement Web 2.0 as prices range anywhere from $200 per user license. Within an enterprise comprising of more than 40,000 this brings the cost to a little over $8 million. MSG, a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer Group, believes this is outrageous and wants to promote Web 2.0 adoption through their $0 cost price model.
MSG’s software suite, called KnowledgeMe, has been built using the .Net development platform, AJAX technologies, rich user controls, and SQL Server. This makes the application very robust and scalable while also allowing for easy customization and enhancements.
KnowledgeMe will be made available for download in mid November. To get more information send your request to sales@microvantage.com. More than 350 companies have requested to be notified of this release.
Joe,
I’ll repeat for you what I’m telling Gartner. Web 3.0 is for real. It may not be all here yet, but the fundamental shift is from information-centric to knowledge-centric patterns of computing. Gartner doesn’t get this yet. But, that’s OK. They will eventually.
So, what’s different? Knowledge-centric computing means that knowledge is represented in both human and machine interpretable form. It is not locked up in documents, in black-box objects, in procedural code. It separate from these, and accessible to a variety reasoners. This changes user experience, social computing, application concepts of operation, and infrastructure in a hundred ways. We get more than webs of connected information, and webs of social participation. We get webs of meaning and connected knowledge. Not just passive knowledge, which gives us better searching and navigating, but also active knowledge for a range of self* capabilities — adaptive, autonomic, autonomous. But, I’ll let you in on a secret: the big shift from IT as it has been practiced until now is that with web 3.0 we enable architectures of learning.
Who gets this? Telecom people do. They’ve figured out that they can’t deliver context-aware, personalizable services, anytime, anywhere without semantics. Grid computing people have figured out that they can’t virtualize and manage services effectively with stack architectures. They need semantic models that cut across all the layers orthogonally. COTS people get this now too, there is no way to make SOA work without semantics. They are starting inside, with the middleware. And it’s beginning to dawn on the hardware people that semantic models (e.g. semantic agents) might be just the approach they need to make multi-core, multi-thread, distributed processors programmable, especially as the number of processing units increases. For us, a really exciting area is the future of distributive collaborative environments — collective knowledge systems, semantic usites, and semantic advertising.
If you want to know more about how web 3.0 will really impact the consumer internet, ICT products and services, and industry verticals, then go to http://www.project10x.com. There you can download a prospectus for our forthcoming study “Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0.” The prospectus contains an executive summary of the report thesis.
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