Why Stop at Enterprise 2.0? – IIR Portals, Collaboration and Content conference renamed Enterprise3
by Bill Ives
The Collaboration Technologies Conference had already grabbed the name, the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, last year so the Portals, Collaboration and Content conference moved on to select Enterprise3. Actually one of the major sections of the conference is Enterprise 2.0 and to be fair they mean enterprise cubed or as in the Boston Celtics, the Enterprise Big Three – Portals, Collaboration, and Web. If you live in Boston you might ask which one is KG? I would vote for the last one. A few years ago I used run a portals practice but now it seems funny to still hear about portals. However, they are very much in existence, depending on your definition.
The wikipedia defines an Enterprise portal, as “a framework to provide a single point of access to a variety of information and tools.” But then defines Portal (fiction) as, “a magical or technological doorway that connects two distant locations.” As I witnessed some old style portal implementations run into the millions a few years ago without yet working I was not sure which definition was correct. What I have now seen that with some enterprise 2.0 composite applications, the single point becomes an intelligence integrator and not simply a doorway.
The conference site said,
“Portal technology has changed dramatically during the ten years I have been chairing this event. During this time period, portals have evolved from simply replacing intranets to embracing all aspects of enterprise computing for delivering and sharing business content both inside and outside organizations. To reflect the important role portals now play in the enterprise, the IIR Portals, Collaboration and Content conference has been renamed to Enterprise3.”
This is a good move and I am sure it will be a good conference looking at the program. It is coming up soon, May 19 -22 in San Diego. Apologies to the conference but it is late on a rainy Friday and I could resist these comments. Have a great weekend.
