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2012 Is Shaping Up As the Year of Open APIs

2012 Is Shaping Up As the Year of Open APIs

By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 18, 2011

It was just over a decade ago that businesses were still wondering why it was necessary to have a Web site. Now it’s a foregone conclusion that they are one of the most important touchpoints for any organization to possess….

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Application programming interface, Cloud Computing, CxO Issues, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, google, Google Analytics, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, REST, SOA, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) | 1 Response

Social Objects: The New Halo Around Web And Enterprise Data

Social Objects: The New Halo Around Web And Enterprise Data

By Dion Hinchcliffe on August 5, 2010

For most of the history of the Web, it’s been about pages and links. This simple yet profoundly powerful structure has led to many of the most important capabilities of the Internet including search, analytics, network effects, and many other…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged activity streams, Enterprise architecture, HTTP, Industry Trends, information management, iPhone, mashups, Open APIs, RSS, social business, social computing, social graph, Social Objects, Syndication

The Advent of the Social Supply Chain

The Advent of the Social Supply Chain

By Dion Hinchcliffe on April 22, 2010

I have been writing about and working with open supply chains for some years now, specifically how businesses are increasingly opening up their borders to much more dynamic, scalable, and valuable supply chain and partnership scenarios. Up until recently, the story of advancement when it came to supply chains has been one of technological improvement. Most recently, large enterprise suites and hand-crafted proprietary solutions have started to give way to SaaS and cloud approaches to supply chain management, which will be state of the art much sooner rather than later.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Blog Post, Community, competency networks, Knowledge Management, Open APIs, open supply chains, social business, social business design, social supply chain, software as a service, supply chain, supply chain management | 4 Responses

Making government more open and social

Making government more open and social

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 28, 2010

Can social tools and community-based approaches truly help our government function better and operate more efficiently? Will open access to government data create important new opportunities for citizens and increase transparency? As we’ll see, these two questions are currently top-of-mind in many public sector policy discussions this year. The questions also herald underlying forces at work in the government landscape in many countries around the world, including the United states.

Here are some of the initiatives that are taking place this year and what’s happening with Government 2.0 as 2010 begins to heat up.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture of Participation, blogs, Business Models, collaboration, Collective intelligence, Community, community management, Digital Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Governance, Government 2.0, Grassroots Community, Open APIs, social computing, Social Economy, Social Media, social networking, social software, social web, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Wikis

The Enterprise Data Cloud: Why Information Power Is The Future of Business

The Enterprise Data Cloud: Why Information Power Is The Future of Business

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 23, 2010

As organizations take a close hard look at cloud computing and how it can help them with their businesses, some are coming away unimpressed by the maturity or with concerns about risk, control, and privacy. Yet others are beginning to…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing, databases, digital business models, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, Open Data, open supply chains, SOA, strategy

First impressions of Google Buzz: Smart, useful, long road ahead

First impressions of Google Buzz: Smart, useful, long road ahead

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 9, 2010

Earlier this afternoon Google Buzz went live after a comprehensive launch event streamed live over YouTube. Buzz is a brand-new social tool that helps users to share updates, links, photos, videos, and more with the online world at large. Aimed at consumers and eventually enterprises, Buzz is Google’s most serious Social Web play yet. Find out why with my detailed breakdown and analysis.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged collaboration, Community, Enterprise 2.0, google, Google Buzz, Mobile Internet, Mobile Web, Open APIs, SaaS, search, Search Engines, social computing, Social Media, social networking, social software, social web, Twitter, Web 2.0, YouTube | 3 Responses

The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive

The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 5, 2010

There’s been some useful discussion recently about using the app store model for distributing enterprise software and services within organizations. Up until now, most IT needs in the majority of businesses have been met largely through one-size-fits-all delivery of solutions…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, Business, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, infotech, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, SaaS, smbs, SOA, strategy, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) | 19 Responses

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs - Exploring The Macro Conditions

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – Exploring The Macro Conditions

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 2, 2010

Ray Wang began an excellent discussion last month that highlighted the major shifts and disruptive forces that the modern CIO faces today. It’s a given with most executives these days that the business landscape is quite a different one than it was just two short years ago. As part of this, many long-held assumptions and […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, cios, Crowdsourcing, enterprise, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, Open APIs, Open Business Models, social business, social computing, transformation

The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

By Dion Hinchcliffe on January 20, 2010

The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social Web as a global force in the last several years has done a great deal to highlight their potential to fundamentally alter the way we communicate and collaborate both at home and in business. However, despite the movement of social computing into our daily lives we’re all clearly on a long journey together as the technologies themselves emerge from infancy.

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.

Fortunately the Web doesn’t stand still and there continues continues to be rapid research and development when it comes to the mechanics of today’s online social universe. There are many new efforts under way to refine and improve the world of social media, some of which we’ll explore here and many which are just beginning…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged atom, Badges, blogs, collaboration, Community, Convergence, Enterprise Web 2.0, Facebook, Gadgets, Identity 2.0, Lightweight Service Models, Loosely Joined, microformats, Open APIs, openid, Products, RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, social computing, Social Media, social networking, social networks, social software, social web, Structured Content, The Social Graph, Twitter, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, widgets, Wikis

Open APIs Mature Into a Next-Generation Business Model

Open APIs Mature Into a Next-Generation Business Model

By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 2, 2009

I’ve been bullish for several years now on the potential of using open APIs as a new channel to the online business world, in particular using them to scale up new business relationships quickly and cost-effectively. Internet technology has made this possible for for a decade or more, but it’s taken a while for awareness […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged API, B2B, Business Development, Business Models, Cloud Computing, cloud services, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, mashups, Network Security, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, REST, salesforce, SOA, supply chain management, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web services, web services security, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) Tags: amazon

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