For Vendor Strategy Professionals (Length: 29 pages)

November 3, 2008

Forrester TechRadar For Vendor Strategists: Enterprise Web 2.0

How Product Strategists Should Approach A Maturing Web 2.0 Market, Q4 2008

by G. Oliver Young

with Gil Yehuda, Kyle McNabb, Peter Burris, Sara Burnes, Zachary Reiss-Davis

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Vendors looking to sell into the market for enterprise Web 2.0 collaboration tools face a distinct landscape of technologies and ecosystem players. Navigating this maze will be critical to building long-term client customer value and profitable business. Tracking the maturity of enterprise Web 2.0 technologies is critical to timing strategic initiatives and tactical actions. In a careful examination of the marketplace and trends for enterprise Web 2.0 tools, we reveal that organizations find wikis valuable, forums stable (though underutilized) and blogging success mixed. Enterprise social networking tools stand ready to redefine workplace collaboration, becoming the major battleground in the fight to sell Web 2.0 tools to the enterprise.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemOverview: Forrester's TechRadar For Enterprise Web 2.0

itemWhy Do These 11 Technologies Appear In The TechRadar?

itemEnterprise Web 2.0 TechRadar: Content Plus Social Context Will Drive Adoption

itemCreation: Despite Hype, Microblogging Is Just Not Ready For The Enterprise

itemSurvival: Three Challenge The Status Quo; Enterprises Can Transform With Social Networks

itemGrowth: Wikis Help Transform Collaboration; RSS Underperforms At Work

itemEquilibrium: Stable Technologies Provide Moderate Value, But Only When Put To Use

itemDecline: Improving Enterprise Adoption Keeps Web 2.0 Technologies From Decline

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itemVendors Must Work To Build A Market-Proof Suite Of Tools And Services

For this TechRadar™ evaluation, we reviewed Forrester's past research on Web 2.0, interviewed more than 10 industry experts, more than 45 vendors responsible for building or implementing these technologies, and also spoke with more than 125 enterprise customers and users using varying Web 2.0 technologies.

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Analyst: G. Oliver Young
Technology: Enterprise Collaboration, Information & Knowledge Management
Industry: Computer Software Industry, High-Tech, Product & Solutions Strategies
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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Rating: 9 out of 10
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