Some Challenges in Applying Web 2.0 in the Enterprise 1) Development Challenges All of this needs close ties to manageability The big design tension: Fast and easy vs. well designed and well engineered Lack of standard development methods with Web 2.0: Need proven tools and enterprise design patterns We now have tools built to bring applications together very quickly, in contrast with traditional development platforms And if you build them this way, how can you make them scale to million of customers? Lots of existing platforms with different tools, how to preserve an organization's huge investment in current skills and technologies? 2) Business Value Is there broad business value in social networking? How to do this dealing with a lot of private customer data? It's not likely you'll want to bring people together to share customer data Not entirely clear yet how to apply social networking profitably to business models ^{link »}

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