Arizona State University
December 22, 2006ASU Blogs is one of the largest and oldest residents of the sidebar list of WPMU sites. A recent Economist article shows that blogging is not the only way in which Arizona State University is embracing Web 2.0.
ASU is using Gmail and other Google web services. There are considerable $ savings, but “a bigger reason than money for switching from traditional software to web-based alternatives has to do with the pace and trajectory of technological change.”
The point of the article is that “consumer technologies are invading corporate computing.” It makes interesting reading, although there are a lot of nits to pick. For example, the article has the misleading title “Work-life balance.” (It’s just as well it has the other quote in this paragraph as its subtitle.)
There is room for doubt about this quote from the CEO of Facetime. “Consumer technologies such as IM usually make employees more productive.” It probably makes them more efficient, in terms of the amount that they can get done in a day. But does it make them more effective, in terms of doing the right things for the organization?
Which raises the question of whether I should be sitting here at work, blogging…
December 29th, 2006 at 11:03 pm
There is no doubt that SaaS is becoming part of the mainstream. Salesforce.com hit $500m annual revenue run-rate in the 2nd quarter of 2006. On the other end of the spectrum, as this Economist article points out, consumer-oriented software is going business class and is displacing the old work horses in large enterprises.
Ultimately it will not be about replacing horse carriages by cars (although that will happen), but about making a Model T affordable to a whole new class of buyers. I believe that the focus in SaaS will gradually move away from selling to large and medium enterprises to selling to networks of micro-firms. It will be about market expansion, not displacement. Growth, innovation and value creation will happen at this new edge.
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