Blogs, Wikis and Official Statistics: New Perspectives on the Use of Web 2.0 by Statistical Offices

This paper explains the roles that blogs, wikis and social networking play in the provision and dissemination of official statistics.Official statistics, internet, web

Web 2.0 and business: Early results on perceptions of Web 2.0 and factors influencing its adoption

Web 2.0 is quickly evolving into one of the most important technologies to drive the business world. In about five years, it made its impact by converting the web into a platform for people to assemble and organize. Today it provides powerful tools for business use. Practitioners propose that they can lead to new product and service offerings, change business processes, and achieve remarkable levels of collaboration within and outside an organization. This research examines over fourteen hundred end-user responses and presents some early results. It empirically verifies the perceptions about the benefits of Web 2.0 and finds four factors that may influence the adoption of Web 2.0. Benefits like collaboration, process innovation, and cost reduction find strong recognition. The four underlying factors that appear to influence Web 2.0 adoption are Business improvement, Workplace collaboration, Innovation, and Personal use

Role of mashups, social networking platforms and semantic in revolutionizing web integration: Key insights and enterprise implications

The article examines the emergence and role of mashups in integrating data across the web, how social networking platforms penetrated the web by adding social experiences and how they helped in web integration, while solving some of the issues of mashups. We also discuss how semantic markups evolved in parallel, trying to bring in structured data and why social networking platforms need semantics for building the social graph of users. We take the case of Facebook‟s Open Graph protocol and discuss how semantic markups enhanced web integration by simplifying the process of creating mashups, giving more personalized experiences to the users. Finally, we present an integrated view of the role of mashups, social networking platforms and semantics from the angle of web integration and the insights that enterprises can learn from them

Web Mashups in the Supply Chain

Many supply chains include multiple parties with the goods exchanged several times from the time of their production until they are sold. The liability issues that arise from goods changing hands several times along the way, as well as the exporting and importing regulations that have to be considered, add considerable complexity to the system. Furthermore weather, traffic, and market fluctuations make supply chains less reliable. Many of these issues in supply chain management could be solved or their adverse effects lessened by having information more readily shared among parties. Using Web 2.0 technologies such as a Service-Oriented Architecture, web mashups, blogs, wikis, and social networking sites could be used to facilitate sharing information between parties in a supply chain. This paper focuses on analyzing the potential use of web mashups by enterprises in the supply chain industry. Web mashups, the supply chain, and the security implications of using web mashups in the supply chain are analyzed to determine if it would be worthwhile to use web mashups in the supply chain industry

Social media: a new frontier for retailers?

During the last two decades the retailing industry is finding itself in a state of constant evolution and transformation. Globalization, mergers and acquisitions, and technological developments have drastically changed the retailing landscape. The explosive growth of the Internet has been one of the main catalysts in this process. The effects of the Internet have been mostly felt in retail sectors dealing mainly with intangibles or information products. But these are not likely to be limited to these sectors; increasingly retailers of physical products realize that the empowered, sophisticated, critical and well-informed consumer of today is essentially different to the consumer they have always known. The web, and particularly what is known as Social Media or Web 2.0, have given consumers much more control, information and power over the market process, posing retailers with a number of important dilemmas and challenges. This article explains what the new face of the Internet, widely referred to as Web 2.0 or Social Media, is, identifies its importance as a strategic marketing tool and proposes a number of alternative strategies for retailers. Implementing such strategies will allow retailers not only to survive, but also create competitive advantages and thrive in the new environment

A New Approach to Communications Management Planning Through 3D Web and Semantic Web Technologies

Communication management plans are used to determine not only who needs what information but also how that information will be collected and transmitted. Now two evolving technologies are looking to drive project planners to develop new approaches and methods for planning communications in the coming years. The first of these technologies, the Semantic Web, is becoming a driving force in how computers are making web content available to its users. The second technology, Web three-dimensional (3D) focuses on web-based content presentation by providing a rich 3D Web-centric environment for users to access information and interact with other users. This effort discusses the advent of the Semantic Web and Web 3D technologies and identifies many of the new planning considerations driving project information collection and analysis. The planning considerations for these two technologies are also discussed to aid in the framing of a new approach to project communications planning

10301 Executive Summary and Abstracts Collection -- Service Value Networks

From 25.07.2010 to 30.07.2010, the Perspectives Workshop 10301 ``Perspectives Workshop: Service Value Networks \u27\u27 was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available

Enterprise Mashups: Why did this Web 2.0 service fail?

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is increasingly popular among businesses today. As SOA enables Enterprise Mashups, rapid SOA adoption should lead to adoption of enterprise Mashups provided by IBM and other prominent providers. And yet the adoption is low enough for Yahoo and many others to shelve it. Why did it fail? This research tries to answer empirically by assessing user perception, as Web 2.0 adoption is a bottom-up phenomenon. Over six hundred responses over five years are examined using the importance-performance (IP) framework. The research concludes that users find Mashups important for business but the performance seriously lacking. Adoption may be expected only if the performance improves substantially. Users perceive Mashups as highly important for the purposes of Online Sales or Customer Service, Promotions and Marketing, and Purchasing and supplier communications. Users find Mashups important across all functional areas, especially Sales, Promotion and marketing, Production and Operations, and Procurement functions