Enterprise Mashup Systems as Platform for Situational Applications - Benefits and Challenges in the Business Domain

Currently, several Enterprise 2.0 platforms are beginning to emerge. This paper introduces Enterprise Mashup technology as a means to improve IT alignment of individual work processes and changing business needs. Enterprise Mashups enable users to create customized applications to easily find and transform business information and functionalities, as well as collaboratively share pre-built Mashup applications. Therefore, the concept of Enterprise Mashups integrates Web 2.0 technologies and principles with well-established paradigms such as Enterprise Information Integration, Business Intelligence, and Business Process Management. Involved organizational key drivers, technical challenges and inhibitors are discussed to assess the potential business value and explain the emerging expansion of Mashup platforms in companies

The Acceleration of SOA Adoption in Singapore: Challenges and Issues

This paper addresses real challenges and ensuing issues facing the Singapore government in their endeavour to enhance global economic competitiveness through the adoption of innovative technologies development and usage; in this case, the acceleration of SOA. Key stakeholders have spearheaded a strategic and systematic project (called SOA1) to ensure that SOA is inculcated into the mainstream of businesses and industries. Outcomes, insights and lessons learned are presented along with a glimpse of the next phase of the SOA1 project (called Enterprise 2.0). IT Management complexities not accounted for in SOA1 and Enterprise 2.0 are examined with a call for empirical academic research in the areas of people and organisational behaviour within the context of SOA adoption and implementation

Enterprise 2.0 Research: Meeting the Challenges of Practice

Through an in-depth survey of scholarly research studies and practitioner reports this study examines the extent to which current scholarly research addresses the challenges and impacts of Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) being faced by organisations. Our findings reveal that whilst there is a growing body of work about E2.0, the first stream of research has focused primarily on providing an overview of E2.0 and its adoption and use. Our analysis of the practitioner literature reveals a different set of imperatives clustered around information management and compliance issues, the identification and measurement of benefits and the integration of social software into organisational business processes and business software. To address this misalignment of research imperatives we propose a second stream of research that moves attention from the initiation and exploration of E2.0 to its institutionalisation and integration