MEASURING WEB 2.0 EFFICIENCY

Any potential investment assumes, from the investor’s point of view, answering alegitimate question: What is the value returned by the current investment? Investing in the newsemantic technologies in the area of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are no exception to this rule. Theresearch at hand combines a review of the relevant literature with action research, in order toidentify coherent and relevant methods for the measurement of the benefits arising from aninvestment in the new wave of knowledge management and organizational memory buildingtechnologies. The paper is based on the classic ROI computation, attempting to build a newcomputation model, well suited to measure the success of an implementation of the informationalmemory. The valuation model (enforced and explained by means of a case study) may be alsoregarded as a measurement model for the costs and benefits of building organizational memory atthe economic entity level.Organizational knowledge, ROI, computation model, Web 2.0, Semantic Web

SOFTWARE: FROM PRODUCT TO SERVICE THE EVOLUTION OF A MODEL

Among the consequences of the Enterprise 2.0 family technologies’ growingpopularity, we can observe the rise of a set of new business models for the use and employment ofsoftware applications, some of them also applicable for infrastructure components. The mostpopular of these models is by far Software as a Service (also called SaaS). SaaS is a softwaredistribution model assuming the software applications are hosted and maintained by the vendor orthe distributor, the user access being granted exclusively by means of the Internet. The paper athand is a literature review and also an action research, meant to provide an objective and unbiasedcomparison of the two major software distribution models, and also to identify the strengths, theweaknesses and the favorite areas of applicability for each model. The paper is a part of a largerresearch performed by the author in the field of Enterprise 2.0 technologies.Organizational knowledge, Enterprise 2.0, Software as a Service, Web 2.0, Semantic Web

THE ROLE OF THE SEMANTIC WEB IN STRUCTURING ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE

The present paper is a component of an exploratory research project focused on discovering new ways to build, organize and consolidate organizational memory for an economic entity by means of the new a€sSemantic Weba€t technologies and also encloses someorganizational memory, organizational knowledge, semantic web, knowledge management

ONTOLOGIES REPRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT, AS A SEMANTIC TOOL FOR ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY CONSOLIDATION

The present paper is a component of an exploratory research project focused on discovering new ways to build, organize and consolidate organizational memory for an economic entity by means of the new a€sSemantic Weba€t technologies and also encloses someorganizational memory, unified modeling language, semantic web, ontologies

Enterprise 2.0 – Is The Market Ready?

Enterprise 2.0 family technologies have growing popularity, the cloud computing market is growing rapidly and, as a consequence, companies of all sizes start to evaluate the potential fit. The use of “Software as a Service”, “Platform as a Service” and “Infrastructure as a Service” has been evolving during the past years and has become increasingly popular. As its computing viability and benefits are legitimized, the adoption rate is rapidly increasing. The most popular business model in the abovementioned family is by far “Software as a Service” (also called SaaS), which is a software distribution model assuming the software applications are hosted and maintained by the vendor or the distributor, and user access is granted exclusively by means of the Internet. Based on both literature review and action research, the paper at hand is a synthesis for the results of an empirical study performed during the last two years among Romanian and foreign companies, in order to outline and provide an objective and unbiased answer to the question: “Is the market ready for these technologies or did they come too soon?”. The paper is a part of a larger research performed by the author in the field of Enterprise 2.0 technologies.Enterprise 2.0, Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Empirical study

ONTOLOGIES REPRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT, AS A SEMANTIC TOOL FOR ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY CONSOLIDATION

The present paper is a component of an exploratory research project focused on discovering new ways to build, organize and consolidate organizational memory for an economic entity by means of the new a€śSemantic Weba€ť technologies and also encloses som

THE ROLE OF THE SEMANTIC WEB IN STRUCTURING ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE

The present paper is a component of an exploratory research project focused on discovering new ways to build, organize and consolidate organizational memory for an economic entity by means of the new a€śSemantic Weba€ť technologies and also encloses som