I am pleased to see more conversation on creating the integrated Enterprise 2.0 environment. In this case it occurs in a blog post under that name by Ben Gardener on Dif-fer-en-ti-ate. Ben is an internal consultant at a large blue chip Pharmaceutical company based in the UK. His current role involves facilitating clients with re-engineering their work processes.
Ben lays out an architecture to get the social side of enterprise data acting together. There are three components in his scheme.
1. Single User ID – so users have a single identity across all the tools. As Ben writes, Enterprise 2.0 has a big advantage over Web 2.0 as it can leverage this via LDAP or Active Directory.
2. RSS Enterprise Server – an RSS enterprise server could provide a tacit method of aggregating all content from social computing applications with an RSS feed.
3. Tagging Service - this would provide a way to aggregate all keywords/tagging and annotations a user assigns to the content they interact with along with their microblogging.
Ben writes that this approach is achievable. I would agree and it is something we are looking into as it would be very beneficial to the realization of the rich connections possible with enterprise 2.0. I will be writing more on this in the coming weeks. See the post Providing an Integrated Tagging Feature Set for the conversation so far.
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