Thursday, July 17, 2008
User Mediated Trans-Enterprise-Web Mashups?
There has been an on again off again discussion about the nature of the enterprise vs. the web and how they are defined not just by their technologies, but by their frames of reference.
For my part, I think the enterprise view is defined implicitly by a planning mindset and a perceived scope of control that ends at the enterprise boundary. Whereas the web is too large for effective control so it tends to be an environment more conducive to serendipity and emergent behaviors.
The web and the enterprise also differ in obvious cultural ways. Web culture tends toward speed and "good enough" while enterprise culture is informed by enterprise concerns like mission criticality, legal frameworks such as HIPPA and Sarbox, security, transaction volumes, and the like.
Posted by Nick HaC @ 1:11 PM
