Enterprise 1.0 Still Matters
It’s refreshing to read someone in the media asking businesses to stop worrying so much about Twitter and Facebook and focus instead on SAP and ERP apps. (Link to Thomas Wailgum’s column in cio.com)
It is obvious that people working in enterprise software are suffering from a serious case of “buzz envy”. Newspapers, blogs and magazines talk endlessly about the social networking revolution and how it will completely transform the world as we know it. Enterprise software, that relic from the mid-1990s, is not worthy of any attention at all.
If that’s not a case of utter lack of self-confidence, I don’t know what is. We are talking about software that keeps businesses running, right? The same software that helps Apple design, manufacture and ship its computer to some Twitter user who then posts a terse-but-witty 140-character message that lets everyone know he plans to sleep through the rest of his weekend?
I have no doubt that there are some interesting ideas in the social networking/Web 2.0 world that could make enterprise apps more useful. (Link to ZDnet).
But why not make enterprise software business simpler and more fun to use? Is it no longer a worthy goal to drive user productivity through better designed ERP and CRM apps?
Tags: Enterprise software, ERP