Steve Papermaster: What It Takes to Enable the Next Generation
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This is from the Jan. 11th update at EnterpriseLeadership.
Steve Papermaster
Chairman and CEO of nGenera
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The first-generation Web focused on pushing out content in a one-way mode. In contrast, Web 2.0 provides a dynamic, highly interactive user experience, similar to consumer Web sites, such as amazon.com or ebay.com. Steve Papermaster, chairman and CEO of nGenera, a company that offers a platform for transforming next-generation enterprises, says, “You don’t notice the technology. Instead, you’re completely tied in with your environment. It’s like you become one with it.”
Enterprise 2.0, which is Web 2.0 technologies taken one step further, includes a portfolio of newer, mostly on-demand technologies designed for the enterprise. These technologies could include open source, on-demand software as service applications, or other types of on-demand, cloud-based applications and services. Papermaster says that the key question is how do these new technologies impact and power capabilities in the enterprise. “You need to understand the business benefit and the economic benefit before you seriously start to deploy them.”
Papermaster’s company has established itself as one of the forthcoming providers of next-generation enterprise applications to major companies. In fact, Rob Carter, CIO of FedEx, says that nGenera’s collaborative platform enables companies like FedEx to develop new business models and stay ahead of the competition.
In this podcast, Papermaster talks about some of the business models that Web 2.0 can produce for global companies that deploy it, but also the new types of business models their customers can derive from dealing with it.
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