Friday, October 7, 2011

It’s Time to Think Like Facebook and Bring Social Media into the Enterprise

By Curt Finch, October, 7, 2011, CIO
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with David Andersson, Director at IFS Labs, which is a company that develops, supplies, and implements IFS Applications, a component-based extended enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite built on service oriented architecture (SOA) technology. I wanted to know from Andersson how enterprise software is being affected by the consumerization of IT. 
Some experts say that social media applications are “invading” enterprise software design.  Andersson reminded me that social media is all about sharing information:  “Social media focuses on collaboration and the ability to share data effectively among a project team.” ....... Read more.