Nomadic Information Systems
Have you heard of this term before?? Nomadic Information Systems is defined when users have access to his / her personal information space from all places independent from specific devices. Some people call it mobile convergence too – similar ideas.
Interesting enough, everything is moving towards a unified view of all data / information. Previously, different devices does different stuff, different software does different stuff, different country uses different standards and the list goes on and on. However, with the birth of smart phones and with the recent and very prominent entrance of the iPhone, one could get everything in one device. GPS, emails, surf the web (which is the whole world in your hands), calendar and entertainment – all achievable as long as you have network connection and battery power.
So what has this gotta do with Enterprise 2.0 and the organisation? I can be quite sure that most companies have different systems doing different things and getting a consolidated view of all the stuff that is going on can be a nightmare, getting a streamlined business process is a nightmare and support for a large number of disparate systems is way to expensive. That’s why IT transformation projects gets approved by the board of directors and some companies spend billions of dollars on it.
Enterprise 2.0 aims to do something similar as well – for a piece of the puzzle. Enterprise 2.0 aims to organise unstructured data. Document manager, wiki, blogs, bookmarks, people, resume, project tasks, timelines and so on. As you can see previously many of the above functions have a specific system that handles it. Now, Enterprise 2.0 can do everything in one place for you (unstructured data convergence). What enterprise 2.0 vendors needs to do is to quickly move on and integrate unstructured data convergence into their toolset. Whether it may be a SAP / salesforce / oracle connector or a business mashup, unstructured data and structured data must work hand in hand.
Well, if you are a vendor and thinking – that’s impossible or its too hard to do, hang on. I know its hard to do and would take a long time. I am just putting up a wish list at the moment. =)
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