 Is your BI Software, Social and Collaborative ? -
11-21-2010
, 06:13 AM
Gartner says social computing to change the face of IT and business
Gartner has identified the impact of social media as one of four broad
trends that will change IT, and the economy, in the next 10 years.
Speaking in the keynote presentation at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in
Sydney on Monday, Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner
and global head of Research, said that the business impact of social
computing over the next decade will be enormous.
“Social computing, not Facebook, or Twitter, or LinkedIn, but the
technologies and principals behind them, will be implemented across
and between all organizations. It will unleash yet to be realized
productivity growth, it will contribute to economic growth,” said
Sondergaard.
Sondergaard went on to explain that the underlying ethos, culture and
attitudes which shape popular social computing platforms, will pervade
enterprise computing practices, and blur the boundaries between
personal and professional activities.
Of course, not all software stacks qualify. I don't think your "Point
of Sale" system or "hardware control systems" will ever need an
inbuilt discussion board, wiki or user profile page; however, for
other software layers it’s an exciting new frontier that could
radically change the energy within businesses, allow knowledge across
silos and improve commercial decisions.
Jeff Bezos (founder Amazon) has said, "We change our tools, then our
tools change us". The adoption of social computing principles into key
software layers within organisations will compel changes with how
people work together. It has too. Consider topic based discussion
boards on the net. Participants can access a wealth of experience and
know how, they can record their own insights and have those insights
tested and discussed by others. In short, everyone gets collectively
smarter and knowledge that once took years to acquire is openly
available to anyone who cares to participate.
Now take that concept internal to organisations and allow experience
and knowledge to fly free. SME knowledge need not be stored in
individuals but liberated, so that many others can share hard won
knowledge and experience. The key to achieving this is not setting up
traditional knowledge stores (like a knowledge base) separate to the
software tool; but integrating it transparently into the software
tools, so the users can socially interact while using the tool.
Enabling convenience to interact and share, will naturally build the
social layer.
Yellowfin is already ahead of the curve to harness the power of the
collaborative components inherent in social media platforms.
The latest release of our Business Intelligence (BI) software –
Yellowfin 5.1: which has been have coined, "Visualize, Socialize &
Decide" – will include social media style features to boost corporate
knowledge-sharing capabilities and facilitate faster, more accurate
decision-making. Yellowfin 5.1 will be launched on November 30 in an
exclusive series of Webinars and made available for general use from
Friday 3 December.
www.yellowfinbi.com
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