Oracle officials during a Web conference Tuesday cited collaborative benefits of Enterprise 2.0 and cast the company’s WebCenter platform as its product offering in this space.
Enterprise 2.0 from Oracle’s perspective brings the benefits of Web 2.0-style collaboration to the enterprise. Other elements include the ability to build mashup applications. While there has been confusion as to what exactly Web 2.0 really is, it has been equated to blogging, AJAX-style development, and even Google, said Sonny Singh, senior vice president of the Industries Business Unit at Oracle.
“The truth of the matter is there are probably as many definitions of Web 2.0 as there are technologies associated with it,” Singh said.
“[Web 2.0 is] really about how users can connect and work with each other through the Internet,” said Thomas Kurian, Oracle senior vice president of Server Technologies Development. “It’s fundamentally about users sharing information with each other, using Web-based social software technology to fundamentally transform how they get access to information and how they work with each other.”
But Oracle is looking at Web 2.0’s relevance and benefits in the enterprise world, which formed the basis for discussion on Enterprise 2.0 during the Web conference.
“Enterprise 2.0 is basically integrating these Web 2.0 technologies and capabilities with enterprise information systems and applications to transform how we work within the enterprise, as well as across enterprises and with people outside the enterprise,” Kurian said.
