The open and adaptive enterprise

In Gartner’s yearly CIO agenda survey Web 2.0 is the third topic from a technology perspective on a CIO’s agenda. After Virtualization and Cloud computing by the way which are first and second. This means that the notion that companies need to start thinking of applying Web 2.0, or in enterprise terms probably Enterprise 2.0 / Enterprise Social computing is becoming clearer. Or even better that CIO’s begin to understand that in today’s business, the use of social computing could help to differentiate from competitors.

E2.0 Business Models
In E2.0 three Business Models can be distinguished, the Open Enterprise, the Adaptive Enterprise and the Social Enterprise.
The Open Enterprise is the enterprise that takes advantages of adhering to open standards and by that enabling it to easily interact and connect to other businesses or customers.
The Adaptive Enterprise leverages modern technologies like BPM and SOA (even Service Component Architecture - SCA) to adapt to new business situations easily and benefit from it fast and without high investments.
The Social Enterprise focuses on involving existing social networks and collaborating with customers or other resources in their Eco system.

Currently both the open and adaptive enterprises are the ones that really matter, since for most companies the social enterprise is still a bridge to far.

There’s help!
So how can Oracle Enterprise 2.0 help in establishing business solutions that enable the open and / or adaptive enterprise?
First of all since Oracle Fusion Middleware (which Oracle Enterprise 2.0 is part of) is all open standards based (Java, JEE, JSR168 Portlet standard, etc.) it enables ease of integration of business services of several sources, like other vendors or cloud. This brings real integration and combining or mashup if you will, of functionality to the next level. It truly enables the open enterprise.

Secondly Oracle’s Enterprise 2.0 platform containing both the next generation of User Interfaces as well as excellent Enterprise Content Management (ECM) combines this with Business Process Management (BPM) technology Out-of-the-box. So how does that help you?
By combining E2.0 with BPM, Oracle enables the agility to change business processes virtually on the fly. This means that really if you run into the fact that a business process changes due to either an internal event like rearranging departments or an external event like a competitors new service offering, you can change the process with no or very less IT department involvement. This was also displayed yesterday during Larry Ellison’s keynote at Oracle Open World in the Oracle Fusion Applications sneak preview.

So would you like to build an open and adaptive enterprise? Giving you the ability to integrate your business processes with your eco system and fast adaptation to change? Oracle Enterprise 2.0 might very well be the way to go for you! And who knows by achieving that, becoming a social enterprise is just an easy next step!

Originally posted on the Capgemini Oracle Blog