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Loading ...Here’s a quick primer for a piece of the Enterprise 2.0 puzzle that had eluded me: most stuff in an Enterprise isn’t aggregation-ready. Just about everything - notes, docs, spreadsheets, IMs, email, PDFs, databases, files, and archives - don’t have RSS feeds. So, you’re generally shit-out-of-luck if you want turn your Enterprise 1.0 to Enterprise 2.0 and deploy cool tool like Particls, NewsGator, or Attensa. What do you need? Well, you need RSS Enablement. Network Computing has a great description of what RSS Enablement is all about.
“Most intranets are fairly Spartan affairs, at least compared with the sum total of an organization’s knowledge. There’s an untapped wealth of data contained within spreadsheets and text files, and it’s that information that service-enablement vendors aim to expose. The concept is similar to service enablement for SOA, but hugely simplified so that no development skills are necessary. Instead of converting APIs to SOAP or other Web services, these apps convert files or Web pages to RSS feeds. Kapow Technologies, Serendipity Technologies WorkLight and Denodo Technologies all showed off capabilities in this area, while IBM demonstrated its Info 2.0 product, which will combine with an enterprise mashup platform. Denodo also offers a mashup platform and a macro recorder that can retrieve information from Web sites, while Kapow displayed an automated screen-scraping function, which converts any Web site (on the Internet or an intranet) into an RSS feed.
Once RSS feeds have been enabled, enterprises need to find something to do with them. On the Internet, an RSS feed may be consumed by a Web browser, a standalone reader or a portal. The same options can work in an intranet, but the large number of feeds created from files or Web pages will quickly make this unwieldy. One option is to mash feeds up into new applications, using development platforms aimed at end users from JackBe, Denodo, IBM or BEA Systems. Another route is RSS management apps from Attensa, n Software RSSBus or NewsGator Technologies.”
Filed under: Enterprise 2.0, RSS Enablement, Web 2.0
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Thanks, Abraham, for the pointer to an excellent article that some of us marketing geeks may have missed (only because of the publication - not the content). I will likely usurp some of the content for my clients.
Cheers,
Janet
RSS Enablement for Enterprise
Here’s a quick primer for a piece of the Enterprise 2.0 puzzle that had eluded me: most stuff in an Enterprise isn’t aggregation-ready. Just about everything - notes, docs, spreadsheets, IMs, email, PDFs, databases, files, and archives - don’t have…