Facebook as Corporate Intranet -- It's Starting to Happen

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  Darayush

  12/18/07 | Report as spam

  Perception ... and then some reality

  One look at the adoption of the search engine "god" Google in enterprises is a clear indication of how adoption of others will go. Slow ...
  
  Security, manageability and performance have been the achilles heel of all consumer based SaaS products that enter the enterprise space and concerns in these areas have been addressed to some extent. However are they all going to be addressed .. no .. never.
  
  Dont get me wrong .. the Facebook and Digg's of the world still have work to do to adhere to basic enterprise requirements in the security & manageability space.
  
  But organizations have to stop thinking all or nothing and start segmenting their intranet landscape to see where they can get the biggest bang by adopting something like a Facebook or Digg on their intranet and go for it. I believe its going to be a big differentiator going forward of how agile these organizations can be. It the same edge that organizations had when they moved to email while others were still pushing paper memos.

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  Paul Miller

  12/18/07 | Report as spam

  RE: Facebook as Corporate Intranet -- It's Starting to Happen

  A recent blog posting by IBF provides a counter view to your support for FB as an intranet....worth sharing.
  
  Serena has 900 techy staff in Silicon Valley - they are not HP
  FB allows connection and communication in a user friendly environment. That is good but try booking a meeting room, handling your expenses, manging new product development, finding key marketing documents etc - and FB is not there. Intranets are broad sets of online services.
  FB is outside your firewall and lacks the security needed for intranets. Do you want to load swathes of corporate data onto FB. See how the stock market reacts to that action?
  Some good news from FB:
  
  What FB has done is accelerate the pace for organizations to develop connection and communication tools internally that have similar facilities and style to FB. Collaborative tools are getting better and we have a new phrase being routinely expressed by staff...instead of "Why can't our search be like Google?" we now have "Why can't our intranet be like FB?"
  
  Just as Google responded by developing eventually an enterprise suite, maybe FB is now working on its own enterprise offering.

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  Paul Miller

  12/18/07 | Report as spam

  RE: Facebook as Corporate Intranet -- It's Starting to Happen

  Worth sharing a recent IBF Blog posting with a counter view on FB....
  
  Serena has 900 techy staff in Silicon Valley - they are not HP
  FB allows connection and communication in a user friendly environment. That is good but try booking a meeting room, handling your expenses, manging new product development, finding key marketing documents etc - and FB is not there. Intranets are broad sets of online services.
  FB is outside your firewall and lacks the security needed for intranets. Do you want to load swathes of corporate data onto FB. See how the stock market reacts to that action?
  Some good news from FB:
  
  What FB has done is accelerate the pace for organizations to develop connection and communication tools internally that have similar facilities and style to FB. Collaborative tools are getting better and we have a new phrase being routinely expressed by staff...instead of "Why can't our search be like Google?" we now have "Why can't our intranet be like FB?"