Do Web 2.0 collaboration tools make it harder for IT to wrangle corporateinformation, or easier?
(Information Week Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Web 2.0 collaboration tools are irresistible to end users: They’re easy to set up and use and can be accessed from anywhere. Employees can upload or create documents, spreadsheets, wikis, and blogs, then invite co-workers and partners to access, edit, and download content. These apps often include productivity enhancers such as search and tagging. And not surprisingly, vendors are encouraging the trend-Microsoft and IBM have added wikis and blogging capabilities to enterprise apps including SharePoint and Lotus Quickr, while Google and upstarts like Socialtext, PBwiki, and Jive Software are luring corporate users with freebie accounts and dead-simple deployment. Departments and business units can provision users in minutes, pay with discretionary funds-and never make a single call to IT.
