This year’s Enterprise 2.0 conference was full of new product announcements and represented continued evolution in the value of Enterprise 2.0 solutions to businesses. The most striking realization for us was the increasing focus on Enterprise 2.0 solutions from players of all sizes, including companies as large as Cisco and CSC.

For instance, Cisco used the conference to announce an Enterprise 2.0 solution called Quad and shared that the net benefits of Cisco’s own internal use of Web 2.0 collaboration solutions were more than $1B in FY09. Cisco Quad leverages existing technologies such as Unified Communications and Telepresence and expands with business focused flip video and social software. To us, this seems like it is collaboration from the application down through the architecture.

Other items of interest:

• Andrew McAfee discussed some concepts from his book, Enterprise 2.0, and revealed that Gartner predicts that as of 2010 social software is an enterprise reality. This, of course, is backed up by McKinsey survey results on Enterprise 2.0.
• nGenera announced a human-centered enterprise collaboration solution, called Spaces, designed in collaboration with IDEO. Spaces includes a user configurable interface and plug-in architecture, allowing data access via interactive mini applications. This strikes us as collaboration from the middleware/web services layer out.

We’re already wondering what features Enteprise 3.0 will have. If you’d like to set up a market to test your ideas on that front, let us know.

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