Comments for Blog Innowix http://innowix.com/blog Applying innovation and technology to solve business problems Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:06:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 Comment on Gadgets and Widgets in the Corporate World by Spidey http://innowix.com/blog/?p=10#comment-65 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:39:41 +0000 http://innowix.com/blog/?p=10#comment-65 As always, Hiren @ his best...exhaustive & detailed analysis :-) Here is my take on this topic - albeit a few different angles, i think. I do believe Gadgets & Widgets are the transition pipe from Web Portals to Desktop Portal. We are headed towards a "Browser is only for the Generic Consumer" stage - whereas in Enterprises, Content & Apps shall be distributed through "indispensable" channels which would include E-mail, Desktop/Laptop & soon - Mobile Devices. Within the Enterprise, I'm betting my dollar on Microsoft getting it right first (albeit in a IE-inclusive manner somehow - which challenges my above theory!)....Google has got the Framework right(yes, i tried a simple RSS Gadget recently) & They have gone way past others in the Mashup World with Gadgets. But to get it across in the "Focused Applications on Desktop & ---> Advertising per User Time etc" is going to be a challenge even in Consumer World (because of the Gadget Real-Estate similar to the challenges faced by Mobile Advertising arena)...but hey - it's Google, hard to bet against! Within the Enterprise, Microsoft has got it right at the Web Portal Level already - MOSS has "working" connectors to Content Repositories (& File Structures) like Documentum & similarly apps through WSRP. Just need to extend that with a dose of SilverLite onto the Vista Runtime & completely alter the browsing experience & Here comes Next-Gen Vista :-) ok..that's my rambling for today. TC. As always, Hiren @ his best…exhaustive & detailed analysis :-)

Here is my take on this topic - albeit a few different angles, i think.

I do believe Gadgets & Widgets are the transition pipe from Web Portals to Desktop Portal. We are headed towards a “Browser is only for the Generic Consumer” stage - whereas in Enterprises, Content & Apps shall be distributed through “indispensable” channels which would include E-mail, Desktop/Laptop & soon - Mobile Devices.

Within the Enterprise, I’m betting my dollar on Microsoft getting it right first (albeit in a IE-inclusive manner somehow - which challenges my above theory!)….Google has got the Framework right(yes, i tried a simple RSS Gadget recently) & They have gone way past others in the Mashup World with Gadgets. But to get it across in the “Focused Applications on Desktop & —> Advertising per User Time etc” is going to be a challenge even in Consumer World (because of the Gadget Real-Estate similar to the challenges faced by Mobile Advertising arena)…but hey - it’s Google, hard to bet against!

Within the Enterprise, Microsoft has got it right at the Web Portal Level already - MOSS has “working” connectors to Content Repositories (& File Structures) like Documentum & similarly apps through WSRP. Just need to extend that with a dose of SilverLite onto the Vista Runtime & completely alter the browsing experience & Here comes Next-Gen Vista :-)

ok..that’s my rambling for today. TC.

]]> Comment on My experiments, experience (and frustration!) with Information Analysis for Automobile Purchase in Web 2.0 world by Praveen Cherukuri http://innowix.com/blog/?p=9#comment-10 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:38:04 +0000 http://innowix.com/blog/?p=9#comment-10 Hiren, I go thru similar frustation when comparing products that are not necessarily easily comparable. Particularly when comparing motherboards - lots of aspects need to be compared and I have yet to see some one do it right on the web. I am constantly surprised at how companies like ASUS leave it all to the customer to figure it out. Sometimes its hard to differentiate even products within their product line itself. And I am not even talking about comparing between vendors. Ok, I'll stop whining now. ;-) In some business domains the information is just not there or needs to be assimilated from multiple sources (good candidate for Web 2.0 type aggregation). In some others, the information is there but the GUI isn't there to slice-and-dice the data. In these cases, I just feel like "give me BI front-end tool and I will be all set". I understand this isn't for all the people out there. But that is probably what you need in most cases - a fancy GUI that can answer adhoc questions like this. -Praveen Hiren,

I go thru similar frustation when comparing products that are not necessarily easily comparable. Particularly when comparing motherboards - lots of aspects need to be compared and I have yet to see some one do it right on the web. I am constantly surprised at how companies like ASUS leave it all to the customer to figure it out. Sometimes its hard to differentiate even products within their product line itself. And I am not even talking about comparing between vendors. Ok, I’ll stop whining now. ;-)

In some business domains the information is just not there or needs to be assimilated from multiple sources (good candidate for Web 2.0 type aggregation). In some others, the information is there but the GUI isn’t there to slice-and-dice the data. In these cases, I just feel like “give me BI front-end tool and I will be all set”. I understand this isn’t for all the people out there. But that is probably what you need in most cases - a fancy GUI that can answer adhoc questions like this.

-Praveen

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