In this bumper edition of E20portal.com's Enterprise 2.0 news summary we have various whitepapers from Forrester, Economist Intelligence Unit, Radicati Group, Rubicon's research, Accenture and Gartner. You will also find news reports on the latest events and a new vendor launch.

Industry Reports

Forrester Whitepaper: Vendor: Prepare For Falling Prices For Enterprise Web 2.0 Collaboration And Productivity Apps

Forrester forecasts a significant price fall in Enterprise 2.0 software coupled with growing demand. Due to increased competition, commoditization, and bundling, prices are expected to fall by as much as half. Several bloggers have comments on this report including the Fastfoward blog and Bill Ives.

The Economist Intelligence Unit Whitepaper: The Digital Company 2013: The Freedom to Collaborate

This free report identifies seven key changes to how we currently work. Noteworthy predictions include Social networks will become common in the workplace, digital tools will democratise access to information and IT will need to loosen the reins. The AppGap blog has commented on the report.

Radicati Group Whitepaper: Enterprise 2.0 Software Market, 2008 - 2012

Radicati has joined in with the other industry analysts to forecast the overall Enterprise 2.0 Software market growth. E20portal.com previously reported on How Big is the Enterprise 2.0 pie. Radicati expect this market to reach $842 million by 2012

Rubicon Consulting Whitepaper: Online Communities and Their Impact on Business

In this report Rubicon confirms that 80% to 90% of online communities user-generated content is generated by less 10% of users. Interestingly the report highlights that online reviews drive far more purchase decisions than newspaper articles, reviews by websites, or store advice. ReadWrietWeb has a detailed review of the report.
 

Gartner Whitepaper: Magic Quadrant for Social Software 2008

This year’s edition of Gartner's report demonstrates the highly competitive nature of this market. Interestingly Gartner still have no vendor’s in the category of “Leaders” but do have IBM / Microsoft as the only “Challengers”.

Accenture Whitepaper: Millennials Will Route Around IT Departments

Accenture's survey of North American millennial students and employees highlights a preference for New Social Computing Channels over Enterprise technology. The report shows that many employees are simply bypassing corporate IT departments to use unsupported and unsanctioned technology. Further reading from Social Computing Magazine and ReadWriteWeb.

Vendor News

Knowledge Plaza launch

The company 'Whatever' launched Knowledge Plaza, a comprehensive Enterprise 2.0 Web-based platform. The software offers enterprise search, social bookmarking, knowledge management, information brokerage and expert identification. Bill Ives covered the launch on AppGap.

Event Report

Defrag 2008

This year's Defrag went successfully with a recurring theme of flow app. A review of the event is available on the Defrag Blog. Hutch Carpenter has also provided notes for several of the sessions.

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