New threads on SaaS and Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

Lot's of talk these days about web 2.0 and software-as-a-service in the enterprise from the likes of Nick Carr, Dion Hinchcliffe, and the Gillmor Gang.

Nick Carr, Roughcuts, post "The hybrid utility architecture".

"To put it another way, larger companies are reconfiguring their traditional IT assets as centralized internal utilities and then drawing in new or improved IT capabilities from outside utility suppliers such as SaaS firms. This hybrid utility architecture, as I would term it, enables much greater efficiency in running mature enterprise applications while also allowing companies to tap into the new generation of true Internet-based software. The hybrid model also provides a way for CIOs to defuse the tension between IT Departments focused on legacy applications and employees looking for new Web 2.0 capabilities..."

Dion Hinchcliffe, "Using SaaS and Web 2.0 for business automation.

...looking at solutions for automated business processes that are based on the online, low-barrier, and highly collaborative worlds of SaaS and Web 2.0. Primarily, this is part of my exploration of using Web 2.0 in the enterprise, sometimes called Enterprise 2.0, but which we call Enterprise Web 2.0."

The Gillmore Gang has an a good podcasts, "Gartner Gang-up Part I." There is more to the podcasts than Gartner bashing.

The Gillmor Gang †Doc Searls, Dan Farber, Dana Gardner, and Steve Gillmor †gang up with Sam Whitmore on Gartner in Part I of III. Guess who's the surprise guest at 23:30 and win a free download to Part II."