Whither RSS in the Enterprise

Posted by charles at March 29, 2006

Marshall Kirkpatrick over at the Social Software Blog (who I hear might be making a guest appearance on this blog soon) recently pointed us to the Moonwatcher Blog, which is the personal blog of Charlie Wood, who also formed an interesting company called Spanning Partners. Both sites are dedicated to covering the emergence of RSS in the Enterprise.

Its true, RSS as a technology is starting to creep into even big enterprise company’s plans. So how does RSS in the Enterprise relate to Management by Feeds?

RSS is a technology. It’s a way of publishing information. To use RSS, you need tools like Mailroom, Basecamp, and Spanning Salesforce to expose the data inside your company through RSS. Management by Feeds is how you use those feeds to make better decisions in less time.

Spanning Partners looks to be doing some important work in helping companies who have already spent the money to deploy big enterprise apps make information from those apps available through RSS. If you use Salesforce, in particular, its worth a look.

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    Gaurav Rekhi – April 03, 2006 @ 12:00 PM
    Hi Charles An interesting dimension of RSS in the enterprise would be to look at where RSS is in the Gartner Hype Cycle. http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp ------------------------- What is a Hype Cycle? A Hype Cycle is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies. Since 1995, Gartner has used Hype Cycles to characterize the over-enthusiasm or "hype" and subsequent disappointment that typically happens with the introduction of new technologies for an introduction to the Hype Cycle concepts). Hype Cycles also show how and when technologies move beyond the hype, offer practical benefits and become widely accepted. What are the 5 phases of a Hype Cycle? # Technology Trigger # "Peak of Inflated Expectations" # "Trough of Disillusionment" # "Slope of Enlightenment" # "Plateau of Productivity" --------------------- Gartner suggests RSS is already past its peak of inflated expectations (which is real good news) and is about to reach the trough of disillusionment (where widespread adoption causes initial hiccups) but also the plateau of productivity will be reached very soon - in less than 2 years. (I wish I could post the chart here but the school lecture notes soft copy is not posted on our intranet yet.) This definitely suggests that corporate establishments would be looking at RSS in sincerity. Comments anyone?
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