A colleague of mine has as MSN tagline: “All people see is location independent capabilities and information. Everything else lives in the cloud”. Maybe we are there for people, for individuals, but for enterprises? Last week I personally encountered an example of typical Enterprise 1.0 behavior.
One of the blogs (Dutch) I follow pointed me to a speech by Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google on the future of technology. Schmidt points out that within a few years we will carry around more video material on our iPOD’s than we will be able to view in a lifetime. We are entering the Information Age, where information is ubiquitous, omni-present. And besides the rather obvious referrals to Moore’s law (processor speed doubles every 18 months) and Kryder’s law (hard disk capacity doubles every year), he touched on a subject that is close to my heart: the power of information.
Yesterday at the SOA Symposium in Amsterdam, I had the opportunity to share something I have been working on for the past 1.5 years, a communication model called SPOT. SPOT stands for single point of truth and refers to sharing all relevant information on products in the case of Philips.
The title of my presentation was ‘Freeing the flow of information!’, something we from content management have been trying to achieve ever since it was first formulated like this in Ann Rockley’s book ‘Managing Enterprise Content’. Anyhow, in my opinion this is what SOA is all about as well. The idea of enabling information to get to the place where it can be used.
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