Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Catch a wave

Collaboration is essential in today's lean business model. Every business collaborates its use of data throughout. The business relationship with its data makes or breaks the business. Data should be viewed as an entity with which business processes can talk to, talk about, and recognize the life it takes on. You cannot have a business without data.

So where am I going with this? Google announced a new product called Wave. This product looks to be a collaboration of the services Gmail and Docs. Other services Google may combine with Wave are instant messaging and real time searching. Wave will have a mobile component that will further blurr the line between computer device and mobile device.

The future is getting smaller. Google seems to realize more than other vendors that staying ahead of the curve is essential to survival. Always innovating, always looking to the future and able to quantify what that future will be, at least in the short term, is arguably Google's strength. Development in any organization should keep Google visions in front of their own.... until they surpass Google that is :)