ICT Investment
Consciousness in Crisis
Dr.Thanachart Numnonda
Business Development Director
Software Practice
Sun Microsystems (Thailand)
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INNOVATION
A CRISIS

Top 10 IT Trends 2009
• Virtualization • Enterprise Mashups
• Cloud Computing • Social software and Social
• Beyond Blade Servers Networking
• Green IT • Unified Communication
• Web-Oriented Architecture • Business Intelligence
• Specialize Systems

Enterprise 2.0
World is changing !!

Types of Web 2.0
• Social Networks
• RSS
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Citizen Journalism

Chances are you've used Web 2.0
• Gmail
• Wikipedia
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google Map
• Slideshare
• OKNation Blogs
• Youtube

Web 2.0 : Business Changes
• Empowering employees
> Let them blog - internally & externally
> Let them collaborate with wikis
• Encouraging external collaboration with wikis
• Long Tail phenomenon
• Product vs. Service (MS Office vs. Google Docs; Web-
based calendars, etc.)
• Publishing

Trends : Business
• Web 2.0 will put some Web 1.0 companies out of
business
• Web as a platform?
• Appearance of next Google?
• Decreased relevance of venture capitalists?
• Boundary between customers and companies blurs

The Dot Com Vs. Web 2.0 Era
• 3 Major Differences
• Open models and
participatory – not
“reactive”
• Scale is beyond giga,
tera, peta
• New challenges/
constraints
> More capabilities
> Greater resource constraints
> How do we manage the balance?

Investment for the Trends
• Preparing for Enterprise 2.0
• Web as a platform
• Scalability is a key !!
> Virtualization
> Green IT
• Network Infrastructure
> ADSL, 3G, etc..
• Security & Identity
• Think more on OpenSource
> Front end ; Office Suites
> Back end ; Web Based Application, SOA

Web 2.0 in your Enterprise
• Web 2.0 Applications
> Web Base Calendar
> Web Base E-Mail
> Wiki
> Blog
> Facebook
> Twitter
• Invest more for Web Oriented Architecture
• Train people to prepare for it

OpenSource : ESB [SOA] (Forrester Wave)

Thank You
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