Susan - although I'm very excited about running nGenera on-demand, I'm even more focused on what it really means to be a "Next Generation Enterprise On-Demand", as our vision states. This means being able to have major management process for leading a global enterprise in the Global 2000 collaborate with customers, talent and partners with an on-demand model. This means being "always on" with web and mobile device access anywhere and everywhere, and using the best techniques and features of SaaS and Web 2.0 at the enterprise level.

We are moving towards a level of pervasive cloud computing and on-demand digital life that the nGen/Net Generation already experiences. The level of social networking and interaction, coupled with embedded collaboration features, will become core to any relationship based business process.

By the way, for most companies, and especially large global enterprise, we still have many years or even decades ahead of traditional on-premise IT and complex software applications. This will be most pronounced with transactional vs relationship/interaction based processes. Like the electric power grid, these will are core components and provide good, generally reliable and efficient business processing.

Yet SaaS and on-demand are the equivalent of renewable, green ways of powering the Next Generation Enterprise. This is where the investment, innovation and creative talent is focused, both across the tech industry, within enterprises and among the millions of collaborators who are customers and personnel.

Ultimately, on-demand is the where the power of mass collaboration (Wikinomics: Don Tapscott) gets "super-conducted". This means widespread, professionally networked and collaboration based capabilities for enabling speed of execution and decision making with maximum, fresh information available to everyone involved including customers. This might be where nGenera meets nGreenera in many ways.

nGenera is has hundreds of Global 2000 companies as customers that are leading the way with on-demand as a leadership model, and experiencing a "Day in the Life" of collaboration and on-demand ways of powering their Next Generation Enterprises. We know that some of this is via research and education, yet more and more is via acceptance of nGen Collaboration and our entire nGen Platform. We are barely scratching the surface, and we have much to do and never enough time....