I have been back from vacation for over a week and still trying to catch up with the many things that I placed on-hold during that time. Finally the time slice goes to finishing the second part of the “web and Enterprise 2.0 technology or paradigm” posting.

To refresh your memory, in part 1 I discussed the two forces in the Web 2.0 space, the paradigm and the technology. As I continue to explore more on the potential use of web 2.0 in the enterprise it becomes obvious that these two should be identified as two different forces because these must be managed separately if you map these to an organization’s Enterprise Architecture.

So, when it comes to the Enterprise 2.0, the term has been defined as the adoption of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. The adoption of what? The paradigm and stylesI would say. Enterprise 2.0 is the result of the collaborative paradigm shift. It is the creation and adoption of the architecture of participation.

On the technology front, Enterprise Web 2.0 is the convergence of technology with legacy systems in the Enterprise. The goal is to create an architecture of partition.

The Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions provide a level of robustness that is not available in the plain Web 2.0 technology enables. Many of these EW2.0 tools actually build on top of web 2.0 technology approaches such as AJAX and mashups. But they add real business value to the enterprise. For example the mashup that the public is familiar with is the typical HTML mashup. Hundreds of mashups are created every day that bring information from multiple sources and “mash it up” on top of google maps or MS Virtual Earth. Although I see some of these adding some value to the enterprise, the real value is realized when we can provide a platform for users and developers to create, deploy and manage mashup services as reusable components and compose new applications by aggregating new data sources and existing mashup components. In the context of the enterprise we have Line of Business applications, Business Intelligence sources, real time feeds, ERP systems, departmental applications, document management solutions, and many other potential sources of information. Some of these Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions companies are providing the platform to manage innovation via mashup servers.

Some of the players in the EW2.0 area are Active Grid, Nexaweb, Laszlo and JackBe to mention a few.

Another example of Enterprise 2.0 enabled via Enterprise Web 2.0 technologies are convergence portals. With hundreds of options out there for enterprise messaging, voice, data, collaboration, etc… we end up with a very disparate set of tools that provide a fractured collaboration strategy. There is not a single place where you can manage and customize your communications and collaboration. Many vendors are catching on to this. ISPs are starting to provide a rich user interface to their users to allow them to organize the information they care to read. Many of these are built on webtop like products that provide a great framework for rich internet applications and even nicer user experience.

As I continue to explore many of the elements in Web 2.0 I will continue posting about how I can see these being used in the enterprise. I just signed up with my own account for technorati, del.icio.us and twitter. I will be looking at how social tagging and micro-blogging can be used in a work environment. So far what I can tell you in twitter is that it all depends on the content and integration. I am also kicking the tires on some of these APIs and their REST style services. Look for future postings on these.