http://blogs.gartner.com/dave_mccoy/2008/09/18/what-happens-when-commercial-software-looks-like-a-video-game/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:51:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.gartner.com/dave_mccoy/2008/09/18/what-happens-when-commercial-software-looks-like-a-video-game/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Dale Skeen Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:31:21 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/dave_mccoy/2008/09/18/what-happens-when-commercial-software-looks-like-a-video-game/#comment-11 Dave, as your blog correctly points out consumer software, especially internet software, has been a great source of innovation these past few years, and from which enterprise software could benefit greatly. Imagine if you could have a panoptic view of your business in much the same way that Google Earth allows you to pan, zoom, and tilt. Or, if you could mash-up data as easily as you can mash-up RSS feeds in Yahoo Pipes, using a simple visual “piping” metaphor. Or, if you could share important business insights as easily as you can share personal insights on Facebook. Consumer software has pioneered rich new metaphors to explore your world, visualize it, and connect it – it is time that enterprise software caught up. This concept is explored in the short video Re-inventing Enterprise software (click the “M3O Innovation” video on www.vitria.com ), which chronicles the death of Enterprise Software, and its re-birth as consumer-like software. I believe soon that you will be able to (virtually) fly through your enterprise, much like a flight simulation video-game, and view your information landscape from any perspective, altitude, and dimension. Dave, as your blog correctly points out consumer software, especially internet software, has been a great source of innovation these past few years, and from which enterprise software could benefit greatly. Imagine if you could have a panoptic view of your business in much the same way that Google Earth allows you to pan, zoom, and tilt. Or, if you could mash-up data as easily as you can mash-up RSS feeds in Yahoo Pipes, using a simple visual “piping” metaphor. Or, if you could share important business insights as easily as you can share personal insights on Facebook. Consumer software has pioneered rich new metaphors to explore your world, visualize it, and connect it – it is time that enterprise software caught up. This concept is explored in the short video Re-inventing Enterprise software (click the “M3O Innovation” video on http://www.vitria.com ), which chronicles the death of Enterprise Software, and its re-birth as consumer-like software. I believe soon that you will be able to (virtually) fly through your enterprise, much like a flight simulation video-game, and view your information landscape from any perspective, altitude, and dimension.

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