I’m not a big fan of predictions and soothsaying, but I still read those that are well thought.
Tony Byrne has developed his Predictions for 2007 which include:
* Google de-googles its appliance
* AJAX UI backlash
* Web managers embracing the delete key
* Falling seat prices
* Rediscovery of workflow
* Portal platforms will diversify
I agree with most of Tony’s predictions, but I think there are bigger ones at play. I know I said I don’t do these predictions but since my company is called ‘Prescient’ I feel compelled to become a hypocrite.
The year 2007 will see:
* Microsoft crank-up the marketing of Sharepoint leading to more and more customers buying without seriously examining alternative solutions
* Standalone portal products will continue to be considerably out-done by CMS solutions
* More vendors delivering a complete all-in-one solution that includes robust content management, search and portal functionality
* Continued market consolidation with many more CMS vendors being bought, merged or disappearing
* Dramatic growth in open source implementation and increased profile and functionality for bigger name solutions such as Zope, Alfresco, OpenCMS, and Plone
* More and more organizations will convert PDF and MS-Word forms to online submission forms with a mixture of in-house and outsourced solutions
* The search engine market will experience less growth than previous years as more organizations realize their current engine suffices and instead focus on content tagging, categorizing, process and policies
* Discussion and focus on Knowledge Management (KM) will continue to decline as more organizations instead narrow their attention to specific tools such as Web 2.0 applications
* More organizations will implement blogs and wikis, but they will still be part of a minority group; social bookmarking and podcasting will still remain little more than a fad on the intranet
http://intranetblog.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/1/18/2662986.html
