8D
Enterprise 2.0 with
Plex - Matching a Webbased
Collaborative
Spreadsheet
with your
Business Applications
Günter Last, Jörg Zwirner
Bodo Wippermann,
all about software GmbH
September 20, 2007
3rd Annual
Plex/2E
Worldwide
Users
Conference
all about software GmbH
> Günter Last, Bodo Wippermann, Jörg Zwirner
> All about software GmbH, Germany
> 2/E since 1990 and Plex since 1996
> info@allabout.de / www.allabout.de
> Development of custom web and desktop applications
> Main focus of our current R&D
 Up-to-date web application development
 Adjustment of popular web apps features for using it
within the enterprise
 Current trends in open source software
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Online Collaboration & Peer Production
The Power of peer production
> 08:50 a.m.

Four explosions in the
transportation system of
London
> 09:08 a.m.
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
First entry in Wikipedia
appeared

Additional information within
minutes
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Online Collaboration & Peer Production
The Power of peer production
> At the end of the day 2500 user
have produced a much more
detailed statement than any
single news company
> A real world example how peer
production can outperform bestfinanced and well organized
enterprises
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Online Collaboration & Peer Production
The Power of peer production
> Business unit leaders at P&G are
ask to source 50% of new
products ideas from outside the
company by the end of 2007
> 7 500 internal chemist now
collaborate with 90 000 other
scientist around the world
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Online Collaboration & Peer Production
> Marketocracy
 70 000 virtual stock accounts managed by volunteers
 Consistently outperforms the S&P 500
> Linux
 Peer production of an OS for 100 Mio user
 Generates billions of dollars revenue in hardware and
service sales annually
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Keywords of The New Web
> Collaboration
> Wiki
> Blog
> Tagging
> Mashup
> More …
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Keywords of The New Web
> Wiki
 A Wiki is a online content management system which can
be directly edited by anyone with access to it
 Edit with a (simple) markup language using a web
browser.
 Easy creation and sharing of knowledge about anything
> Blog
 50 Mio blogger
 Some blogs have up to 750 000 visitor per day.
 Sites like Technorati.com are compiling, categorizing
and rating blog content
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Keywords of The New Web
> Tagging
 A Tag is a word that describes a bookmark
 Tags are meta data about the content of an online object
(website, document, picture, video, ...)
 Same Tags to different online objects can create a
collection of online data
 Share your tags to support other peoples search
(del.icio.us / digg.com)
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Keywords of The New Web
> Mashup
 HTML-Link
 Widgets
– HTML snippets for small banner-like site content

My last 5 Flickr photos

Weather in my city

Polls
– Enhance popularity of web sites and web services
 API ->
– Google map to your office
– My favorite Amazon books on my website
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Current Development of the Web
Web 1.0 (since 1991)
Web 2.0
> Publish and browse
> Programmable web

Present information

Mobile computing platform

Passive user

Active user
–
No modification
–
Create
–
No interaction
–
Share
–
No communication
–
Socialize
> Examples
> Examples
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(since 2005)

Britannica Online

Wikipedia

Personal static websites

Blogs / My Space

Map Quest

Google Maps

Websites

Communities
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What’s driving the future of the Internet?
> The New Web (Web 2.0)
 Online collaboration / Peer production
 Sharing (open source)
 Being open
> The Net Gen
 First Gen grow up in a digital world
 Modus operandi is networking
 >100 Mio young people hang out at MySpace
> Globalization
 Global village
 TakingITGlobal
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Survival Guides to the New Web
WIKINOMICS
How Mass Collaboration
Changes Everything
by Don Tabscott and
Anthony D. Williams
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Enterprise 2.0
> Enterprise 2.0 is derived from the term Web 2.0
 Social software is being used to evolve and to complement
the enterprise IT systems into a more collaborative, userdriven platform
> Andrew Mc Afee of Harvard Business School
 “Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software
platforms within companies or between companies and
their partners or customers”
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Enterprise 2.0
> Steps to implement Enterprise 2.0
 Organization 2.0
 User 2.0
 Software 2.0
> Software for the first step towards Enterprise 2.0
 Wiki => Enterprise Knowledge Base
 Blog => Human Resource / New It Dev. / Customer Info
 Tagging => Metadata for related enterprise data
 Online Office => Collaborative document sharing
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Teamsheet – The Online Spreadsheet
> Enterprise software developers daily desktop
spreadsheet pain
 Interface of choice for most user
 User generated solution are often spreadsheet-based
 Encourages use before providing structure
 Steady flow of new requirements and definitions or first
solutions are offered as as a spreadsheet
> Desktop spreadsheet shortcomings
 Auditing and revision control
 Security and recovery
 Concurrency and integration
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Teamsheet – The Online Spreadsheet
> Behind your firewall
 Know what is happening with your data
 Integration into companies online access control
> Global teamwork
 Language
 Locales
> Meeting enterprise application requirements
 Single LDAP user directory + external user
 Checked update / Commit control
 Integration of existing database content
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Online Demo
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Mashup with Teamsheet
Teamsheet Mashup
> The Logistic Manager
handles all data related
to a lot of agriculture
goods
> Teamsheet is a add on to
each account to add free
form data
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Enterprise Tagging with Teamsheet
Enterprise tagging
> Tags are metadata information
linked to objects containing
structured or unstructured data
> Tags simplifies the search for
unstructured data
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Teamsheet – What’s next?
> Usability enhancements
 Sheet navigation
 Books
 Templates
> Security
> Enterprise application integration
 Database access to application data
 Mashup enhancements / Widget and API
 Row / Column / Cell value check
 Create custom formulas
> Data exchange
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