I am pleased to announce my new role working with
the AppFusions team on the re-launch of their blog, Connecting the Enterprise --technologies and people daily. It is an
“ongoing resource and viewpoint from AppFusions on the value of connecting
business and engineering systems.”
AppFusions provides application integration connectors for a
variety of vendors such as Atlassian, IBM, Jive, iRise, Box, GoogleDocs,
Dropbox, UserVoice, Alfresco, and more in the hopper. They also closely collaborate with their partner Contegix for turnkey hosted and integrated deployments for their customers. AppFusions' connectors can play a major role in
realizing the great cross-system efficiencies and potential when bringing
engineering and business systems together (Enterprise 2.0).
Off-the-shelf integration solutions can enable
serious breakthroughs in establishing essential Enterprise application connections
quickly, and efficiently.
I am excited to be connected to AppFusions
as I have great faith in both their mission and the industry potential to finally
capture the opportunity of Enterprise 2.0.
They believe, and I agree, that business information and process
management should be handled by a collection of systems that make up an integrated
whole.
To make this happen, connectivity is the
key driver. It is the glue that makes real work happen. It brings the benefits
of social systems to work processes, as I have covered a good bit on this blog
(for example, Putting Social to Work, Integrating the Interactions with the Transactions, and Giving Social
Media a Good Job).
Establishing modular system architectures
in the Enterprise – from the same vendor or many vendors – from engineering to
QA to marketing and the executive office – integrated systems provide greater
flexibility, while also allowing an organization to pick and choose the best-of-breed
systems for its purposes.
There are reasons for purpose-built
systems, and a collection of many is stronger than a single-rigid system,
especially if you can connect the strengths (data and workflows) of the
different systems with common use case connectors vs. getting on an endless
customization path.
AppFusions integration
connectors bring together engineering and business systems.
They bring together workflows, data files, and information between Enterprise
systems for your collective purpose-built Enterprise 2.0 corporate solution of
many systems.
They allow companies to quickly and cost-effectively create the needed
connectivity without going through the old-world pain of massive, costly, and
time-consuming integration efforts.
The AppFusions blog will become the vehicle
to tell this story and provide use cases demonstrating the essential nature of
connectors. I will be doing interviews with many of the AppFusions partners, as well as providing industry commentary. Ellen Feaheny and others on the AppFusiosn team will also be providing a variety of posts. I invite you to check it out and look forward to my ongoing
participation. Here is my post today, Doing Well by Doing Good, Humanizing the Enterprise. Here are some of the posts that I have provided so far:
The Business Value
of Application Connectors
Summary of 2012
Boston Enterprise 2.0
Atlassian Makes
Significant Moves into the Enterprise Market
Jive’s Platform
Enables Comprehensive Enterprise Integration
Contegix Provides
Total Cloud Care with Direct Managed Hosting
UserVoice Enables
Customer Engagement through Online Support and Feedback
AppFusions’
Integrations of iRise® Visualization with Atlassian JIRA, Confluence
