Zogix Blog

Business Widgets - the new black

This is something happening in the nascent widgets space. After om malik started talking about widgets; everything's coming in widgets this space is seeing a revolution. Recently ZDnet blogger richard macmanus talks about the rise of web office widget which is the emergence of a new model for enterprise software where data can be displayed to end users through these light weight applications. We at Zogix feel quite pleased about renewed actvity in specifically what we call "Business Widgets" space that is in line with the vision of enterprise 2.0 that Zogix is pushing for.

We believe future of enterprise productivity will be driven by "widgets" that enables end users to improve personal productivity by accessing real time data and also incorporating new data from the same interface. This sees the rise of a two way interaction model leveraging which end users can access "inventory levels, daily sales reports, new opportunities etc" from their desktop. The data get's refreshed through the AJAX mechanism with RSS acting as the glue for data transfer between the said application and the widget.   

Stay tuned for the launch of the first enterprise widget platform (Zogix WebTop) which is aimed at enabling end users to create this two way interaction from their desktop.

ps - It's good to see SAP realising the value widgets Widgets in Enterprises can create for  enterprises, and the outlook of having SAP data available through this mechanism from the desktop seems a great opportunity to free up all that information that is stored within these systems.

A new model for portals

i came across an interesting post and a book written by Bill Ives and Kathleen Gilroy on intranet 2.0 Transforming your intranet which is spot on interms of how web 2.0 technologies will be deployed inside enterprises.

One of the biggest challenges in transforming existing intranets is the fact that large enterprises have traditional portal products currently in their infrastructure which has substantial sunk cost associated with it. So, any new portal product needs to provide substantial usage based benefits and an overall TCO that is substantially lower than the existing maintenance contracts.

I believe it's a question of time before disruptive products are developed which will drive enterprises to transform their existing monolithinc intranets.

 

Zogix Product Launch

Hello everyone,

To all Zogix users, we hope you have been enjoying the beta version of the product. Many thanks for testing the applicaton during summer and all your valuable feedback has now been incorporated. The team here has been hard at work trying to bring to you the production version of the platform with a completely new look and feel. This is my first of many posts where i will talk about the repositioning that we have done in Zogix, the new product set that we are bringing to the market, what we have got to offer for the developer community and primarily the key market gaps that we aim to address with this product.

So stay tuned to this blog for further news as we transition towards the most exciting phase in the company.

sam