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Does important innovation require a new category?
Are the developments in B.I., for example, between 1989 and 2009 insignificant? Anyone want to go back to B.I. software from 1989?
You could look at the 90’s as the era when enterprises systematically collected and organized their business data (ERP, CMS, CRM). In the past decade, accessing and analyzing that data has become easier than ever. Just the fact that employees can get business data on their BlackBerrys and iPhones is an important step forward.
And, of course, platforms like Jive have made it more practical than ever to collect knowledge and improve communications among workers themselves, complementing the infrastructure put in place in the 90’s.
In the coming years, I expect that social platforms will interact more closely and fruitfully with those TLA systems created in the 90’s, but that’s a topic for another day.
There’s some truth in your premise (Enterprise Applications are Idea Bankrupt) but your timeline seems to be way out of whack! For example, Business Intelligence has only really emerged (beyond simple data warehousing and analytics) in the last 3 years or so. ERP really took off in the late 1990’s. Content management is only getting started now, and CRM become real at the turn of the century. I’m using mainstream, large (F1000) companies as the marketplace I’m judging against.
What new groundbreaking innovations have been realized in the Enterprise market? Well, we added 2.0 to the end of everything and it magically became hip, accessible, collaborative, lightweight, and better than sliced bread!
In all honesty, in many areas it seems things have been in autopilot for sometime, and just continuing a “rinse and repeat” cycle for product innovation. On the other hand though, many innovations (I am primarily thinking in the BI space, since this is my area of focus) may seem small – but collectively they are quite large and have great impact. In this regard I agree with John’s comment “Anyone want to go back to B.I. software from 1989?” >>> NO!
Specifically for BI, there have been some amazing innovations in the area of data visualization, in memory reporting and analytics (high performance), mobile access, embedded analytics.. I think the reach of BI is just further expanding and becoming more pervasive. No longer is BI a term only known/understood by excel-junkies (or perhaps those types never really understood what BI is or could be).
Just my .02.
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