Next Generation Internet in the Enterprise?

How will enterprises deliver next generation Internet applications? That's the question explored by this white paper Optaros published in April of 2007.

Our own research and analysis, described in detail in the white paper (registration required) led us to conclude:

• More than 60 percent of enterprises are aware of customer expectations for two-way Internet interactions.
• Only 19 percent give their current online applications high marks for the ability to offer two- way interactions.
  
• More than 64 percent of companies that have added NGI functionality are achieving positive results.
  
• Custom development is being chosen by a ratio of 4:1 over off-the-shelf software to deliver NGI functionality.
• Assembling solutions from components is an effective approach to deliver NGI applications.
  

Really leveraging the technologies and techniques of the current generation of web innovation will require CIOs and their teams to look beyond packaged, integrated suites, to assemble best-of-breed applications and components into custom solutions which exactly fit their organizational needs.