Sunday, December 9, 2007

Sexing up enterprise software Interesting exchange over three (plus) blogs about whether enterprise software has to be ugly and unusable; be sure to follow all the links back and forth between Scoble, Carr, and Krigsman: Michael Krigsman doesn't understand enterprise software. In a post titled "Robert Scoble doesn't understand enterprise software," ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsman lays in to Scoble for having the temerity to ask why business applications can't be redesigned to be more like consumer applications - fun, friendly, even "sexy." Sniffs Krigsman: As an enterprise software blogger ... I feel qualified to comment on the issue: Scoble's question is irrelevant and meaningless. Robert Scoble misses this point: unlike consumer software, where sex appeal is... [Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog] I tend toward Carr's view, which more or less supports Scoble: enterprise software can be a pleasure to use if it's designed with users in mind instead of accountants and CIOs. Even if all you do is put a Web 2.0 client on top of the legacy back-end, you can do a lot to improve business software. IBM is doing it. My friends at SAP are doing it. You don't have to accept less. 8:20:18 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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