Corporations Want Web 2.0 in Bundled Package

Today, ZDNet UK highlighted a recent Forester Research report detailing results from surveys of 119 CIOs on Web 2.0 technologies. Main findings include:

1. CIOs prefer Web 2.0 software to be integrated offerings from large vendors such as Microsoft and IMB versus specialized, smaller vendors such as NewsGator or MindTouch


2. Over half of the respondents felt blogs and social networks were unnecessary components within their Web 2.0 software packages, but expressed interest in wikis, tagging and RSS


3. CIOs did feel Web 2.0 technology improved business efficiencies