Wordpress in the enterprise

Wordpress is a great platform. Considering all the money and time spent on enterprise software it is amazing to think that Wordpress can provide many of the same features and functionality and yet is rarely spoken as a serious option.

Below is by no means an exhaustive list of how Wordpress can be applied within the business environment. I will attempt to keep adding to this list as I go along.

General business functionality

1 – General blog platform (well kind of obvious I know)

2 – Take the wind out of Yammer’s sails and create an internal twitter clone

3 – Nice and easy ecommerce website

4 – General team/news site

5 – Video web site (e-learning etc) – Video in the enterprise is going to be a big growth area over the next couple of years and IT teams could do a great deal worse than establishing their early thoughts on a Wordpress platform.

6 – Idea site (digg functionality)

Vertical specific

1 – local news
2 – sport webpage
3 – local sports club
4 – real estate

Opportunity Database

Recession IT

The bad news for IT workers is that the recession will cost hundreds of thousands of IT jobs across many different industry sectors.  The good news is that the recession will create many opportunities for IT to fill gaps in other parts of organisations that also face budget and head count reduction.  Those opportunities could be especially felt within the cloud based systems and open source.  Cloud and open source combine lower cost barriers to entry and can be deployed in much shorter time periods.

Every CIO/CTO and small business owner should be asking how their business can exploit the technology to gain competitive advantage in such tough economic times.

Every IT professional should also be asking a similar question; how can I help a business take advantage of the technologies?