tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9135608907297595437.post7006695586799184612..comments2007-07-29T08:54:54.171-05:00John Crupihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15704561499062916623noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9135608907297595437.post-22939207917939465742007-07-29T08:54:00.000-05:002007-07-29T08:54:00.000-05:002007-07-29T08:54:00.000-05:00Good article, John.<BR/><BR/>"Today, their standard integration software is Excel."<BR/><BR/>Most Enterprise s/w vendors consider Excel to be one of their top competitors. There are many reasons why tacit workers use Excel - the fact that the same type of situational integration cannot be implemented in any other system available to them is a key factor. IT cannot possibly deliver all these situational integrations. The tacit worker knows the requirement better than anyone else, so why not enable her to create these mini-apps, right ? <BR/><BR/>On the other hand, Excel is desktop based and the tacit application developed within Excel quickly starts to fall apart when others need to collaborate/contribute content. Besides, this leads to islands of apps sitting on desktops that others are not even aware of.Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09545219584496719103noreply@blogger.com