Short clip: Autodesk works Web 2.0

October 23, 2007, 11:46am PDT | Length: 00:01:32
Billy Hinners, CIO of Autodesk talks about Web 2.0 tools that are fostering innovation in the workplace such as wikis, blogs and Buzzsaw, the company's collaborative drawing and drafting software.

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Short clip: Autodesk works Web 2.0

>> What are some of the tools and technologies that you're using to foster an innovative workspace as well as to speed up product delivery?

>> I think one of the big challenges that we have, like I said, is this globalization and how we're working with an increasingly distributed workforce. And so that brings a lot of complications in terms of the need to coordinate, the need to communicate and that's a big challenge that we face all the time. So we're looking at a different solutions for that. For our customers, we have Buzz Saw that was an innovation the company drove a few years ago to help that kind of collaboration between people.

>> Working simultaneously on a drawing or drafting or architectural drawing?

>> That's right. And so, you know, we're looking at similar technologies internally to get people to work.

>> Are you mostly an email culture? Or are you using Wiki's or blogs or any of these Web 2.0 style technologies?

>> We're heavily an email culture still. I see that gradually changing. Certainly in IT. We use Wiki's a lot. We use them for understanding on how we're doing on bill wise and things like that, communicating across, again, we have people globally involved in our Go Live's, project Go Live's, and that's how they update everybody else on the team as to what the status is of their portion of the Go Live. And so, I see the engineering teams rolling these out, too. Blogs, we mostly use blogs to communicate with our customers about what's happening internally.

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