So, I ran a little User Voice test at the bottom of a blog post a few weeks back asking you to contribute ideas and to vote on applications that would make sense if packaged up with Second Life Enterprise. It was a fun little exercise although not exactly a massive wave of responses.
A few probable reasons: having to leave this blog for another site is too painful. You’re working on a killer app for SLE and don’t want to let us in on the secret. Or, most probably of all – who cares anyways. 
But I am interested in knowing what makes sense for virtual worlds in enterprise: if you had to sell virtual worlds to your boss how would you sell them? And what applications or tools would you need other than being able to log in an avatar and make stuff?
So if you feel like adding to the list, hop on by. So far data visualization and Yammer integration came out on top.
I’m easy: the ability to mute microphones of others as have yet to be in a large meeting which was not interrupted at least once by mic bleeding. Add to this speaker phone capability so SL can be used properly in RL/SL meetings and conference calls.
Always glad to invest ideas that result in a positive ROI… Less fond of the “Animal Farm” / “Proletariat” model…
Um, OK…I have no idea what that means Valiant.
HH – 100 votes. I like how Protosphere handles it – plus the ‘pop up’ window when a speaker is active.
Your client should make an alt and go shopping on the Mainland and ask the Lindens to open up the SLE Market store instead of keeping everything in a bounding box.
Well, Dusan. You just have to cut and paste the scripts you already have into the SLE box. Even easier than copybot.
Well, I’m an educator but I suspect some progress (or at least timeline) on the LLmedia plugin would be appreciated by business. Better integration (and reliability) for voice would be good too.
What a terrific way for the Lab to surreptitiously conduct a little market research. Although I’m not sure of the value our answers would bring. Since Dusan has asked this question twice now, does this still mean the Lab hasn’t quite figured out its product positioning for SLE or resolved its lack of communication to customers regarding SLE’s value proposition? I wonder what sort of market research the Lab has conducted with its own enterprise customer base to gauge such interest or required feature sets.
I still can’t figure out why M Linden (the CEO), who comes from a “digital communications agency”, has been receiving criticism lately for the company’s lack of communication policies. Maybe the company needed someone from an “analog communications agency”, where there’s less separation between the communicator and the listeners.
Granted, the detailed SLE roadmap is a protected piece of IP, and the company’s strategy will only be revealed over time to those of us in the public blogosphere. I still firmly believe that asking for a list of application tie-ins, and touting these as feature sets (down the road), is only a losing battle against competitive alternatives; the Lab is playing catch up currently against its competition. Product niche, customer messaging, and a large enough buyer market within this niche are going to be key to SLE’s success. If application tie-ins will get them there, then I will gladly accept the “I told you so” finger pointed at me. I don’t see SLE solving any business problem where it currently stands alone as a solution however.
Perhaps my suggestion then for “what’s needed”, is a bit of good luck for the SLE product team, and a visionary leader who sees tomorrow’s enterprise problem before the rest of us, and positions SLE as a leader in that vertical market.
Ability to let IAX2 or SIP users get on voice in-world.
html on a prim. Hopefully, MS office docs on prims later, but this requires licensing from Microsoft so I’m not terribly hopeful. But html will get us most of what is needed – truly collaborative tools.