Hi all,

In advance of our free half-day conference on Enterprise Web 2.0 on the afternoon of Monday 13th June 2011 at the Microsoft offices in London, I wanted to open up the discussion to anyone who is interested, whether you can attend the event or not...

• First of all, Enterprise 2.0 tools and technologies are a broad church, touching a lot of areas of the business - ERP, CRM, business intelligence, internal workflow, internal and stakeholder comms, HR on-boarding and talent management... the list goes on! Feel free to add other business areas in the comments, with your views and any experiences (good or bad) you've had with them.

• From the point of view of the finance function - do you think the wave of collaborative and cloud-based technologies being discussed under the banner of Enterprise 2.0 can really make a difference; are they pioneering in a value and cost-based sense?

• In turn, CIMA people work in many areas of business and public accounting, and in public sector and non-profit bodies. Are these tools more applicable to some organisations than others?

• Should we even be including cloud accounting and corporate social media in the same event? Is the whole "Enterprise 2.0" concept too broad in scope?

Any views or questions posted here can be fed by us (on your behalf) into the Q&A sections of the relevant keynotes and panel discussion on the day. With speakers from BT, Microsoft, BAE Systems, Huddle, Broadsight and more taking part, it's a key opportunity to get insight from some of the most advanced practitioners globally in the field.

You can also comment on the blogs the speakers Dennis Howlett, Charles Ravenhill and Alan Patrick have written in advance of the day.

Details of the free afternoon event (which includes lunch) are here:
http://www.cimaglobal.com/enterpriseweb

I look forward to getting your comments and questions before the event on June 13th.

Thanks,
Deirdre
(CIMAsphere community manager)