As Boston sweltered, Aegeon Software’s President (I think, since his card bears no title), Gary Lang, asked if he and his colleague could sit at the lunch table where I sat in air-conditioned comfort at the buzzing Enterprise 2.0 show at the new Waterfront Westin last week. Lang seemed almost shy at first, apologizing for crowding me. Then, noticing my badge, politely confirmed I was an analyst and asked, “what would a company have to do to get you to cover our product.” I guess the answer is, sit next to me at lunch.  (Oh, and have an interesting product.)

Aegeon--Australia-based (but with a US base in Mission Viejo, CA)--and its product, Spaceo.us, a very interesting social collaboration platform, was a finalist in the Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad for new products (it lost out to Veodia, an enterprise web-broadcast application), touts its product as first tool that wraps Web 2.0 capabilities around existing enterprise applications to create an integrated, collaboration-ready suite.

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Just as the Wintel platform gave applications a standard way to call PC services for files such as creating, printing, saving, renaming, etc, Spaceo.us allows applications to access Web 2.0 tools in similar ubiquitous fashion: tagging, rating, reviews, wikis, blogs, etc.

Applications used in the enterprise and dropped onto the Spaceo.us platform can embrace collaborative tools with virtually no muss, no fuss. Whether its a SAP, JD Edwards, Siebel application one wishes to render collaborative, Spaceo.us provides the easy-to-use paradigm—spaces—by which to link people, events, products, concepts, etc. As the company motto explains “Everything is a space.” Spaceo.us renders relationships between these spatial entities and allows for multi-level security access in facilitating access and protection across applications. From what I can tell, it looks exceptionally easy to get up and running. For more info, contact Gary Lang at Aegeon; He’s a very laid-back guy. www.aegeon.com.au or www.aegeon.us.

More from my Enterprise 2.0 notes to follow….

-- Ann M. Marcus