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What enterprises need to learn from the consumer space

Have you actually used a complex ERP system with embedded workflows that include field-level security and process settings that are reflective of a large and complex manufacturing or retail organization? Perhaps if you understood these complexities you would better understand the challenges, complexities, and limitations of "mashing up" ERP content with other content in a dashboard. I'm a former software engineer and "mashing up" news content in Flipboard is child's play compared to doing this in a complex and secure business environment. Have you considered the consequences of "mashing up" ERP and Content Management systems at a Company like Merck or Pfizer, where regulatory and competitive issues make this data extremely sensitive and important? My guess is probably not. My point is that it's easy to play armchair quarterback and look at Corporate data and systems as siloed and behind the times but most folks making that observation don't understand the IT ecosystem in a large and complex organization and that lack of exposure results in reckless observations and proposals like the ones in this article.

Thanks for the comments, I understand the security concerns and there is actually a simple strategy how to deal with them: Delegate them to each individual system which being aggregated.
In this article, I am talking a client-side architecture where the client (a mobile app, desktop or a app running in a browser) fetches the events from the various systems (CRM, HR, Office 365) using the oAuth protocol and Web Services and Rest. So only the events, which the user has read access for, will actually be retrieved and then displayed by the Universal Activity Stream. If you click on a CRM event, then you will to say salesforce.com only if you have a salesforce aceess and rights to access that record.
Indeed, a server-to-server architecture would be a security nightmare.

Yaacov Cohen
Co-founder & CEO
harmon.ie Corp.