Spiceworks is in my opinion a long overdue solution. For those who don’t follow network administration Spiceworks is an Network discovery, Helpdesk, Asset Inventory, Knowledgebase built into a web enabled (RUBY) application. Did I mention its free! Well it shows banner ads (adware). Your going to get those anyway if your looking for helpful info to resolve an server issue on the web so who cares?

I say give me all the ads in one area of the web page all day as long as you keep sprucing up all the essential tools I use daily. OK here comes the rub. Why haven’t we seen this type of initiative in the BPMS market. What a huge opportunity. Not only the BA modeling the process but possibly down stream to the actual user (ideally this will be a BPMS solution). This would be an excellent strategy for any ISV trying to break into the SME/SMB market. I’m just saying.