Editor's note: Guest author Aaron Levie is the founder and CEO of Box.net In the enterprise, simplicity simply doesn't sell. Complexity, on the other hand, justifies costly software licenses and a swat team of consultants and systems integrators. It explains why updates are available every three years instead of being pushed weekly. And it even serves as an easy - but ultimately blameless - scapegoat for failed deployments and lagging user adoption. After all, the problems faced by today's enterprises are incredibly challenging, and complex problems require equally complex solutions, right? Wrong. This mindset needs to change - in fact, in order to survive, enterprise software must become simpler. Consumers are bringing new technology and expectations into the workplace where, more often than not, they're forced to work with and around legacy platforms that disable rather than enable productivity. Simplicity will become the most important factor in business technology's success, and to get there it can no longer be a dirty word in the enterprise. But it's going to require some serious effort on the part of vendors and buyers alike.
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