IBM to release Mashup Center
By Michelle Savage
June 6, 2008 —
(Page 1 of 3)
Special to SD Times
IBM announced yesterday the availability of its Mashup Center, which will be hosted as a free trial on the Web, providing an avenue for non-technical business users to quickly build new applications without burdening IT, the company claims.
On schedule for mid-year delivery, Mashup Center allows users to remix information from internal and external sources such as applications, databases, multimedia, spreadsheets, unstructured text, Web sites and feeds, and other data, to gain business insight and increase productivity while complying with corporate and IT guidelines.
IBM will give customers the opportunity to experiment with Mashup Center for free through the company’s Lotus Greenhouse, without requiring any installation on their equipment. Mashup Center includes an intuitive browser-based tool to assemble new mashups, allowing non-technical users to drag and drop mashup components from personal, enterprise and Web sources to create, deploy and share customized Web applications in minutes.
It also provides tools for managing information feeds from enterprise sources. Data from many sources can be mixed, filtered and mashed together to create new information sources and output in many different forms, such as Atom, RSS or XML. This helps create a single view of disparate sets of information in a highly reusable manner.
According to IBM, feeds are an easy way to service-enable systems that do not natively provide RESTful interfaces. The Mashup Center, like much of the Web, uses RESTful approaches to unleash critical information and services, paving the way for a service-oriented architecture.
At first, mashups were mainly seen as consumer applications, but IBM hopes its investment in this technology will boost the movement of mashups into enterprises. According to Nicole Carrier, a product manager for IBM, the company’s efforts in the industry have, in a way, validated enterprise mashups. “When IBM gets into a market, people know that there’s a lot of potential there,” she said. “We’re helping mature the market simply by being a player in it—it signals that we’ve been researching and investigating this technology and we know it is promising. It’s real and relevant to enterprises versus just consumers.”
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