An IBM Mashup for the non-techies
A IBM has a mashup platform called er well if you guessed that it is called the IBM Mashup Starter Kit … well then you are a hundred and one percent correct. But what is the purpose of the IBM Mashup Starter Kit? Well in the words of Big Blue the mashup platform would allow business end users or non techies “to assemble their own Web 2.0 mashup applications, solving business problems without aid from information technology (IT) specialists [Source].”
More details about the IBM Mashup Starter Kit:
The IBM Mashup Starter Kit contains two key technologies. The IBM Mashup Hub is a mashup server that stores information feeds such as in the RSS, ATOM or XML formats to enable reuse and collaboration. Mashup Hub can also merge, transform, filter, annotate or publish information in new formats. From there, the newly-enhanced QEDWiki serves as the user interface and allows non-IT users to ‘mash’ information from any data source to create a single view of disparate sets of information in minutes. Together, this package of software collects and processes information that ultimately provides data for next generation applications.[Source]
This is all fine and good but what does this all mean? Should we be doing the dance of joy at this announcement from Big Blue?
Probably the most important aspect of this IBM product or products is that in a business or project this allows non IT experts to have a simpler and fuss free way of sharing and consuming information with everyone or to a limited few. And more importantly without high IT costs.
The IBM Mashup Starter Kit with the enhanced version of QEDWiki is available for download now the online IBM community for early adopters alphaWorks.
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Nathan Rawlins
Oct 11, 2007 at 9:36 am
IBM’s initiative is reminiscent of the portal hype of nearly 10 years ago. Aggregating information and presenting it on the screen is nice, but why stop there? Business users should be able to create real applications—applications that automate business processes and actually exchange information between different systems. To be successful, the tools for creating these Business Mashups need to be as simple as consumer apps (think: iTunes or Microsoft Office).
Nathan Rawlins
Serena Software
http://www.serena.com/mashups
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