Difference between revisions of "What is enterprise mash-up?"

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Enterprise mashups strives to meet business needs, therefore, will require SOA, and the SOA infrastructure necessary to guarantee loose coupling. Without that loose coupling, mashups are little more than toys from the enterprise perspective.
Enterprise mashups strives to meet business needs, therefore, will require SOA, and the SOA infrastructure necessary to guarantee loose coupling. Without that loose coupling, mashups are little more than toys from the enterprise perspective.


In mashups, applications are unleashed and integrated in new and interesting ways with other types of applications. That's also the guiding philosophy in SOA, in which applications are broken down into granularized service components that can be mixed and matched with other services as business needs demand. And, theoretically, could be assembled on the fly by the business folks, versus sending work orders to the IT department. And, theoretically, such services can come from outside the walls of the enterprise.
Within enterprises, mashups provide an easy way to visualize data that is spread across the enterprise. Technologies like Ajax have made it easy to build rich and powerful clients by bringing together data from inside and outside enterprises.

Latest revision as of 21:29, 3 May 2006

If the mashup is an enterprise mashup, it means that its creator intends it to solve a particular business problem. Then, tight coupling between provider and consumer software would be a serious concern.

Enterprise mashups strives to meet business needs, therefore, will require SOA, and the SOA infrastructure necessary to guarantee loose coupling. Without that loose coupling, mashups are little more than toys from the enterprise perspective.

Within enterprises, mashups provide an easy way to visualize data that is spread across the enterprise. Technologies like Ajax have made it easy to build rich and powerful clients by bringing together data from inside and outside enterprises.