Enterprise mashups – the convergence of Web 2.0 mashups and
service-oriented architecture (SOA) – can create a world of
opportunities for enterprises to come up with internal and customer-facing
self-service, composite and “situational” applications. These
applications can be created just-in-time by empowered enterprise business
users and by simply combining SOA-enabled information sources and services or
SOBAs (service-oriented business application) on the intranet and Internet.
To make this convergence even deeper, we need to borrow one important lesson
from SOA and Web 2.0 – declarative or non-programming ways to create
personalized, shareable mashups. An extended SOA mediation framework with a
rich user interface can provide the platform required for enterprise mashups
to be a reality. In this article we will show how a service medi... (more)
The way business applications are evolving, enterprises are learning to
accept and embrace the notion of applications that they neither control nor
host. Now enterprises are leveraging applications that run a business through
the Internet platform. As these applications become core to many businesses,
so does the need to incorporate these applications into the
enterprise’s existing infrastructure and make them work together. Every
on-demand application should function like any other enterprise application,
both hosting and sharing critical business information as well as se... (more)