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Data Mashups
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Data Mashups Service Overview
Data Mashups is an online
service
for small enterprises and workgroups. It provides:
- personalized portals
(enterprise start pages)
- custom, composite
business
views and applications
These portals, views and
applications combine data and screens from many sources
- enterprise data (e.g.
from your Excel spreadsheets),
- web
services (e.g. Salesforce.com,
Amazon or Google
web services),
- web widgets (e.g.
Google
or Yahoo maps and gadgets),
- and other web
applications (e.g. Zoho
Writer).
Enterprises can use the
service to rapidly provide mashup applications
and a personalized mashup portal to their customers and
employees.
These applications may be imported, customized, or developed using the
online mashup builder (AppliBuilder),
and then used on your Mashup portal, or any of your other internal or
external web sites.
To setup and provide your
users with personalized portals and views knowledge of web development
is not required. This includes import and deployment from a set of
existing applications. To build or edit an application in the
builder, you
will need a basic knowledge of web application development. To
import and deliver existing applications, and offer a personalized
portal, you will not need any knowledge of web development.
For larger enterprises that prefer to have this service hosted inside
the firewall, Applibase offers an Integration Server with the same
functionality. Please contact Applibase
for more information.
Note:
The current
release is a beta version of the Data Mashups service. A number
of features are being added and evolved on a frequent basis.
Service
Benefits
- Hosted mashup applications for your enterprise
- Tap the growing pool of web services, web components, and web
applications for your business
- Provide rapid data and application integration applications for
your business
- Provide your customers and site visitors with a personalized
portal and mashup applications
- Provide your staff with a personalized portal and integrated
applications
- Deliver composite applications and dashboards for increased
business efficiency
Service
Features
- Enables custom, online mashup applications for small business
- Personalized portal for each employee, customer or site visitor
- Drag-and-drop visual mashup builder to create applications
- Application assembly from visual Javascript widgets
- Integrated, dedicated application database for each service
account holder
- Web services (SOAP) wizard for easy web service integration
Service
Usage
The Data Mashups service is targeted
at small businesses that can benefit from mashup applications that
integrate data, web services, web
widgets and other web
applications. These are typically custom applications that
are tweaked for the specific needs of the individual business.
In addition to enabling mashup
applications, the service provides a personalized portal for each
company employee, customer or site visitor. This portal makes it
easy to provide users with ready access to a relevant set of
applications and content.
Examples of mashup applications
enabled by the Data Mashups service include
- Dashboards combining internal inventory or other data with
salesforce.com sales data
- Procurement application integrated with Amazon web services
- Issue Tracker application integrated with Google search
- Project Management integrated with SMS web services
- Wiki integrated with Google spelling suggestions
- Portfolio Manager integrated with Stock Quote & Mutual Fund
web services
- Order entry integrated with address verification web service
- and many more ...
The most useful mashup applications
for each business, however, are likely to be something tailored for the
particular needs of that business.
See the Sample
Applications Page for a few
initial examples of mashup applications.
About
the DataMashups.com Service
The Data Mashups service
is offered by Applibase as a permanent site for
small enterprises and developers to create, use and offer their users
mashups applications. Application developers can sign up and use
the
service,
which will be offered in free and premium versions.
Signup for the beta version of
the
service at datamashups.com.
