1. What is IBM®'s objective with Mashup Hub?
IBM's goal with Mashup Hub is to provide an "ecosystem" around end-user mashup environments such as QEDWiki. Mashup Hub unlocks enterprise data by making it available as syndication feeds that are easily consumable by mashup makers and common tools. This service also provides community-based discovery and sharing of mashup assets such as Atom feeds and UI widgets.
2. What are the advantages of Mashup Hub?
Mashup assemblers could try to access enterprise data directly, but this requires programming skills and special access. Mashup Hub makes the data available to non-programmers.
3. I love Mashup Hub; now what?
If you are interested in learning more about the incubating environment that QEDWiki and Mashup Hub provide for situational applications and enterprise mashups, please see this blog for additional reference material. IBM is interested in validating our mashup-maker technology in proof-of-concept engagements with businesses who desire to evaluate QEDWiki and Mashup Hub against specific business scenarios. We are working with customers to better understand the range of services and business models that best suit our customers. At this time, we seek to validate or invalidate our technology against real business requirements. If you have an idea where situational applications or mashups would be applicable to your business needs, please contact us so we can discuss a technology incubation project.
4. What kinds of feeds does Mashup Hub support?
Mashup Hub generates Atom feeds and defines specific content formats for a number of departmental and enterprise data sources. Users can also register Atom or RSS feeds in the catalog.
5. Aren't there more enterprise data sources than you now support?
Yes, there are many more, and we are working on them. Please check back periodically.
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Date Posted: July 31, 2007
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