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Why You Need Enterprise Mashups

The term "mashup" originated with musicians who mixed a combination of instrumental tracks and voices into a new song. Today the "enterprise mashup" is a Web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool. Like the musical mashups, enterprise mashups create a new composition that the original makers might never have envisioned.

An example of an enterprise mashup might be a creative combination of enterprise data such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and business intelligence that combines the information in one page that is arranged in a context that makes sense to a particular business user.

Before the enterprise mashup, that same business user had to sign in to several applications and go to different Web sites to manually collect the information and then try to make sense of it. The enterprise mashup Web application overcomes this hassle in an elegant way and allows the user to harness more of the collective intelligence in the enterprise to make better decisions. Mashups have the opportunity to increases the strategic value of IT—by delivering enriched information to users—and reduce IT cycles spent on custom development and reporting.

To build an enterprise mashup, your platform should consist of the following:

  • Services and information produced in a format that can be mashed, such as RSS/Atom, Web services, or REST (representational state transfer)
  • Visualization components such as portlets, widgets, and gadgets
  • A tool to compose the mashup and wire components together
  • A robust infrastructure to manage all the change and new combinations

Learn how Oracle WebCenter and the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products give you the infrastructure and the tools you need to create mashups and other Web 2.0 capabilities with robust enterprise scalability and security.

Learn more about enterprise mashups in "A Real Social Enterprise Mashup" by Oracle's James Owen and Christian Hauser.

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