IBM Mashup Center

IBM Mashup Center is an easy-to-use business mashup platform, supporting line of business assembly of dynamic situational applications - with the management, security, and governance capabilities IT requires.

IBM Mashup Center combines the intuitive user mashup capabilities from IBM Lotus Mashups and the information access and transformation capabilities of IBM InfoSphere MashupHub into one tightly integrated, comprehensive mashup offering.

In addition to IBM Mashup Center, IBM also offers IBM WebSphere sMash : an agile dynamic scripting environment that allows developers to build and run REST-style components using visual tooling and dynamic scripting languages like PHP and groovy. Scripting developers can use WebSphere sMash to quickly create widgets that can be assembled into new web applications using IBM Mashup Center.

Supporting each step of the mashup workflow

Unlock information sources

• Unlock a wide range of information sources within the enterprise including databases, desktop and departmental information, and internal and external Web sites.
• Technically-savvy users simply point-and-click using a wizard-based interface to create consumable feeds. Users can enable caching for performance optimization, add technical documentation, and specify security permissions. Using the feed generation capabilities of IBM Mashup Center, existing core systems can be better utilized and shared, without the need to copy or replicate data sources and without requiring changes to the underlying systems.
• IBM Mashup Center provides out-of-the-box connectors to the most common back-end sources, from enterprise systems like SAP to desktop data like Microsoft Excel. Customers can also create their own connectors using IBM Mashup Center's highly extensible plug-in framework.
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Create dynamic widgets

• IBM Mashup Center includes Lotus Widget Factory - a powerful widget creation environment that enables developers of all skill levels to rapidly generate widgets without coding. Intuitive wizards step you through common widget creation tasks, such as building interactive user interfaces for REST-based services, enabling widgets to send and receive events, or generating dynamic widget personalization screens. Lotus Widget Factory is tightly integrated with IBM Mashup Center, supporting automatic deployment of widgets to the mashup server, helping to speed testing and increase developers' productivity.
• IBM Mashup Center developers can also choose to extend their widget creation options by utilizing IBM WebSphere sMash. With WebSphere sMash, scripting developers can quickly pull together dynamic Web 2.0. applications, which can also be re-purposed as widgets for use in mashups.
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Transform information

• IBM Mashup Center allows information feeds to be mixed and transformed into net new feeds, also known as data mashups. Using a visual, browser-based tool, information and business analysts can re-mix, merge, group, sort, annotate, filter, and transform feeds in a variety of ways, creating a single view of disparate sets of information in minutes. While a rich set of out-of-the-box functions and operators are provided for common manipulation tasks, advanced functions are also supported, such as regular expressions, variance, and encoding. Once a new feed is created, it can be published in a number of formats, including ATOM, RSS, and XML.
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Discover and share assets

• Once mashups, widgets, or feeds are created, they can easily be published to a centralized catalog, where other users can discover and reuse them. The catalog includes built-in Web 2.0 community features like ratings, tagging and commenting. These community-enhancing features help to illuminate the most useful assets, while also increasing productivity by encouraging reuse. In addition, with the catalog, organizations can apply the appropriate levels of governance by securing which users or groups can see which assets.
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Rapid Assembly of Mashups

• With IBM Mashup Center's browser-based assembly tool, end users can quickly and easily assemble new mashups by dragging and dropping widgets onto the page, and then wiring them together on-the-glass. This tool includes a set of out-of-the-box, business-ready widgets that jump start mashup creation and support a wide range of information visualization options, such as charts and table views. In addition, users can easily extend their mashup environment by incorporating custom developed widgets provided by IT, widgets available on the external IBM Mashup Catalog, or widgets from across the Web, including any of the thousands of Google Gadgets.
• Once a mashup is assembled, it can be easily shared. Visual tools are provided that allow end users to define what users or groups can view or edit their various pages. Mashups can also be published to the catalog, where other users can easily reuse them.
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