Lotus Mashups - hybrid applications for business

Topics devoted to hybrid applications or mashups, as well as related topics, such as finding out which is better, or web-based applications, periodically appear on the desktop. But very little information about their practical application and benefits.

Let's try to see what advantages the use of mashups in business can reveal (by the way, you can read general information about hybrid applications here ).


Every day in the world in various ways several million gigabytes of data are created. Only their minimum share is useful for an individual employee or a business as a whole. Collecting the necessary information from open external sources is not a big problem, there is enough software for this on the market. And how to be, for example, with the collection of information from internal sources in compliance with the conditions and levels of security and confidentiality, and how to ensure that information collected from various sources is presented as a whole. All these issues are well solved mashup-technology. As a rule, we are talking about an application that combines data from several sources into one integrated tool. For example, mashup, integrating data from external and internal sources, can create a report on the occupied part of the market, combining an external list of all goods sold over the past week with internal data about which products were sold by a particular seller. Or, mashup, combining weather information with a retail management system, adjusts stocks.
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Often, to solve business problems, not one hybrid application is required, but several; at the same time, after a certain amount of time, one part of the applications will need to be changed, and the other will be completely removed. What to do then? In this case, special environments come to the rescue, allowing you to integrate and manage applications, such as IBM Lotus Mashups .


IBM Lotus Mashups provides a simplified hybrid application environment that allows you to combine your own, corporate, and Web content to create simple, flexible, and dynamic applications. With Lotus Mashups, business users can easily create and share new applications that meet their immediate business needs. For greater efficiency and productivity, Lotus Mashups comes as part of the comprehensive IBM Mashup Center solution. This solution provides the control, security, and management capabilities needed for IT services.

IBM Lotus Mashups includes:
• A browser-based graphical tool to help you easily build a transparent layout of new applications.
• Catalog of hybrid applications that will help simplify the sharing and search for components for hybrid applications.
• Easy-to-use development environment for quickly creating dynamic widgets.
• A wide selection of ready-to-use business-oriented widgets. Also, Lotus Mashups can use any widgets available on the Internet, for example, Google Gadgets.


In summary, IBM Lotus Mashups allows you to:
• Increase responsiveness by simplifying reuse and quickly recomposing content when creating new Web applications.
• Maintain innovation and new business opportunities through the creation of situational applications focused on meeting highly specialized business requirements.
• Obtain valuable information and more effective solutions to business problems by providing business users with the opportunity to combine disparate flows and widgets in new applications for individual or collective use.
• Improve IT compliance with business needs through rapid prototyping and self-service.
• Expand the reach and increase the value of a service-oriented architecture by simplifying the use of services.

Among other things, Lotus Mashups along with IBM Mashup Center integrates with other IBM business-oriented solutions, for example, with IBM Cognos, IBM Infosphere, IBM WebSphere, which allows solving business problems more efficiently and quickly.

Learn more about IBM Lotus Mashups - www-01.ibm.com/software/en/lotus/products/mashups
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