An Article Worth Reading: 'Enterprise Mashups - The Icing on your SOA'

Much has been written about the synergy between mashups and SOA (we rcapped a lot of it in a recent blog).  Mike Kavis at Toolbox.com has gone one step further and added mashups into the SOA-enabled enterprise archietcture.  

Here's the setup: 

We want to hide the complexity of our architecture from the end user and expose data services to them to consume. At the same time we want these mashups to be equally secure as the services we write and adhere to the same governing principles. Enterprise mashup products provide tools to make managing this layer easy and efficient.

We couldn't agree more.  And here's the knock-out punch:

For those organizations who are disciplined enough to implement SOA and follow the best practices of design and governance, the reward can be an simple addition of an Enterprise Mashup Platform on top of your SOA stack.

You can (and should!) read the entire article on Toolbox.com.  And then come back here and tell us what you think!