Enterprise Mashups Part II: Why SOA Architects Should Care - Quotes from Chris Warner and John Crupi @ JackBe Corp.

Posted 01/19/2010 - 11:32 by MiMi Levine

Gartner recently named Enterprise Mashups a “Top 10 Strategic Technology for 2008”, noting that “by 2010, Web mashups will be the dominant model (80 percent) for the creation of composite enterprise applications.” [REF-1] This should make any SOA architect sit up and wonder: Can I describe the value of mashups? Can I outline the relationship between mashups and existing enterprise technology like SOA? 

Knowing the answers to these questions can advance you well down the road to embracing this exciting technology in your organization. In Part 1 of this three-part series, we defined a mashup in the context of the enterprise, contrasted it against other common data integration technologies, and outlined some of the more important architectural elements of an enterprise-grade mashup solution. Now, in Part 2, we’ll discuss why SOA architects should care about enterprise mashups.

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