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Database (24)
- What are some of the ways we can address the security issues and concerns related to enterprise mashups that leverage external data sources?
- Are you putting Excel in the cloud, when you say repository? Where is this Repository? Google Docs, SharePoint?
- How do you address data quality used in mashups? End users can misinterpret results.
- Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
- Did you do any data scrubbing from the legacy sources?
- Can services be prepared from pretty much any data source including fixed length text files?
- Can you show database integration?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- How do you assess the accuracy or reliability of the source data. How do you know you aren't being fed false data? What ESB security are you using.
- A lot of these use cases seems to be very “read” centric. How many use cases are there for updates of information, and what facilities (if any) are available for assured delivery / “transaction coordination” of the data update?
- The value (and potential risk) of disparate information sources may be larger than the sum of the parts. (your competitive analysis pattern) Are there any design patterns (or tools) for service providers to understand how their information is being used (in perhaps anticipated ways).
- What about how reliable an external resource can be if it's not under your control? What if Google suddenly changes their api or interface or eliminates it?
- We cant use XML, a programming language that originated on the internet to give the information metadata, and then use RSS and other languages to stream the data via syndication into one data aggregator.
- Are the Presto services exposed to other systems such as OpenESB?
- Can Mashups pull specific portions from Seibel eCRM, both from Seibel portal and/or data inside Seibel (oracle database)?
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Will it cost a whole bunch to connect to SAP systems?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- Do you have connectors to sources such as OLAP cubes?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- Can mashups access historical data to show trending, or do aggregations for large volumes of data?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- What level of SOA maturity is required as a prerequisite for effective enterprise mashups?
RSS (31)
- Can these feeds that are aggregated from websites be used as a source to downstream mashups?
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- What BPM tools are compatible with Presto and are there any cloud based BPM?
- What are some of the ways we can address the security issues and concerns related to enterprise mashups that leverage external data sources?
- Are you putting Excel in the cloud, when you say repository? Where is this Repository? Google Docs, SharePoint?
- How do you address data quality used in mashups? End users can misinterpret results.
- Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- Did you do any data scrubbing from the legacy sources?
- What language does the mashlet use (flash, Ajax, etc)?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- Can services be prepared from pretty much any data source including fixed length text files?
- Can you show database integration?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- Is there some sort of international standard for enterprise mashups in the same way that WSDL is for web services?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- How does the protocol (transport or security) conversion happen? Is the developer responsible for it or does the mashup platform take care of it? What i meant was when we talk about using the same mashup on different platforms/channels.
- How do you assess the accuracy or reliability of the source data. How do you know you aren't being fed false data? What ESB security are you using.
- Regarding ‘api enabler’...are you using the browser source or more of a screen scrap for creating an external website API?
- We cant use XML, a programming language that originated on the internet to give the information metadata, and then use RSS and other languages to stream the data via syndication into one data aggregator.
- Are enterprise Mashups portable to different web/application/mashup servers?
- Does Presto integrate into other portal platoforms, e.g. Webcenter?
- How does this compare in construct and operation to the Portal/Portlet style of web page composition.
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- Do you have connectors to sources such as OLAP cubes?
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- How does a mashup compare to business intelligence?
- Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
- What level of SOA maturity is required as a prerequisite for effective enterprise mashups?
JavaScript (16)
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- Are mashlets output as JSF Components?
- I guess the Silverlight question is really: do you have an API that allows me to do that binding? Or do I need to do it myself at this point?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- How would you compare or link J2EE patterns with Mashup patterns?
- Some “mashups” have ability to support some business logic (eg: scripting languages)… are these considered mashups?
- How is the challenge of data sanitation and denormalization addressed in JackBe?
- The mashlet UI support OOTB is simply but has limited features, right? e.g., it's not possible if the users want to define some drag and drop features with JavaScript?
- What charting package(s) do you use? Is there an available list of the specific chart types available? Is it possible to extend the existing chart set with 3rd party charting packages?
- Is it required to compile the mashup separately for its deployment into .Net and J2EE containers? Does it require separate code base?
- Are the Presto services exposed to other systems such as OpenESB?
- Can you discuss your view on difference between (if any) a WSRP/JSR168 compliant portlet with a composite service behind it?
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
Flash (12)
- What language does the mashlet use (flash, Ajax, etc)?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- What is the basis for your statement that "anything on the web is free game" -- many websites have restrictions on use that you must agree to before proceeding (for example, before tracking a package on UPS.com)?
- How does your tool harvest data from Flash/Flex apps on web sites?
- Can I display the mashlets in a Silverlight application?
- The mashlet UI support OOTB is simply but has limited features, right? e.g., it's not possible if the users want to define some drag and drop features with JavaScript?
- Is Mashup driven by AJAX?
- What charting package(s) do you use? Is there an available list of the specific chart types available? Is it possible to extend the existing chart set with 3rd party charting packages?
- Is it required to compile the mashup separately for its deployment into .Net and J2EE containers? Does it require separate code base?
Flex (7)
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- How does your tool harvest data from Flash/Flex apps on web sites?
- The mashlet UI support OOTB is simply but has limited features, right? e.g., it's not possible if the users want to define some drag and drop features with JavaScript?
- Is Mashup driven by AJAX?
- What charting package(s) do you use? Is there an available list of the specific chart types available? Is it possible to extend the existing chart set with 3rd party charting packages?
Java (91)
- What are some of the ways we can address the security issues and concerns related to enterprise mashups that leverage external data sources?
- Are you putting Excel in the cloud, when you say repository? Where is this Repository? Google Docs, SharePoint?
- What are the differences between Presto Wires and Presto Mashup Studio? Do we need both at the same time or is Presto Wires sufficient for our needs?
- Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
- What type of effort does mashup creation usually entail?
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- So the only practical limits to what can be used in a mashup setting are the limits that the enterprise attaches to accessing its data, right?
- Are there ample number of adaptors for connecting to legacy systems?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- So, the mashups are a way for an individual in an enterprise to get what he wants from IT which he couldn't get because building an app for a single instance isn't cost effective for IT. But then you say that once the mashlet is built, thousands of users can use it. Sound like circular justification.
- Process was mentioned; are there flow objects in the wire tool for workflow type conditions between data steps?
- Are mashlets output as JSF Components?
- What language does the mashlet use (flash, Ajax, etc)?
- So the Wires env is the runtime and each user will need to have it installed ? Is there a runtime env that runs in a browser ?
- Does JackBe integrate with enterprise solutions like LDAP,AD etc ?
- Do all capabilities need to be a service? Can you bring in capabilties from an application (i.e. Sametime)
- Would like to see it listening to events via JMS.
- JSR-168 is nice, but it doesn't help me as an ASP.NET developer. Is there support for displaying mashlets in ASP.NET apps?
- I guess the Silverlight question is really: do you have an API that allows me to do that binding? Or do I need to do it myself at this point?
- Can we place these mashups in portal pages/pda, if so, how much customization do i need to do?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- Can services be prepared from pretty much any data source including fixed length text files?
- What if I need to do a string manipulation on Job_ID, in order to match the IDs? e.g., if one source was JobID=00011 and another field was a taxonomical derivative of JobID such as PositionID=CsCI00011, where I need to strip off CsCI in order to make it match. Can I call a java method to strip this?
- Can we do mashups on process?
- Are there any limitations to the amount of services that you can join together?
- Can you show database integration?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- Is a Visual Studio plugin also available?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- How does the protocol (transport or security) conversion happen? Is the developer responsible for it or does the mashup platform take care of it? What i meant was when we talk about using the same mashup on different platforms/channels.
- Does this technology integrate with any of the commercial ESB vendors (TIBCO, IBM, Oracle Fusion etc)..?
- Could you try and differentiate the mashups from traditional portlets?
- You said this works with the existing security. Does it work with LDAP? Does it work with Active Directory?
- How do you assess the accuracy or reliability of the source data. How do you know you aren't being fed false data? What ESB security are you using.
- Transactional cases: I looked into the links you gave about usage of mashups inside eGovernment applications but I haven't seen any transactional ones. Could you confirm that most of the mashups applications are 99.9% non-transactional ones?
- How do we calculate the ROI of doing Mashups? Most of time, it's difficult to sell this concept to CIO.
- Have you seen successful mashup deployment on Force.com platform?
- You briefly mentioned governance, how critical is it that the organization has a cross Biz Unit Enterprise Architecture body to enable (publish) access to a data silo(s) somewhere within the enterprise?
- How would you compare or link J2EE patterns with Mashup patterns?
- In the examples on competitive analysis, were APIs used to get data from different sources or was data obtained via HTTP and then parsed? I'm guessing a lot of retail sites don't necessarily provide APIs to access their price data.
- Regarding ‘api enabler’...are you using the browser source or more of a screen scrap for creating an external website API?
- Say we have a legacy app that is written in VB code that wraps multiple web browsers. The web browsers actually call different java ear files; plus the VB code invokes java web services via SOAP. Could we "rewrite" this app as mashlets using the basic underlying java services & publish the "package" to a browser? Or basically simplify this legacy app plus make it customizable by adding new mashups?
- The value (and potential risk) of disparate information sources may be larger than the sum of the parts. (your competitive analysis pattern) Are there any design patterns (or tools) for service providers to understand how their information is being used (in perhaps anticipated ways).
- Are their best practices for a template on how to organize your mashups? (Not patterns but a template to be used for enterprise mashups)
- It seems mashups won't grow to its potential until tools are available for the business users to easily create the data combinations they value. What are the best business-user tools available today?
- If custom 'mashlets' have to be developed, what's the benefit of developing a mashup versus developing a web application using traditional tooling? Are there productivity benefits you've seen?
- What are the best practices to mitigate website saturation if one or several mashups are hitting the same source website?
- What about how reliable an external resource can be if it's not under your control? What if Google suddenly changes their api or interface or eliminates it?
- Standards are important to enterprises as well. Are there efforts underway on this front w.r.t. mashups?
- What is the future/scope of "Semantic Mashups" w.r.t Semantic Web?
- Will you get into how Mashups and Workflow and BPM work together, risks, issues, etc...?
- Some “mashups” have ability to support some business logic (eg: scripting languages)… are these considered mashups?
- How is the challenge of data sanitation and denormalization addressed in JackBe?
- We cant use XML, a programming language that originated on the internet to give the information metadata, and then use RSS and other languages to stream the data via syndication into one data aggregator.
- Are enterprise Mashups portable to different web/application/mashup servers?
- What is the difference between a mashup and a Portal? Don't they both just collect disparate data and present it in one central area?
- Can I display the mashlets in a Silverlight application?
- Does Presto integrate into other portal platoforms, e.g. Webcenter?
- The mashlet UI support OOTB is simply but has limited features, right? e.g., it's not possible if the users want to define some drag and drop features with JavaScript?
- How do you compare the Enterprise Mashups with Portals? Do Mashups replace Portals?
- Say we have a legacy app that is written in VB code that wraps multiple web browsers. The web browsers actually call different java ear files; plus the VB code invokes java web services via SOAP. Could we "rewrite" this app as mashlets using the basic underlying java services and publish the "package" to a browser? Or basically simplify this legacy app plus make it customizable by adding new mashups?
- Is Mashup driven by AJAX?
- How does this compare in construct and operation to the Portal/Portlet style of web page composition.
- What charting package(s) do you use? Is there an available list of the specific chart types available? Is it possible to extend the existing chart set with 3rd party charting packages?
- Is it required to compile the mashup separately for its deployment into .Net and J2EE containers? Does it require separate code base?
- Are the Presto services exposed to other systems such as OpenESB?
- Can Mashups pull specific portions from Seibel eCRM, both from Seibel portal and/or data inside Seibel (oracle database)?
- Are you using .NET FRAMEWORK 3.5 with AJAX?
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Will it cost a whole bunch to connect to SAP systems?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- What’s the difference btw Enterprise Mashups and an ETL solution?
- Do you have connectors to sources such as OLAP cubes?
- How are mashups different from dashboards that have been around for a while?
- Can you have input fields in the Mashboard that feeds multiple mashlets on the dashboard?
- How much does the use of mashups increase storage need and capacity? It is obviously inherently dependent on how many... and how long they hang around or are for re-use... but is the impact huge?
- For real-time reports, how is Presto handling the high volumes of information flow in terms of pagination of detailed reports or long waiting time-outs to generate a chart? Does it have timing / summarization parameters?
- Our firm is not going to go out and scrape info from the web. How about an example where internally we can mashup mainframe data, existing java webservice calls via SOAP, and data from an excel spreadsheet! Is this possible with the mashup platform?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- How does a mashup compare to business intelligence?
- Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
- Can mashups access historical data to show trending, or do aggregations for large volumes of data?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- Most organizations are currently in the ‘wild’ SOA stage; is it required to implement governance and SOA policies before adopting Mashups successfully?
- Sounds like MashUp is yet another well-tooled layer. Layers get born (or just get named) when the popular layer de-jour fails to be the golden solution and is becoming silo-ed. Mashups, as I see it, are subject to the same trends and, possibly, the same fate of being over-ed by yet another layer. An environment with a reasonable SOA implementation may claim MashUP to be just another massive SOA service.
- I don't see any difference, so far, between SOA and mashups. Many SOA vendors also provide Portals to work with SOA services. (and business users who know the data are responsible for their services).
- What level of SOA maturity is required as a prerequisite for effective enterprise mashups?
- Hi, Presently I make use of Mashup Studio(Eclipse Plugin) and write my EMML scripts. Later I publish these scripts as Mashups that shows up in PRESTO Services/WIRES as Mashup. Assume that some time in future when our application goes LIVE(to production) and while working with PRESTO SERVICES if someone accidentally remove the service (mashup), then do we need to use the same methodology of publishing the Mashup from Eclipse or are there any alternate way of publishing mashups to Presto? Note: The other possibility could be to do migration of data from say staging repository to production repository of Jackbe. Regards, Guruprasad
Portals (56)
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- What BPM tools are compatible with Presto and are there any cloud based BPM?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- JSR-168 is nice, but it doesn't help me as an ASP.NET developer. Is there support for displaying mashlets in ASP.NET apps?
- Can we place these mashups in portal pages/pda, if so, how much customization do i need to do?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- How does the protocol (transport or security) conversion happen? Is the developer responsible for it or does the mashup platform take care of it? What i meant was when we talk about using the same mashup on different platforms/channels.
- Could you try and differentiate the mashups from traditional portlets?
- How do you assess the accuracy or reliability of the source data. How do you know you aren't being fed false data? What ESB security are you using.
- Have you seen successful mashup deployment on Force.com platform?
- How can Mashups, Wikis and CMSs be combined to take advantages of the strengths of each?
- A lot of these use cases seems to be very “read” centric. How many use cases are there for updates of information, and what facilities (if any) are available for assured delivery / “transaction coordination” of the data update?
- The value (and potential risk) of disparate information sources may be larger than the sum of the parts. (your competitive analysis pattern) Are there any design patterns (or tools) for service providers to understand how their information is being used (in perhaps anticipated ways).
- What about how reliable an external resource can be if it's not under your control? What if Google suddenly changes their api or interface or eliminates it?
- So JackBe in not a ‘front end’. You are used for backend and data fusion?
- Can the widgets developed in JackBe be embedded into standard portal solutions like Sun or do then need to be accessed via the JackBe UI?
- What would it take to automatically update one mashlet based on input from another. We just saw an example that did not update.
- Can a badly-written mashlet hang other mashlets on the portal page?
- But the developer is still responsible for visual formatting so it fits different platforms (web, wireless devices etc) - right?
- Are enterprise Mashups portable to different web/application/mashup servers?
- What is widget or gadget w.r.t Mashups?
- What is the difference between a mashup and a Portal? Don't they both just collect disparate data and present it in one central area?
- Do you have samples of public administrations having applied mashups technologies on their websites/portals? (e.g. providing services to their citizens)
- Does Presto integrate into other portal platoforms, e.g. Webcenter?
- So the Wires env is the runtime and each user will need to have it installed ? Is there a runtime env that runs in a browser ?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- The mashlet UI support OOTB is simply but has limited features, right? e.g., it's not possible if the users want to define some drag and drop features with JavaScript?
- How do you compare the Enterprise Mashups with Portals? Do Mashups replace Portals?
- Say we have a legacy app that is written in VB code that wraps multiple web browsers. The web browsers actually call different java ear files; plus the VB code invokes java web services via SOAP. Could we "rewrite" this app as mashlets using the basic underlying java services and publish the "package" to a browser? Or basically simplify this legacy app plus make it customizable by adding new mashups?
- Given that enterprise mashups are created by everyday users, are there any user interface (UI) related best practices or guidelines for building these mashups?
- Are any industry standards emerging for a component model for these visual “widgets” that may be assembled on a mashup page, or shared across mashup platforms?
- Many of these websites that are data sources are Ajax-based, hence pages created on the fly. Can Mashup tools harness Ajax based websites as well?
- The Mashup Server concept looks similar to Portal Server pattern.
- Portals were a big head-ache for our Company. Portals made our elevations times much longer; the upgrades were painful; it had big performance issues, just to name a few of the problems. We invested a lot in time and money into the portal product, then had to backout. We ended up using "tried-n-true" servlet technology to do the same thing. Tell me why a Mashup Platform like Presto will be any different from a maintenance and elevation perspective?
- There are some benefits to portals e.g. governance. Do you see portals as a way to deliver mashups?
- How does this compare in construct and operation to the Portal/Portlet style of web page composition.
- What charting package(s) do you use? Is there an available list of the specific chart types available? Is it possible to extend the existing chart set with 3rd party charting packages?
- Can Mashups pull specific portions from Seibel eCRM, both from Seibel portal and/or data inside Seibel (oracle database)?
- Can you discuss your view on difference between (if any) a WSRP/JSR168 compliant portlet with a composite service behind it?
- What is the secret behind the mashlet being able to run in J2EE and .Net containers e.g. BEA Portal and SharePoint portal?
- Is Presto Server able to integrate with Oracle Webcenter / Oracle (BEA) Portal /PeopleSoft - Portal?
- Will it cost a whole bunch to connect to SAP systems?
- Do you have connectors to sources such as OLAP cubes?
- How are mashups different from dashboards that have been around for a while?
- How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
- Our firm is not going to go out and scrape info from the web. How about an example where internally we can mashup mainframe data, existing java webservice calls via SOAP, and data from an excel spreadsheet! Is this possible with the mashup platform?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- How does a mashup compare to business intelligence?
- Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- I don't see any difference, so far, between SOA and mashups. Many SOA vendors also provide Portals to work with SOA services. (and business users who know the data are responsible for their services).
Excel (33)
- What are some of the ways we can address the security issues and concerns related to enterprise mashups that leverage external data sources?
- Are you putting Excel in the cloud, when you say repository? Where is this Repository? Google Docs, SharePoint?
- Is there a dynamic link so that when Excel updates the mashup gets the new list?
- Where can I get the mashup plugin for excel?
- Do we see mashups moving towards the flexibility & convenience of pivot tables to Excel? Is there an application that quickly assembles these disparate data sources?
- In the case of Excel sheets spread all over the department/organization, do you install servers in individual desktops?
- How can Mashups be applied to Excel sheets that are on desktop? What is the approach to putting an Excel workbook on the web?
- What if the Excel sheets are in some low config desktop.. How do you fetch it?
- How do you address data quality used in mashups? End users can misinterpret results.
- Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
- Did you do any data scrubbing from the legacy sources?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- Is a Visual Studio plugin also available?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Could you try and differentiate the mashups from traditional portlets?
- How do you assess the accuracy or reliability of the source data. How do you know you aren't being fed false data? What ESB security are you using.
- Regarding ‘api enabler’...are you using the browser source or more of a screen scrap for creating an external website API?
- The value (and potential risk) of disparate information sources may be larger than the sum of the parts. (your competitive analysis pattern) Are there any design patterns (or tools) for service providers to understand how their information is being used (in perhaps anticipated ways).
- What about how reliable an external resource can be if it's not under your control? What if Google suddenly changes their api or interface or eliminates it?
- Are enterprise Mashups portable to different web/application/mashup servers?
- Does Presto integrate into other portal platoforms, e.g. Webcenter?
- There are some benefits to portals e.g. governance. Do you see portals as a way to deliver mashups?
- How does this compare in construct and operation to the Portal/Portlet style of web page composition.
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Can Presto create mashups with unstructured data (i.e. word doc checked into a SharePoint site)?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- How are mashups different from dashboards that have been around for a while?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- What level of SOA maturity is required as a prerequisite for effective enterprise mashups?
Silverlight (10)
- Is there an example of the Presto/Silverlight API binding that you can point me to?
- I guess the Silverlight question is really: do you have an API that allows me to do that binding? Or do I need to do it myself at this point?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- Can I display the mashlets in a Silverlight application?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- The mashlet UI support OOTB is simply but has limited features, right? e.g., it's not possible if the users want to define some drag and drop features with JavaScript?
- Is Mashup driven by AJAX?
- What charting package(s) do you use? Is there an available list of the specific chart types available? Is it possible to extend the existing chart set with 3rd party charting packages?
Sharepoint (14)
- Are you putting Excel in the cloud, when you say repository? Where is this Repository? Google Docs, SharePoint?
- What web part in Sharepoint is used to access the mashlet? Also does the SP page update real time as and when the mashlet is refreshed with updated data?
- JSR-168 is nice, but it doesn't help me as an ASP.NET developer. Is there support for displaying mashlets in ASP.NET apps?
- How do you assess the accuracy or reliability of the source data. How do you know you aren't being fed false data? What ESB security are you using.
- Are you using .NET FRAMEWORK 3.5 with AJAX?
- Can Presto create mashups with unstructured data (i.e. word doc checked into a SharePoint site)?
- What is the secret behind the mashlet being able to run in J2EE and .Net containers e.g. BEA Portal and SharePoint portal?
- Is Presto Server able to integrate with Oracle Webcenter / Oracle (BEA) Portal /PeopleSoft - Portal?
- Will it cost a whole bunch to connect to SAP systems?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- Can you create a new generic mashlet similar to grid or chart and have it show up in the view?
- How does a mashup compare to business intelligence?
- Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
- Are mashlets compatible with W3C widget specification?
SOA (41)
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- What are some of the ways we can address the security issues and concerns related to enterprise mashups that leverage external data sources?
- Are you putting Excel in the cloud, when you say repository? Where is this Repository? Google Docs, SharePoint?
- How do you address data quality used in mashups? End users can misinterpret results.
- Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- Did you do any data scrubbing from the legacy sources?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- Do all capabilities need to be a service? Can you bring in capabilties from an application (i.e. Sametime)
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- Are there any limitations to the amount of services that you can join together?
- Can you show database integration?
- Do version Service and methods as well in your services?
- Does this technology integrate with any of the commercial ESB vendors (TIBCO, IBM, Oracle Fusion etc)..?
- Can Mashup Platforms integrate with a SSO architecture already present in an organization?
- How does your tool harvest data from Flash/Flex apps on web sites?
- Are enterprise Mashups portable to different web/application/mashup servers?
- Does Presto integrate into other portal platoforms, e.g. Webcenter?
- Say we have a legacy app that is written in VB code that wraps multiple web browsers. The web browsers actually call different java ear files; plus the VB code invokes java web services via SOAP. Could we "rewrite" this app as mashlets using the basic underlying java services and publish the "package" to a browser? Or basically simplify this legacy app plus make it customizable by adding new mashups?
- There are some benefits to portals e.g. governance. Do you see portals as a way to deliver mashups?
- How does this compare in construct and operation to the Portal/Portlet style of web page composition.
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- Do you have connectors to sources such as OLAP cubes?
- How are mashups different from dashboards that have been around for a while?
- Our firm is not going to go out and scrape info from the web. How about an example where internally we can mashup mainframe data, existing java webservice calls via SOAP, and data from an excel spreadsheet! Is this possible with the mashup platform?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- How does a mashup compare to business intelligence?
- Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- Most organizations are currently in the ‘wild’ SOA stage; is it required to implement governance and SOA policies before adopting Mashups successfully?
- Sounds like MashUp is yet another well-tooled layer. Layers get born (or just get named) when the popular layer de-jour fails to be the golden solution and is becoming silo-ed. Mashups, as I see it, are subject to the same trends and, possibly, the same fate of being over-ed by yet another layer. An environment with a reasonable SOA implementation may claim MashUP to be just another massive SOA service.
- Does this technology integrate with any of the commercial ESB vendors (TIBCO, IBM, Oracle Fusion etc)..?
- After creating a Mashup (which is a service in itself), can it be deployed in a SOA environment e.g. publishing it in UDDI etc?
- I don't see any difference, so far, between SOA and mashups. Many SOA vendors also provide Portals to work with SOA services. (and business users who know the data are responsible for their services).
- Could you explain what is the place of SOA w.r.t. Mashups?
- What level of SOA maturity is required as a prerequisite for effective enterprise mashups?
- Can we eliminate our dependency on SOA and ESB for app to app integration using JackBe?
- How does mashups fits in a SOA strategy? I can see that some BPMS have similar capabilities for UI development. I see greater value at a "Composite Application" approach. Is this correct?
- Are mashlets compatible with W3C widget specification?
3rd Party Software (41)
- What is the platform used?
- What BPM tools are compatible with Presto and are there any cloud based BPM?
- What are some of the ways we can address the security issues and concerns related to enterprise mashups that leverage external data sources?
- Are you putting Excel in the cloud, when you say repository? Where is this Repository? Google Docs, SharePoint?
- In the case of Excel sheets spread all over the department/organization, do you install servers in individual desktops?
- Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
- Is there a specific IDE for the "development"?
- What is the platform used?
- So the only practical limits to what can be used in a mashup setting are the limits that the enterprise attaches to accessing its data, right?
- Does JackBe integrate with enterprise solutions like LDAP,AD etc ?
- Is there a plan to submit EMML to an international standards body such as OASIS?
- If I can deploy to WebSphere, is it a WAR or EAR? Is there an ANT script to repackage the EAR with my JAR? JBoss support?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- Can Presto mashup server can run on top of WebSphere 6.1 and WebLogic application server ?
- Can services be prepared from pretty much any data source including fixed length text files?
- If services require passing parameters (example: department_id), can your GUI tool allow passing parameter?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- How does the protocol (transport or security) conversion happen? Is the developer responsible for it or does the mashup platform take care of it? What i meant was when we talk about using the same mashup on different platforms/channels.
- Could you try and differentiate the mashups from traditional portlets?
- You said this works with the existing security. Does it work with LDAP? Does it work with Active Directory?
- How do you assess the accuracy or reliability of the source data. How do you know you aren't being fed false data? What ESB security are you using.
- Does decentralized authorization across disparate secure data sources create inefficiencies in the mashup user experience? Can these be solved through an account/password registry in a secure fashion?
- You briefly mentioned governance, how critical is it that the organization has a cross Biz Unit Enterprise Architecture body to enable (publish) access to a data silo(s) somewhere within the enterprise?
- Can we implement or use these mashups with any middleware products like JCAPS, TIBCO, BIZTALK, WEBMETHODS etc?
- The value (and potential risk) of disparate information sources may be larger than the sum of the parts. (your competitive analysis pattern) Are there any design patterns (or tools) for service providers to understand how their information is being used (in perhaps anticipated ways).
- What about how reliable an external resource can be if it's not under your control? What if Google suddenly changes their api or interface or eliminates it?
- Will you get into how Mashups and Workflow and BPM work together, risks, issues, etc...?
- But the developer is still responsible for visual formatting so it fits different platforms (web, wireless devices etc) - right?
- Does Presto integrate into other portal platoforms, e.g. Webcenter?
- Are any industry standards emerging for a component model for these visual “widgets” that may be assembled on a mashup page, or shared across mashup platforms?
- How does this compare in construct and operation to the Portal/Portlet style of web page composition.
- Are the Presto services exposed to other systems such as OpenESB?
- Is Jackbe a stand alone mashup app?
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- Does this technology allow me to alleviate the need for specific reporting tools.
- How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- Can we eliminate our dependency on SOA and ESB for app to app integration using JackBe?
- How do I install Presto MediaWiki Plugin?
Documentation (3)
- Is there any documentation on expense savings mashups have created by company or industry?
- What charting package(s) do you use? Is there an available list of the specific chart types available? Is it possible to extend the existing chart set with 3rd party charting packages?
- What do I do if I find a typo or mistake in the documentation? Is there a place to post this kind of feedback in the forums?
Presto APIs (19)
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- JSR-168 is nice, but it doesn't help me as an ASP.NET developer. Is there support for displaying mashlets in ASP.NET apps?
- Is there an example of the Presto/Silverlight API binding that you can point me to?
- I guess the Silverlight question is really: do you have an API that allows me to do that binding? Or do I need to do it myself at this point?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Is a Visual Studio plugin also available?
- What kind of things NEED to be done via API instead of visually?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- In the examples on competitive analysis, were APIs used to get data from different sources or was data obtained via HTTP and then parsed? I'm guessing a lot of retail sites don't necessarily provide APIs to access their price data.
- Regarding ‘api enabler’...are you using the browser source or more of a screen scrap for creating an external website API?
- How do we deal with lack of service level agreements for APIs from external sources? What are the workarounds?
- What about how reliable an external resource can be if it's not under your control? What if Google suddenly changes their api or interface or eliminates it?
- How does this compare in construct and operation to the Portal/Portlet style of web page composition.
- Are the Presto services exposed to other systems such as OpenESB?
- Do you have connectors to sources such as OLAP cubes?
- How much does the use of mashups increase storage need and capacity? It is obviously inherently dependent on how many... and how long they hang around or are for re-use... but is the impact huge?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- Can anyone share a mashup using the Salesforce.com API?
Presto Mashup Server (38)
- So the only practical limits to what can be used in a mashup setting are the limits that the enterprise attaches to accessing its data, right?
- What BPM tools are compatible with Presto and are there any cloud based BPM?
- Are you putting Excel in the cloud, when you say repository? Where is this Repository? Google Docs, SharePoint?
- In the case of Excel sheets spread all over the department/organization, do you install servers in individual desktops?
- As users create mashups, can this be difficult for IT to manage? Errors occur, changes do too. In a mashup, how does IT know who consumes the mashups and alert them?
- So the only practical limits to what can be used in a mashup setting are the limits that the enterprise attaches to accessing its data, right?
- I see that this has a direct approach to "temporary" dashboarding... but I feel this is doing more than just populating dashboards...am I right on that assumption?
- If I can deploy to WebSphere, is it a WAR or EAR? Is there an ANT script to repackage the EAR with my JAR? JBoss support?
- Can Presto mashup server can run on top of WebSphere 6.1 and WebLogic application server ?
- Is the Presto server WMI or WBEM enabled for health monitoring purposes?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Transactional cases: I looked into the links you gave about usage of mashups inside eGovernment applications but I haven't seen any transactional ones. Could you confirm that most of the mashups applications are 99.9% non-transactional ones?
- Have you seen successful mashup deployment on Force.com platform?
- A lot of these use cases seems to be very “read” centric. How many use cases are there for updates of information, and what facilities (if any) are available for assured delivery / “transaction coordination” of the data update?
- Isn’t screen scraping error prone? (It can break very very easily).
- Can Mashup Platforms integrate with a SSO architecture already present in an organization?
- If the tools are for both developers and business users, how is duplication of applications reduced (since we know that the communication between the two communities isn't necessarily 'open')?
- How secure is a system using a Mashup? Is it Hack proof? We are using data from other sources and should not end up sharing that data with hackers.
- Having all these mashup agents running around is really going to affect hit rates and bandwidth; almost like an unintentional denial of service?
- ‘Shadow copy' sounds very interesting – but it raises some IPR challenges unless the data is open source.
- Will you get into how Mashups and Workflow and BPM work together, risks, issues, etc...?
- We cant use XML, a programming language that originated on the internet to give the information metadata, and then use RSS and other languages to stream the data via syndication into one data aggregator.
- The Mashup Server concept looks similar to Portal Server pattern.
- Portals were a big head-ache for our Company. Portals made our elevations times much longer; the upgrades were painful; it had big performance issues, just to name a few of the problems. We invested a lot in time and money into the portal product, then had to backout. We ended up using "tried-n-true" servlet technology to do the same thing. Tell me why a Mashup Platform like Presto will be any different from a maintenance and elevation perspective?
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Is Presto Server able to integrate with Oracle Webcenter / Oracle (BEA) Portal /PeopleSoft - Portal?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- How much does the use of mashups increase storage need and capacity? It is obviously inherently dependent on how many... and how long they hang around or are for re-use... but is the impact huge?
- For real-time reports, how is Presto handling the high volumes of information flow in terms of pagination of detailed reports or long waiting time-outs to generate a chart? Does it have timing / summarization parameters?
- How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- How does a mashup compare to business intelligence?
- Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
- I don't see any difference, so far, between SOA and mashups. Many SOA vendors also provide Portals to work with SOA services. (and business users who know the data are responsible for their services).
- Could you explain what is the place of SOA w.r.t. Mashups?
- How does mashups fits in a SOA strategy? I can see that some BPMS have similar capabilities for UI development. I see greater value at a "Composite Application" approach. Is this correct?
- How do I install Presto MediaWiki Plugin?
Presto Mashables (48)
- What are the differences between Presto Wires and Presto Mashup Studio? Do we need both at the same time or is Presto Wires sufficient for our needs?
- Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
- What type of effort does [mashup creation] usually entail?
- What if the Excel sheets are in some low config desktop.. How do you fetch it?
- How do you address data quality used in mashups? End users can misinterpret results.
- What are the differences between Presto Wires and Presto Mashup Studio? Do we need both at the same time or is Presto Wires sufficient for our needs?
- Can I use unstructured data and a type of input for a mashup?
- What type of effort does mashup creation usually entail?
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- Is there a specific IDE for the "development"?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- So, the mashups are a way for an individual in an enterprise to get what he wants from IT which he couldn't get because building an app for a single instance isn't cost effective for IT. But then you say that once the mashlet is built, thousands of users can use it. Sound like circular justification.
- Are mashlets output as JSF Components?
- I see that this has a direct approach to "temporary" dashboarding... but I feel this is doing more than just populating dashboards...am I right on that assumption?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- Can services be prepared from pretty much any data source including fixed length text files?
- Can we do mashups on process?
- What is the deliverable to the client? A mashup? Mashlet? I'm trying to understand how the application dev process changes in a mashup architecture.
- Is a Visual Studio plugin also available?
- What kind of things NEED to be done via API instead of visually?
- Are you using WebDAV or servlets to publish EMML?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Can you comment on the differences between mashups as the means to aggregate data using standard to present in different consumption channels vs. using mashups to invoke services to perform functions/business processes that execute a backend application task (if that's even relevant for mashups)?
- Does this technology integrate with any of the commercial ESB vendors (TIBCO, IBM, Oracle Fusion etc)..?
- How would you compare or link J2EE patterns with Mashup patterns?
- Can we implement or use these mashups with any middleware products like JCAPS, TIBCO, BIZTALK, WEBMETHODS etc?
- It seems mashups won't grow to its potential until tools are available for the business users to easily create the data combinations they value. What are the best business-user tools available today?
- How is the challenge of data sanitation and denormalization addressed in JackBe?
- Is there a programmatic interface for adding services and mashups, or is everything done through the GUI? Meaning, can I write a script to add my services and mashups? How is the configuration saved? How do I back it up?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- Is Mashup driven by AJAX?
- Mostly Mashups talk about UI level integration, how do they provide "data-level" integration b/w disparate systems by resolving conflicts?
- Is it required to compile the mashup separately for its deployment into .Net and J2EE containers? Does it require separate code base?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- What’s the difference btw Enterprise Mashups and an ETL solution?
- How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
- Our firm is not going to go out and scrape info from the web. How about an example where internally we can mashup mainframe data, existing java webservice calls via SOAP, and data from an excel spreadsheet! Is this possible with the mashup platform?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- How does a mashup compare to business intelligence?
- Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
- Can mashups access historical data to show trending, or do aggregations for large volumes of data?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- After creating a Mashup (which is a service in itself), can it be deployed in a SOA environment e.g. publishing it in UDDI etc?
- I don't see any difference, so far, between SOA and mashups. Many SOA vendors also provide Portals to work with SOA services. (and business users who know the data are responsible for their services).
- What level of SOA maturity is required as a prerequisite for effective enterprise mashups?
- Hi, Presently I make use of Mashup Studio(Eclipse Plugin) and write my EMML scripts. Later I publish these scripts as Mashups that shows up in PRESTO Services/WIRES as Mashup. Assume that some time in future when our application goes LIVE(to production) and while working with PRESTO SERVICES if someone accidentally remove the service (mashup), then do we need to use the same methodology of publishing the Mashup from Eclipse or are there any alternate way of publishing mashups to Presto? Note: The other possibility could be to do migration of data from say staging repository to production repository of Jackbe. Regards, Guruprasad
- Is there a sample mashup/mashlet included with the Presto Developer Edition 2.5?
Presto Wires (13)
- What are the differences between Presto Wires and Presto Mashup Studio? Do we need both at the same time or is Presto Wires sufficient for our needs?
- What type of effort does [mashup creation] usually entail?
- What are the differences between Presto Wires and Presto Mashup Studio? Do we need both at the same time or is Presto Wires sufficient for our needs?
- What type of effort does mashup creation usually entail?
- Process was mentioned; are there flow objects in the wire tool for workflow type conditions between data steps?
- How do you run the EMML? Only from the Wires interface?
- So the Wires env is the runtime and each user will need to have it installed ? Is there a runtime env that runs in a browser ?
- Can anything that can be done via emml (?) also be done graphically, or does emml have capability that the gui does not?
- Beyond presentation (mashlets), how mashups can lead to leaner process automation by mixing info from different types of applications?
- How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
- Hi, Presently I make use of Mashup Studio(Eclipse Plugin) and write my EMML scripts. Later I publish these scripts as Mashups that shows up in PRESTO Services/WIRES as Mashup. Assume that some time in future when our application goes LIVE(to production) and while working with PRESTO SERVICES if someone accidentally remove the service (mashup), then do we need to use the same methodology of publishing the Mashup from Eclipse or are there any alternate way of publishing mashups to Presto? Note: The other possibility could be to do migration of data from say staging repository to production repository of Jackbe. Regards, Guruprasad
- Can I hide a published Mashup in Wires? I've created a Mashup using EMML script. I want this mashup to be used for some data processing. I don't want this Mashup to get displayed in WIRES. But unless I publish the Mashup I'll not be able to invoke it. So is there a way for publishing the Mashup but still making it not to appear in the WIRES?
- I'm trying to create a Mashup using EMML. How can I define inputs to my Mashup such that it can take multiple inputs something similar to MERGE operations in JackBe actions. In the JackBe Wires I should be able to feed mulitple inputs to my Mashup.
Presto Add-Ons (25)
- Is there an event driven aspect to your products?
- Are there ample number of adaptors for connecting to legacy systems?
- How can Mashups be applied to Excel sheets that are on desktop? What is the approach to putting an Excel workbook on the web?
- Is there an event driven aspect to your products?
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- Did you do any data scrubbing from the legacy sources?
- Are there ample number of adaptors for connecting to legacy systems?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- Would like to see it listening to events via JMS.
- Can we place these mashups in portal pages/pda, if so, how much customization do i need to do?
- Are there any limitations to the amount of services that you can join together?
- Does this technology have connectors to Oracle database 9i?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- How can Mashups, Wikis and CMSs be combined to take advantages of the strengths of each?
- We cant use XML, a programming language that originated on the internet to give the information metadata, and then use RSS and other languages to stream the data via syndication into one data aggregator.
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Can Presto create mashups with unstructured data (i.e. word doc checked into a SharePoint site)?
- Will it cost a whole bunch to connect to SAP systems?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- Do you have connectors to sources such as OLAP cubes?
- How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
- Our firm is not going to go out and scrape info from the web. How about an example where internally we can mashup mainframe data, existing java webservice calls via SOAP, and data from an excel spreadsheet! Is this possible with the mashup platform?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- Can mashups access historical data to show trending, or do aggregations for large volumes of data?
Presto Wires Blocks (36)
Custom blocks for Presto Wires
- Do we see mashups moving towards the flexibility & convenience of pivot tables to Excel? Is there an application that quickly assembles these disparate data sources?
- What web part in Sharepoint is used to access the mashlet? Also does the SP page update real time as and when the mashlet is refreshed with updated data?
- What is running in the Client Browser? Is there a local executable that gets deployed to the client PC?
- So, the mashups are a way for an individual in an enterprise to get what he wants from IT which he couldn't get because building an app for a single instance isn't cost effective for IT. But then you say that once the mashlet is built, thousands of users can use it. Sound like circular justification.
- Can you turn off the viral nature of the widget?
- Are mashlets output as JSF Components?
- What language does the mashlet use (flash, Ajax, etc)?
- Can the mashups be configured to accept push messages which will later reflect on the Mashlet live?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- Is there a way to extend the product with more chart types, e.g., to handle statistical process control chart?
- Can you please review what the outcome are of the mashup? RSS / GRID / CHART anything else? .. HTML?
- What kind of things NEED to be done via API instead of visually?
- Can widgets only be viewed on web browsers or is there support for programmatically accessing widget data from .NET or Java?
- How can Mashups, Wikis and CMSs be combined to take advantages of the strengths of each?
- If custom 'mashlets' have to be developed, what's the benefit of developing a mashup versus developing a web application using traditional tooling? Are there productivity benefits you've seen?
- So JackBe in not a ‘front end’. You are used for backend and data fusion?
- Can the widgets developed in JackBe be embedded into standard portal solutions like Sun or do then need to be accessed via the JackBe UI?
- What would it take to automatically update one mashlet based on input from another. We just saw an example that did not update.
- Can a badly-written mashlet hang other mashlets on the portal page?
- What is widget or gadget w.r.t Mashups?
- What is the difference between a mashup and a Portal? Don't they both just collect disparate data and present it in one central area?
- Can I display the mashlets in a Silverlight application?
- Does Presto integrate into other portal platoforms, e.g. Webcenter?
- So the Wires env is the runtime and each user will need to have it installed ? Is there a runtime env that runs in a browser ?
- Can I display a mashlet within a Silverlight control/application?
- How do you compare the Enterprise Mashups with Portals? Do Mashups replace Portals?
- Is it required to compile the mashup separately for its deployment into .Net and J2EE containers? Does it require separate code base?
- Beyond presentation (mashlets), how mashups can lead to leaner process automation by mixing info from different types of applications?
- What is the secret behind the mashlet being able to run in J2EE and .Net containers e.g. BEA Portal and SharePoint portal?
- Can you create a new generic mashlet similar to grid or chart and have it show up in the view?
- Can you have input fields in the Mashboard that feeds multiple mashlets on the dashboard?
- How much does the use of mashups increase storage need and capacity? It is obviously inherently dependent on how many... and how long they hang around or are for re-use... but is the impact huge?
- Are mashlets compatible with W3C widget specification?
- How do I install Presto MediaWiki Plugin?
- Can anyone share a mashup using the Salesforce.com API?
- Is there a sample mashup/mashlet included with the Presto Developer Edition 2.5?
Presto Mashboard (5)
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- How does the protocol (transport or security) conversion happen? Is the developer responsible for it or does the mashup platform take care of it? What i meant was when we talk about using the same mashup on different platforms/channels.
- Can you have input fields in the Mashboard that feeds multiple mashlets on the dashboard?
- How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
- Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
EMML (22)
- What are the differences between Presto Wires and Presto Mashup Studio? Do we need both at the same time or is Presto Wires sufficient for our needs?
- What are the differences between Presto Wires and Presto Mashup Studio? Do we need both at the same time or is Presto Wires sufficient for our needs?
- Did you do any data scrubbing from the legacy sources?
- How do you run the EMML? Only from the Wires interface?
- Is there a programmatic interface for adding services and mashups, or is everything done through the GUI? Meaning, can I write a script to add my services and mashups? How is the configuration saved? How do I back it up?
- How do you handle EMML versioning?
- Is there a plan to submit EMML to an international standards body such as OASIS?
- What if I need to do a string manipulation on Job_ID, in order to match the IDs? e.g., if one source was JobID=00011 and another field was a taxonomical derivative of JobID such as PositionID=CsCI00011, where I need to strip off CsCI in order to make it match. Can I call a java method to strip this?
- Is there some sort of international standard for enterprise mashups in the same way that WSDL is for web services?
- Are you using WebDAV or servlets to publish EMML?
- Isn’t screen scraping error prone? (It can break very very easily).
- If custom 'mashlets' have to be developed, what's the benefit of developing a mashup versus developing a web application using traditional tooling? Are there productivity benefits you've seen?
- What are the best practices to mitigate website saturation if one or several mashups are hitting the same source website?
- Some “mashups” have ability to support some business logic (eg: scripting languages)… are these considered mashups?
- Can anything that can be done via emml (?) also be done graphically, or does emml have capability that the gui does not?
- How is the challenge of data sanitation and denormalization addressed in JackBe?
- Is there a programmatic interface for adding services and mashups, or is everything done through the GUI? Meaning, can I write a script to add my services and mashups? How is the configuration saved? How do I back it up?
- Beyond presentation (mashlets), how mashups can lead to leaner process automation by mixing info from different types of applications?
- I don't see any difference, so far, between SOA and mashups. Many SOA vendors also provide Portals to work with SOA services. (and business users who know the data are responsible for their services).
- Hi, Presently I make use of Mashup Studio(Eclipse Plugin) and write my EMML scripts. Later I publish these scripts as Mashups that shows up in PRESTO Services/WIRES as Mashup. Assume that some time in future when our application goes LIVE(to production) and while working with PRESTO SERVICES if someone accidentally remove the service (mashup), then do we need to use the same methodology of publishing the Mashup from Eclipse or are there any alternate way of publishing mashups to Presto? Note: The other possibility could be to do migration of data from say staging repository to production repository of Jackbe. Regards, Guruprasad
- Can I hide a published Mashup in Wires? I've created a Mashup using EMML script. I want this mashup to be used for some data processing. I don't want this Mashup to get displayed in WIRES. But unless I publish the Mashup I'll not be able to invoke it. So is there a way for publishing the Mashup but still making it not to appear in the WIRES?
- I'm trying to create a Mashup using EMML. How can I define inputs to my Mashup such that it can take multiple inputs something similar to MERGE operations in JackBe actions. In the JackBe Wires I should be able to feed mulitple inputs to my Mashup.
Other (15)
- Accessing credible or trustworthy data has been a problem for the insurance industry for many years. If this problem is not resolved how can any mashup help? How will a mashup help?
- Is there a seamless sign-on?
- As users create mashups, can this be difficult for IT to manage? Errors occur, changes do too. In a mashup, how does IT know who consumes the mashups and alert them?
- In a certain way, you are turning the user base into a global IT development unit.
- Do you interface with UDDI directories?
- If services require passing parameters (example: department_id), can your GUI tool allow passing parameter?
- Does your security model supports RBAC and ABAC authorization?
- How do build a feedback loop to IT?
- Users will out! Mashups are an evolutionary extension of the mainframe-vs-PC wars of 1970-80s. IT must manage rather than control user and department level business automation extensions (my definition of mashup). Back then our greatest concern was not to impede such evolution but finding new ways of managing and sharing it. Are these Mashup Patterns focused toward the business-level development, IT management, or both?
- Are Mashups Stateless or Stateful applications?
- How critical is it that the organization has a cross Biz Unit Enterprise Architecture body to enable (publish) access to a data silo(s), as well as publish mashups for reuse?
- Given that enterprise mashups are created by everyday users, are there any user interface (UI) related best practices or guidelines for building these mashups?
- How is this different from what we could do from a ESB or EAI framework?
- How do you mashup services that have access controls in place such as userid and password? Can JackBe pass userid and password to systems for the user or prompt the user for the information?
- Is JackBe an internationalized application to support localization? Does it have LOCALE support for Jackbe Services/Wires/Admin etc?
