Mashup FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - SOA

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?