Mashup FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - RSS

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?