Mashups may make BI applications less secure
I hate to be the teetotaler at the mashup party, but someone has to take a sober look at the security implications of this emerging approach to business intelligence.
I hate to be the teetotaler at the mashup party, but someone has to take a sober look at the security implications of this emerging approach to business intelligence.
Big vendors like Oracle, IBM and Microsoft were all over the show floor at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco at the end of last month, testimony that new web-based technologies are making their way into the enterprise. But some attendees are still wondering, what is an enterprise mashup, and what will it do for me?
Which technologies must any good IT executive examine in 2008? The list includes green power, unified communications, virtualization, mashups and social software.
Gartner has identified the “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008”, and is urging IT executives to think about the risk of not implementing each one. If your competitor masters one of these technologies and you don't, will you be at a strategic disadvantage?
The OpenAjax Alliance, formed to boost interoperability in the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) realm, has put forth an aggressive roadmap that recognises the growing trend toward mashups.
BEA Systems has released a trio of products in a suite geared for Web 2.0.