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.
Last month Chris Shipley quietly spent 15 days touring Australia and New Zealand, scoping out the state of IT development in the region, and ended up picking out a Kiwi company she likes the look of.
Mashups — the new web genre —maybe popular, but there is insufficient control regarding both information accuracy and security, attendees at a recent Canadian conference heard. The result could be that mashups ride roughshod over the rights of the original information owners.
The resurgence of satire as an important weapon of democracy has been one of the benefits of blogging and mashups, local blogger Russell Brown told the audience at the recent Webstock conference.
It was inevitable that someone would coin the phrase “enterprise mashup” and SOA analyst Phil Wainewright seems to have got there first. A mashup, for those not at the white-hot centre of Silicon Valley’s latest craze, is a composite web application.