Enterprise Mashups

Mashups are one of the most repeated buzzwords in the industry. What are they? What is the value to your organization? What are the challenges of adopting mashup technologies across your enterprise? Learn how enterprise mashups help empower business users to solve business problems on their own, something that Microsoft pioneered many years ago. Learn also how Office SharePoint Server is an important part of the overall Microsoft enterprise mashup vision and how it helps you navigate the challenges that mashups bring to your enterprise.

Generate deeper insights
Microsoft helps users combine multiple information sources in creative ways to generate new insights, without the complexities, costs and risks of information or application integration projects, by consolidating disparate information sources.
Empower people via self-service
Microsoft empowers end users to create tactical and opportunistic solutions on their own, without requiring dedicated support from your IT organization.
Communicate through contextual visualizations
With SharePoint, users can create visually appealing dashboards with creative ways of conveying information in context.
Reduce application backlog without losing control and governance
Your IT organization can increase its scale and scope, and increase end user and organizational satisfaction, while maintaining control over existing corporate assets.

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White paper: SharePoint: A Platform for Enterprise and Social Mashups
J.R. Arredondo discusses enterprise mashups, their relevance to business users, and the technologies that make enterprise mashups a reality. We also discuss how SharePoint Products and Technologies address the challenges and roadblocks to the enterprise adoption of mashups, and how enterprise mashups initiatives should be seen within the context of a broader enterprise social computing strategy.
Office Business Applications (OBA) Composition Reference Toolkit
Karthik Ravindran discusses the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit, a shared source project that reveals the composition capabilities of the Microsoft Office system, enabling a prescriptive application composition experience to compose and deploy Office Business Applications (OBAs). The Toolkit components include an OBA Composition Server, an OBA Composer, and a suite a sample components that can be used to experiment with the enabled composition capabilities. Check out this video for an overview or just go ahead and download it. Resources available for download include the toolkit installers and supporting documentation (Architecture Overview, User Guide, Administrators Guide, and Component Developer’s Guide).