With the explosion of cloud computing services, we are witnessing the birth of a new technology that integrates logic across disparate applications with coding. In general, integrating functionality or logic between applications has come to be know as Mashups. While mashups are realitivily easy to create, they almost always require programming skills. This new technology, allows you to integrate functionality from one webservice into another without writing any code. We refer to this as Enterprise Application Mashups (EAM).
Enterprise Application Mashup can be defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate web-based services with enterprise computer applications without code.
Today, Statera just announced their first Enterprise Application Mashup toolset, stratus. The first release of stratus will integrate MS-CRM with SharePoint.
Below are some examples of EAM toolsets:
- IBM's Mashup Center : a comprehensive mashup platform, supporting line of business assembly of simple, flexible, and dynamic web applications.
- Statera's Stratus: a simple mashup platform integrating common enterprise applications like CRM and SharePoint portals.
- Yahoo's Pipes: Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
