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Brian M O’Curran July 14 2009 07:44:25 PM
Event: Discovering the value of IBM Mashup CenterLocation: IBM Office - Southfield, MI (18000 W. Nine Mile Road, Room 1507)
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
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Location: IBM Office - Grand Rapids, MI (2900 CHARLEVOIX DR SE)
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Agenda:
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 4:00 Lecture and Labs
IBM Mashup Center Introduction (presentation)
Lab 1: Build Some Mashups
Business Value of IBM Mashup Center (presentation)
Lab 2: Using “Non-Visual” Widgets
Construction Tools: Widget Factory and WebSphere SMASH (presentation)
Lab 3: Create Widgets with Lotus Widget Factory
IBM Mashup Center Best Practices (presentation)
Customer Flyer
Mashups provide a environment for assembling personal, enterprise and Web content into simple, flexible, and dynamic applications. Web-savvy business users can easily create and share new applications addressing their immediate business needs. Lotus Mashups is currently available as part of IBM Mashup Center — a complete solution which helps organizations improve productivity and effectiveness.
Why Should you Care About Mashups?
Situational Applications
1.Rapidly created to address an immediate need of an individual or community
2.Typically, but not necessarily, short-lived (a just-in-time solution)
3.Good enough
4.Built by domain experts (knowledge workers) to solve their own problems
Why you want Mashups
•Foster innovation by unlocking and remixing information in ways not originally planned for
•Quickly uncover new business insights by easily assembling information from multiple sources on the glass
•Increase agility by supporting dynamic assembly and configuration of applications
•Speed development and reduce development coststhrough lightweight integration, reuse and sharing
Here's a great white paper on the subject... link.
Here's a presentation on the topic... here
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