business workers still spend a significant amount of time manually integrating together the data in their ever increasing number of business applications. Tools that could let thousands of workers solve their situational software integration problems on the spot themselves, instead of waiting (sometimes forever) for IT to provide a solution, is indeed a potent vision. ^{link »}

mashups are just starting to be considered seriously in many organizations ^{link »}

1) deep access to existing enterprise services and data/content repositories ^{link »}

2) SaaS-style Web-based mashup assembly and use ^{link »}

3) assembly models that are truly end-user friendly with very little training required ^{link »}

4) a credible management and maintenance story for IT departments that must support a flood of public end-user built and integrated apps, and last but certainly not least ^{link »}

5) mashup products that address important questions about mashups and enterprise security ^{link »}

Are mashups really a major new development model? ^{link »}

The answers to these questions will inevitably shake out as the existing mashups products get applied to real business problems and the industry collectively learns what capabilities and approaches are needed for them to be successful. ^{link »}

Seventeen Mashup Platforms ^{link »}

Apatar is a mashup product designed to help “users and mashup developers to join their on-premise data sources with the Web and Office 2.0 applications without coding.” ^{link »}

BEA’s Aqualogic Pages product is one of the few full-blown end-user mashup tools currently available as a commercial, supported product from a leading software company. ^{link »}

Dapper has been around for a little while now and made last year’s list and the product continues to improve. It’s 100% Web-based both for data mashup creation as well as use. ^{link »}

Applibase’s DataMashups site is one of the more complete and sophisticated Web-based mashup builders available today. What DataMashups sometimes lacks in visual style it more than provides in substance with some of the most compelling examples of real, usable business mashup that I’ve seen. ^{link »}

Extensio is a relatively new entrant in the mashup space and their product takes advantages of the latest developments in Web gadgets and widgets. ^{link »}

Microsoft has entered the situational software arena with a fascinating new mashup development tool called Popfly . One of the best looking mashup tools by far, and also one of the most engaging and easy-to-use ^{link »}

JackBe’s Presto series of enterprise mashup solutions is one of the most complete and compelling solutions available today for organizations that want to move the excitement and results of the consumer mashup story into their day-to-day business. ^{link »}

Kapow is the one of the most venerable — and capable — data mashup platforms on the market. With both an open community known as OpenKapow as well as a powerful desktop-based graphic mashup builder, Kapow has some of the best performing and most stable capabilities in the mashup world. ^{link »}

Proto is another interested new mashup development platform that claims to bring “a fresh look and industrial-strength desktop application development to knowledge workers.” ^{link »}

IBM’s QEDWiki is one of the most impressive mashup platforms presently available and is the de facto poster child for how the end-user development model of enterprise mashups might look. ^{link »}

From the company with the name that looks like a typo but is really a semi-obscure programmer’s reference, \n software’s RSSBus takes the Yahoo! Pipes school thought to building data mashups. ^{link »}

While genuine open source mashup solutions are still rare, SnapLogic manages to provide a solution that delivers a community-based data mashup server that can create the inputs needed for visual mashups. ^{link »}

SOA Express from StrikeIron is one of those mashups tools that is the exception that proves the rule. ^{link »}

Teqlo is a different concept in mashups and one that I’ve been tracking for a while. Based on a kind of Web 3.0 concept,Teqlo provides a mashup development service that can largely let an application build itself. ^{link »}

One of the highest profile mashup tools available today, Yahoo! Pipes is primarily a data mashup, not a user interface mashup tool. ^{link »}

WSO2 Mashup Server is yet another data mashup service that provides the a bility to compose and recompose services into forms that are more consumable. Specifically, the Mashup Server says it can provide “human-consumable results through a variety of user interfaces including Web pages, portals, e-mail, Instant Messenger service, Short Message Service (SMS), etc.” ^{link »}

Google Mashup Editor (GME) ^{link »}

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