The IBM Mashup Center is an

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enterprise

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that enables the rapid creation, sharing, and discovery of reusable

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building blocks ( widgets, feeds, mashups) that can be easily assembled into new applications or leveraged within existing applications.

Features

The IBM Mashup Center is designed to help users at all skill levels create simple

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s from existing information sources by dragging and dropping widgets onto the page, and then wiring them together on-the-glass. The tool includes a Mashup Builder to assemble mashups, and a set of out-of-the-box, business-ready widgets that jump-start mashup creation and enhanced

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options, such as charting. Users can extend their mashup environment by incorporating custom developed widgets provided by IT, widgets available on the external IBM Mashup Catalog, or widgets from across the Web, including any of the thousands of

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. Once a mashup is assembled, it can be shared. Visual tools are provided that allow end users to define what users or groups can view or edit their various pages. Mashups can also be published to the catalog, where other users can easily reuse them. The IBM Mashup Center V2.0. contains a set of new capabilities for the delivery of mashup applications and widgets,IBM Mashup Center 2.0 Trial Offer
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tool for simple widget creation, new and enhanced

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widgets, and a new feature called "spaces" that allows users to

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build and share multi-page enterprise mashups.

References

External links

Hinchcliffe & Company: IBM and Enterprise Mashups

Lotus Greenhouse
- a web site where the public can test-drive Lotus collaboration products free of charge (registration required).
Amazon Web Services Developer Community: IBM Mashup Center 2.0 AMI

Channel Web: Is Web 2.0 Business Ready?

IBM to release enterprise mashup tool , Developer World – InfoWorld

Integrating IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Mashup Center Software White Paper

Six high-level benefits of enterprise mashups
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