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| Free monster mashup for business
Businesses seeking an easy way to create useful “mashups” can get a free preview of IBM’s QEDWiki | |||
| 8 Feb 2007
: Businesses seeking an easy way to create useful “mashups” can get a free preview of IBM’s QEDWiki. Situational applications or “mashups” blend external information and web services -- news feeds, weather reports, maps, traffic conditions -- with internal content and services, instantly "mashing" them together. IBM is offering the preview on its alphaWorks site, allowing users to evaluate the technology in actual business situations and provide feedback. Based on Web 2.0 technologies, QEDWiki provides a framework that uses information from the Web and wiki technology to allow people to create a customized application in less than five minutes. For example, many businesses rely on weather conditions to plan their daily operations. QEDWiki can help a logistics manager plan the most efficient way to send rock salt, shovels and snow blowers to the Northeast to stock the store in time for a forecasted snow storm. By using the enterprise mashup maker, the manager can "drag and drop" weather reports, online maps and the company's national hardware inventory data into an application that will show which stores will be affected by the storm and which stores need inventory. alphaWorks is IBM's online community that provides early adopters with access to new and emerging software technology from IBM research and development labs around the world. "By offering QEDWiki on alphaWorks, IBM is enabling organizations to test drive the enterprise mashup technology and provide valuable feedback to help shape it for future use in the mainstream business arena," said Kathy Mandelstein, director of Worldwide Developer Programs for IBM. |
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