IBM Further Opens Mashup Center up to Business Users with 2.0 Update

| Oct 30, 2009 | Application Infrastructure | New Release Assessment

| Analyst: Brad Shimmin

Product Snapshot

Product Name	IBM Mashup Center 2.0
Product Status	Update
Product Type	On Premise Software
Licensing Model	Processor Value Unit (PVU) and Per User
New Features	Support for RESTful services including input support for XML, JSON, Text, HTML and ATOM OpenAjax Alliance Hub v2.0 support, creating a secure widget sandbox for quarantine and isolation of suspect widgets Improved dashboards with visibility into feed dependencies as well as widget and page usage Widget feed policy enhancements including client IP access denial and search pattern filtering to control inbound feeds and outbound information A new development UI (Widget Builder) targeting business users, which supports both wizard-based and graphical and drag and drop widget development methods Deeper integration with Microsoft SharePoint via IBM Content Integrator Support for WS-Security
Target Customer	Mid sized to large enterprises across all vertical markets
Rival Products	Google Mashup Editor, Yahoo! Pipes, Microsoft SharePoint, WSO2 Mashup Server, JackBe Presto, Oracle WebCenter and other products, Kapow Web Data Server, Convertigo Enterprise Mashup Server

Current Perspective Excerpt

IBM's Mashup Center 2.0 is very threatening within the application infrastructure market, owing to its broad applicability across many different development technologies, data sources and developer/composer constituencies.

With this release, IBM has refined its application composition solution, adding a number of back end refinements such as improved visibility into assembled widgets and their interdependencies, new security options to quarantine suspect widgets, support for WS-Security, deeper ties into Microsoft SharePoint (as well as IBM's WebSphere MQ, Filenet P8 and Content Manager solutions) and the ability to consume RESTful services across a number of different XML formats. But these updates simply further what was already a solid foundation that enabled customers to speed application development through the composition of pre-assembled services.

Evaluation Criteria

Services/Support: Threatening

Packaging/Pricing: Competitive

Go-to-Market Strategy: Very Threatening

Product Maturity: Competitive

Market Presence: Threatening

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