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But why are enterprise mashups important?

I've had discussions with a number of enterprise architects currently working in the industry about this and I do see a common theme in many of the IT requests they get these days.  There seems to be considerable pent-up demand for smaller, custom applications in large numbers.  The solution space around large enterprise apps is increasingly well-bounded; almost all enterprises today already have their mainline IT systems well developed and evolved.  The remaining IT projects are often the ones in which the investment for traditional tools and processes would not justify the return.  And based on these anecdotal discussions, there seems to be a sort of Long Tail of IT software demand, something both Rod Boothby and I have been discussing this year.  If true, it is just possible that there is a vast amount of untapped value left in IT yet.  We just need tools to access it.

 Enterprise Mashups Featuers and Cutaway

The main attraction of mashups is that they have the potential for self-service in that end-users can theoretically create them.  They also perform integration in the browser.  This provides a sort of safe "sandbox" where users can experiment safely with powerful tools without affecting the traditional IT development, deployment, and support processes.   And presumably, enterprise mashups tools would provide automatic versioning, security, and other needed enterprise software qualities. 

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I've had discussions with a number of enterprise architects currently working in the industry about this and I do see a common theme in many of the IT requests they get these days. There seems to be considerable pent-up demand for smaller, custom applications in large numbers.

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I've had discussions with a number of enterprise architects currently working in the industry about this and I do see a common theme in many of the IT requests they get these days. There seems to be considerable pent-up demand for smaller, custom applications in large numbers.

Highlighted by fichter

I've had discussions with a number of enterprise architects currently working in the industry about this and I do see a common theme in many of the IT requests they get these days. There seems to be considerable pent-up demand for smaller, custom applications in large numbers.

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