IBM® Mashup Center V3.0 continues to expand upon the robust innovative and flexible features that help accelerate how organizations surface new information insights within existing infrastructures for fast results, lower costs, and increased productivity, delivering the following new capabilities and benefits:
- Better alignment with IT infrastructure through more security and administrative controls
- Reduce time to value through simplified data access and better leverage of security infrastructure
- Increase usage options with improved data update features
- Easier and faster ways to customize mashup's look and feel
- Greater interoperability and expanded use of mashups with existing enterprise investments
IBM Mashup Center V3.0 is an easy-to-use enterprise mashup platform, supporting rapid integration and delivery of information characterized by dynamically assembled, reusable web applications - with the management, security, and governance capabilities IT requires. IBM Mashup Center V3.0 continues to expand upon the robust innovative and flexible features that help accelerate how organizations surface new information insights within existing infrastructures for fast results, lower costs, and increased productivity, delivering the following new capabilities and benefits.
Greater interoperability and expanded use of mashups with existing enterprise investments
IBM Mashup Center expands upon the feed publishing options to accommodate third-party gadgets, specialized widgets requirements, and other interfaces. The new 1-click publishing feature within the mashup builder component, makes sharing IBM widgets and OpenSocial Gadgets across software platforms exceptionally easy. Through a simple click, users can now quickly republish enterprise data within widgets more easily to other enterprise applications, including WebSphere® Portal, IBM Cognos, and the Business Space user interface available across in the WebSphere Business Process Management suite of products.
Reduce time to value through simplified data access and better leverage of security infrastructure
IBM Mashup Center provides native support for Cognos Mashup Services allowing users to easily and quickly leverage advanced analytics and business intelligence information within mashups. Additionally, IBM Mashup Center leverages the data models built with InfoSphere Data Architect, InfoSphere Discovery, and Optim Data Growth products allowing users to create feeds from complex data sets by simply selecting related business entities and attributes. Also, IBM Mashup Center now integrates with existing IT Security Architectures such as Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager and CA Site Minder supporting client identity, authorization, and authentication rules and configurations, making security administration and validation seamless. Finally, IBM Mashup Center makes reuse of services oriented architecture (SOA) assets even easier with enhanced WebSphere Registry and Repository (WSRR) integration. IBM Mashup Center now enables users to navigate to the WSSR catalog to search and select SOA assets for use within feed generation.
Increase usage options with improved data update features
IBM Mashup Center now supports updatable feeds through industry standard ATOM Publishing Protocol (APP). Data mashups also support these APP protocols among other Representational State Transfer (REST) services enabling a wide range of usage options within mashup applications. Furthermore, new features in the Lotus® Widget Factory now support data creation, modification, and validation.
Easier and faster ways to customize mashup's look and feel
As organizations begin to more broadly adopt mashups in their existing enterprise infrastructure, the need for a consistent look and feel increases. IBM Mashup Center V3.0 delivers new capabilities to rapidly create and edit themes with popular web editing tools such as Dreamweaver, reuse existing themes from WebSphere Portal, and take advantage of new layouts to rapidly change look and feel.
Better alignment with IT infrastructure through more security and administrative controls
The need for greater security and fine grained control of feeds, widgets, and mashups increases as organizations use mashups more and more for rapid business applications - and make the components of mashups available to other applications. IBM Mashup Center V3.0 delivers significant new capabilities for fine grained version control of feeds and data mashups, and tighter controls on republishing of feeds.
Greater flexibility and options for building mashups
As mashup use increases across organizations, mashup designers want to create their own customized assets such as widgets and feeds. IBM Mashup Center V3.0 delivers new capabilities to give mashup builders more flexibility - to personalize widgets, add widgets from other sources, and even create their own functions in data mashups in minutes for highly customized feeds. Additionally, IBM Mashup Center V3.0 expands support for the latest user interface widgets and controls within Lotus Widget Factory.
IBM Mashup Center V3.0 provides greater interoperability and expanded use of mashups with existing enterprise investments
New data mashup publishing option
IBM Mashup Center expands upon the feed publishing options to accommodate third-party gadgets, specialized widgets requirements, and other interfaces. Data feeds can now be delivered with more types of endpoints and visualizations methods. Technical savvy users can produce formats that include metadata, custom specialized namespaces, and mime types or multiple repeating entries used in popular formats such as Cognos LDX, GeoRSS, Google Data API (GDATA) or the DataSet format used in Microsoft® .NET tooling and frameworks; also supported within IBM Cognos Framework Manager as a data source.
IBM Mashup Center expands upon the feed publishing options to accommodate third-party gadgets, specialized widgets requirements, and other interfaces. Data feeds can now be delivered with more types of endpoints and visualizations methods. Technical savvy users can produce formats that include metadata, custom specialized namespaces, and mime types, or multiple repeating entries used in popular formats such as Cognos LDX, GeoRSS, Google Data API (GDATA), or the DataSet format used in Microsoft .NET tooling and frameworks. The DataSet format is also supported within IBM Cognos Framework Manager as a data source.
New 1-click publishing feature
Sharing widgets across software platforms is now exceptionally easy. When creating a widget, an "Add To" button can optionally be included within the widget design. Users viewing the page with widgets that provide the "Add To" feature can add these widgets and corresponding data to a variety of other interfaces by simply clicking the "Add To" button. Potential target interfaces include WebSphere Portal, IBM Cognos, and the Business Space user interface often found in WebSphere Business Process Management (BPM) solutions such as:
- WebSphere Business Compass V7.0.0.2
- WebSphere Business Monitor V7.0.0.2
- WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V7.0.0.2
- WebSphere Process Server V7.0.0.2
- WebSphere Business Modeler V7.0.0.2
- WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition V7.0.0.2
- WebSphere Business Services Fabric V7.0.0.2
- IBM FileNet® Business Process Manager V4.5.2
- IBM FileNet Content Manager V8.4.2
Seamless user experience with IBM Mashup Center and WebSphere Portal
New integration capabilities with WebSphere Portal, with common client execution support, enable increased support for asset sharing and portability with WebSphere Portal. Through common theme artifacts, layout templates, palette design, common WebDav content store and shared user interface, there is seamless Web Designer experience when navigating between IBM Mashup Center and WebSphere Portal. New support for the iWidget 2.1 specification complements the JSR 168 and 268 specifications found in portlets enabling widgets and portlet common wiring and eventing protocols for portlet pages.
Reduce time to value through simplified data access and better leverage of security infrastructure
Native support for IBM Cognos Mashup Services
Native support for Cognos Mashup Services enables users to easily and quickly leverage advanced analytics and business intelligence information within IBM Mashup Center. By unlocking and repurposing information from Cognos, business intelligence content can be extended to surface new insights. Feeds from report data resident in IBM Cognos can be generated by navigating through the Cognos folders and dashboards within IBM Mashup Center, leveraging the familiar interface of IBM Cognos. This report data can be further augmented and combined with other data feeds delivering new insights and publishing this information to other application interfaces and new users.
Leverage IT data architecture efforts
Many hours are spent in building the right data model and business entities to support business applications. IT can now leverage these efforts in building mashup applications. IBM Mashup Center leverages the data models built with InfoSphere Data Architect, InfoSphere Discovery, and Optim Data Growth products. With the support of these data models, users can create feeds from complex data sets by selecting related business entities and attributes without being stalled by determining the advanced SQL code required to extract the information required. This allows technically savvy users to accelerate time to value for enterprise mashups despite the complex application and SQL logic.
Leverage existing service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets - maximize value of existing investments
IBM Mashup Center makes reuse of SOA assets even easier with enhanced WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) integration. IBM Mashup Center now enables users to navigate to the WSRR catalog to search and select SOA assets for use within feed generation. Through this new function, IBM Mashup Center users can generate feeds from WSRR classifications and WSRR catalog entries. Using the comprehensive metadata within WSRR, users can easily identify appropriate SOA assets for mashup applications.
Provide seamless data access across complex security architectures
IBM Mashup Center now integrates with existing IT security architectures such as Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and CA Site Minder supporting client identity, authorization, and authentication rules and configurations. Using industry standards such as WS-Trust, SAML, or X.509 protocols, IBM Mashup Center can also support identity mapping with this integration. Conforming to an enterprise's security policies and identity management architecture is essential for multitiered solutions like those enabled by IBM Mashup Center. Furthermore, IBM Mashup Center supports Trusted Context connections to IBM DB2® by passing client identity to the database from the client based authorization. With this feature, mashup applications can leverage the label-based access control (LBAC) features within IBM DB2.
Increase usage options with improved data update features
Increased database flexibility with managed collections
Managed collections deliver a new set of services in support of data updates for relational database sources. IBM Mashup Center users can register database tables for these managed update services. Once registered, permissions on the services can then be assigned to users. This feature delivers an industry-standard protocol ATOM Publishing Protocol (APP) for the data updates using a lightweight fashion. Managed collections can be utilized in a custom widget or within a Data Mashup.
More power and control with actionable data mashups
Data mashups now support data modification operations such as managed collections and other popular REST service protocols. Data mashups can now change underlying data through transformation, combination, and augmentation within underlying services and repositories.
New database features within Lotus Widget Factory
Widget developers can now generate and populate relational database tables for creating new applications that do not rely on existing data. This support includes facilities for automatic creation of the application server data source which increases productivity.
When designing widgets, Widget Factory provides a new properties view to easily identify required input fields and configure custom validation and associated error messages. New group labeling capabilities provides even more user interface flexibility with enhanced multi-column select and options that let you hide or sort the data.
Easier and faster ways to customize mashups look and feel
As organization begin to use mashups more broadly in their existing enterprise infrastructure, the need for integrated look and feel increases. Mashup Center V3.0 delivers new capabilities to rapidly create and edit themes with popular web editing tools such as Dreamweaver, reuse existing themes from WebSphere Portal, and take advantage of new layouts to rapidly change look and feel.
New WebDav support and theme architecture
Within IBM Mashup Center, users can select themes, skins, and page layouts. Each theme contains several skins. Themes provide the navigation, appearance, including colors, fonts, and images that surround the widgets on the page. Skins define the look and feel of the widgets that are included onto the mashup page. Skins essentially wrap the widgets and define the menu icons and colors of the widget.
Now in IBM Mashup Center V3.0, themes identify which layout templates are available and then rely on these page layout templates to define layout of the mashup page. IBM Mashup Center provides several page layouts templates enabling users to quickly lay out the page in a few clicks. Now in V3.0, these layout templates are extensible through simple HTML and Javascript so that layout templates can quickly be created.
New WebDav content store support enables web designers to add these layout templates, themes, and skins into IBM Mashup Center easily, via a Web address known as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). WebDav enables popular Web editing tools to publish these user elements to IBM Mashup Center. Administrators and designers now have the ability to make changes and see the results immediately without recycling any mashup applications.
Better alignment with IT infrastructure through enhanced security and administrative controls
New data mashup revision control
IBM Mashup Center supports revision control allowing data mashups, REST services, or feed definitions to quickly and easily be reverted to the specific revision the user needs. Users can specify new revisions and provide descriptions to the revisions to help identify what change was made.
New data mashup republish role
The data mashup capability within IBM Mashup Center allows administrators and developers greater control over content republishing. Data mashups can now be optionally enabled with the republish role. By enabling the republish role, administrators and developers can exercise control and governance by establishing which users are allowed to publish data mashups and reuse feeds.
Enhanced widget and theme personalization
IBM Mashup Center now supports multiple layers of personalization for both widgets and themes. The new capability provides flexibility and control by allowing a user to define who can personalize at what level, helping to deliver the right information and applications to end users at the right time.
Common administration console
Now administrators have one area to manage proxy information if there is a need. Additionally, IBM Mashup Center supports NT LAN Manager based authentication for the proxy server authentication leveraging users and permissions already established within their infrastructure. Within this interface, IBM Mashup Center introduces more control over how the underlying database is accessed. IBM Mashup Center allows administrators to configure how the feed sources will connect to the database via JDBC parameters. Administrators can set vendor-specific parameters or even add other database drivers.
Greater flexibility and customization options for building mashups
IBM Mashup Center V3.0 delivers new capabilities to give mashup builders more flexibility - to minimize widgets, add widgets from other sources, and even create their own functions in data mashups for highly customized feeds. Additionally, IBM Mashup Center expands support for the latest user interface widgets and controls.
Lotus Widget Factory 2.0
Lotus Widget Factory 2.0 can help you supercharge your delivery of custom exceptional web experiences that require rich, highly interactive user interfaces. New Lotus Widget Factory 2.0 features include:
- Richer applications with expanded support for the latest, advanced Dojo toolkit user interface widgets and controls
- Advanced interactive applications via skinning capabilities that minimize or eliminate page flicker
- New automation features for rapid construction of fully functional applications from relational databases
- New and enhanced visual application development features for faster simpler application construction
- Improved remote development and deployment support for remote servers running on-premises or in the cloud
- Tighter integration with common themes found in IBM Mashup Center and IBM WebSphere Portal
User defined functions for data mashups
IBM Mashup Center supports user defined functions (UDF) for data transformations within data mashups. This allows mashups to leverage specialized functionality through Java™ extensions. Additionally, administrators can easily incorporate UDF packages into the environment without restarting the server through the administration console.
New widget corral
The widget corral contains hidden widgets that can be incorporated into mashups. These hidden widgets now deliver a "view" mode to provide insight and detailed information on how the mashup is working.
OpenSocial gadget support
IBM Mashup Center V3.0 expands on using widgets from third parties with OpenSocial gadgets. The large, public repository of OpenSocial gadgets are leveraged quickly and easily within IBM Mashup Center. Users can define the interoperability between IBM widgets and OpenSocial via IBM Mashup Center events and wiring, and define preferences for these gadgets. Additionally, OpenSocial gadgets can utilize the new 1-click publishing feature now available within Mashup Center V3.0.
Planning information
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IBM includes one year of Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) with each program license acquired. The initial period of Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option, if available.Packaging
IBM Mashup Center will be distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution (ESD).
IBM Mashup Center media package is distributed in one package with the following:
- IBM Mashup Center product CDs
- Softcopy product documentation including readme files are included on the product CDs
- The License Information form number for IBM Mashup Center is L-TRRJ-85NKUP.
Security, auditability, and control
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