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Denodo Enhances Data Mashup Platform
2/14/2008
Denodo Technologies this week released the latest version of its flagship platform to create enterprise "data mashups." The Palo Alto, CA-based enterprise software maker is billing the release as "the industry's only unified data integration platform."
The Denodo Platform is designed to access, extract, and merge data across any digital source.
"Enterprise data mashups use the innovativeness of mashups, which are about bringing disparate types of information together to create data services for SOAs that can be leveraged across the enterprise in traditional applications, new custom applications, or in composite applications," said Suresh Chandrasekaran, Denodo's vice president of marketing. "We are very much an infrastructure layer in an enterprise. The platform builds relevance across structured, unstructured, and Web data sources to allow organizations to combine and query data sources in ways that were not possible before."
The Denodo Platform is used to integrate data across application and organizational silos for federated data views. It allows users to extract information from the Web to feed other business applications, to structure unstructured and semi-structured data and semantically relate them to enterprise repositories and applications. It also helps to create and manage automated Web processes to provide a more agile approach to application and B2B integration.
The platform is also billed as a tool for constructing new business applications that integrate Web and enterprise data with business processes, which is Denodo's definition of an enterprise data mashup.
"Mashup" has emerged as the buzzword of the Web 2.0 world. However, as an enterprise trend, these lightweight, strategic Web apps that combine content from more than one source have yet to gain any real traction, said Anthony Bradley, research director on the applications architecture team at Gartner.
"There's really no such thing as a 'data mashup,'" Bradley said. "'Mashup' is the term du jour. This is about companies jumping on a term bandwagon. What Denodo is offering is data integration."
Gartner uses three criteria to define an enterprise mashup, Bradley explained:
- All of the data is externally sourced (you pull info into your application from Google Maps, for example);
- The technologies are Web-based (HTTP, JASON, RSS, XML, ADAM, etc.), resulting in a browser-based application; and
- The mashup application is a composite application, such that the source applications are readily apparent (you can look at the mashup and see that you're using info from Google Maps).
"That gets away from data integration, where you're normalizing or distilling everything," Bradley said.
Companies like Nexaweb,
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