![]() ![]() This change was prompted by users saying, " 'Build the applications for me,' and people see how they want to continue using SOA to expand out and integrate with their infrastructure," he said. IBM is in essence "flipping" much of its traditional marketing around SOA, which began with using Web services for back-end integration and eventually reusing the services to build new applications, Smith said. Mashups can be used to help personnel in a company's lines of business more easily link different Web-services-enabled pieces of a business process in order to more quickly build an application, he added. For many companies, mashups are seen as the "last mile" in building a service-oriented architecture (SOA), Smith said. In addition, IBM introduced Info 2.0, a new suite of tools for customizing and linking Web and enterprise data into mashups, which are applications created by linking different data sources, such as Google Maps and weather reports. For example, a user can begin a chat session from within a community or a blog and share the information with others by adding a transcript of the chat that can be accessed by other Lotus applications, IBM said. The Connections tool includes Web 2.0 components like bookmarking and support for social communities, the company said. IBM today also announced that Lotus Connections is now available. In addition, the company announced plans to add a beta plug-in to support Microsoft Outlook for Lotus users this summer. Support for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers. Watson Explorer News Explorer Watson Explorer is a technology platform that accesses and analyzes trends, patterns and relationships in. ![]()
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