A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

Will Mashups Grow Up In PLM?

Will Mashups Grow Up In PLM?
olegshilovitsky
olegshilovitsky
23 December, 2009 | 1 min for reading

Short prompt to think about before Holiday break. Mashups. First coming to us with the world of Web 2.0 and dynamic web site content, mashup becomes an interesting function in many web applications. I think mashups are still very tiny business industry, but this technology was very successful in my view for some of applications like Google Map and not only.

Here is Wikipedia definition of Mashup:
In web development, a mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data. An example of a mashup is the use of cartographic data to add location information to real estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct web API that was not originally provided by either source.

You can find some interesting ideas related to Enterprise Mashups and development around that in the recently created Open Mashup Alliance. Take a look on the following white paper:

So, my question today is as following. How do you see Mashup advantages in building of product data services and improvement of PLM applications? In my view, the technological foundation of mashups can be an interesting choice when moving PLM application to become more open and available in the way of online services.

Just my thoughts.
Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
21 January, 2010

I was reading Tech Clarity insight “Evolving Role of ERP and PLM“. The topic of PLM and ERP is not...

22 March, 2012

Let’s talk about Google today. I’ve been writing about Google technologies and Google enterprise efforts quite frequently. One of the...

16 November, 2010

The following announcement came to my attention yesterday. Technia annouces Technia Value Components Release 2010-3 future increase the value of...

1 May, 2017

Electronics and PCB are growing. Almost every product manufactured today has some elements of electronics and PCB board inside. It...

5 August, 2010

Six months ago, I posted “Collaboration Trends or Why I Stopped Using Google Wave?“. After Google’s announcement about Google Wave termination yesterday,...

30 September, 2017

Almost 2 years ago I asked a question – How many PDM systems SOLIDWORKS users need? I counted five PDM systems....

10 August, 2010

In my view, summer time is good for vacations, research papers and strategic projects. During the summer, you are always...

6 September, 2016

Platforms is one the most interesting trends in the modern enterprise software development. Existing engineering software platforms are trailing long list of...

13 October, 2010

In any enterprise software, there is a point of time we are asking the following question – “what APIs are...

Blogroll

To the top