B's Blog

Hey there, did anyone attend the Lotus Mashups online webinar today? I'm not sure what to really think about the new Lotus Mashups, it seems like a cool idea but still a little to complicated for the average business user. Also, I think there may be a concern around opening up backend information for users to access. It seems to me that everything would have to be locked down and read-only for Mashups to be truly accepted by IT organizations, yet part of the reason that Mashups could be very powerful would be the ability to interface and change the data that is stored in systems such as SAP. It's a toss up to me as to how useful Mashups will actually be without changing backend data, but in the same respect how many IT organizations will actually trust their business users to access and change this data? I guess we'll see how it all plays out in the next year or so.

Signing off,
B