Mashup FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - Presto Mashup Server
- So the only practical limits to what can be used in a mashup setting are the limits that the enterprise attaches to accessing its data, right?
- What BPM tools are compatible with Presto and are there any cloud based BPM?
- Are you putting Excel in the cloud, when you say repository? Where is this Repository? Google Docs, SharePoint?
- In the case of Excel sheets spread all over the department/organization, do you install servers in individual desktops?
- As users create mashups, can this be difficult for IT to manage? Errors occur, changes do too. In a mashup, how does IT know who consumes the mashups and alert them?
- So the only practical limits to what can be used in a mashup setting are the limits that the enterprise attaches to accessing its data, right?
- I see that this has a direct approach to "temporary" dashboarding... but I feel this is doing more than just populating dashboards...am I right on that assumption?
- If I can deploy to WebSphere, is it a WAR or EAR? Is there an ANT script to repackage the EAR with my JAR? JBoss support?
- Can Presto mashup server can run on top of WebSphere 6.1 and WebLogic application server ?
- Is the Presto server WMI or WBEM enabled for health monitoring purposes?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- Transactional cases: I looked into the links you gave about usage of mashups inside eGovernment applications but I haven't seen any transactional ones. Could you confirm that most of the mashups applications are 99.9% non-transactional ones?
- Have you seen successful mashup deployment on Force.com platform?
- A lot of these use cases seems to be very “read” centric. How many use cases are there for updates of information, and what facilities (if any) are available for assured delivery / “transaction coordination” of the data update?
- Isn’t screen scraping error prone? (It can break very very easily).
- Can Mashup Platforms integrate with a SSO architecture already present in an organization?
- If the tools are for both developers and business users, how is duplication of applications reduced (since we know that the communication between the two communities isn't necessarily 'open')?
- How secure is a system using a Mashup? Is it Hack proof? We are using data from other sources and should not end up sharing that data with hackers.
- Having all these mashup agents running around is really going to affect hit rates and bandwidth; almost like an unintentional denial of service?
- ‘Shadow copy' sounds very interesting – but it raises some IPR challenges unless the data is open source.
- Will you get into how Mashups and Workflow and BPM work together, risks, issues, etc...?
- We cant use XML, a programming language that originated on the internet to give the information metadata, and then use RSS and other languages to stream the data via syndication into one data aggregator.
- The Mashup Server concept looks similar to Portal Server pattern.
- Portals were a big head-ache for our Company. Portals made our elevations times much longer; the upgrades were painful; it had big performance issues, just to name a few of the problems. We invested a lot in time and money into the portal product, then had to backout. We ended up using "tried-n-true" servlet technology to do the same thing. Tell me why a Mashup Platform like Presto will be any different from a maintenance and elevation perspective?
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Is Presto Server able to integrate with Oracle Webcenter / Oracle (BEA) Portal /PeopleSoft - Portal?
- Excel "apps" that is scalable, maintainable and secure could be built with MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) deployment and give the power to end user. Why should we embrace Mashup?
- How much does the use of mashups increase storage need and capacity? It is obviously inherently dependent on how many... and how long they hang around or are for re-use... but is the impact huge?
- For real-time reports, how is Presto handling the high volumes of information flow in terms of pagination of detailed reports or long waiting time-outs to generate a chart? Does it have timing / summarization parameters?
- How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
- Mashups seem well suited for information centric / lightweight BI applications, but how do these solutions evolve over time or provide enterprise capabilities for inclusion of more complex business logic, or support for business processes, rules, event processing, etc.
- I don't understand the BI, we know that excel is THE solution used by the business users to do their job. I have difficulties to see mashups helping in any way?!?
- How does a mashup compare to business intelligence?
- Will the future of BI be mashups rather than the traditional data warehouse, marts, and access tools like cognos.
- I don't see any difference, so far, between SOA and mashups. Many SOA vendors also provide Portals to work with SOA services. (and business users who know the data are responsible for their services).
- Could you explain what is the place of SOA w.r.t. Mashups?
- How does mashups fits in a SOA strategy? I can see that some BPMS have similar capabilities for UI development. I see greater value at a "Composite Application" approach. Is this correct?
- How do I install Presto MediaWiki Plugin?
