Mashup FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - Presto Connectors
- Is there an event driven aspect to your products?
- Are there ample number of adaptors for connecting to legacy systems?
- How can Mashups be applied to Excel sheets that are on desktop? What is the approach to putting an Excel workbook on the web?
- Is there an event driven aspect to your products?
- Is the data that is output by this system, universal? Can I take the data and make more mashups on a variety of systems or does it only work with your software?
- Did you do any data scrubbing from the legacy sources?
- Are there ample number of adaptors for connecting to legacy systems?
- Can you only pull live data in via XLS files, or from SOA, JDBC, API, etc. and if you can, how?
- Would like to see it listening to events via JMS.
- Can we place these mashups in portal pages/pda, if so, how much customization do i need to do?
- Are there any limitations to the amount of services that you can join together?
- Does this technology have connectors to Oracle database 9i?
- How the Mashups are being handled for different devices display capacity (PC, iPhone, Blackberries, etc)?
- How can Mashups, Wikis and CMSs be combined to take advantages of the strengths of each?
- 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.
- Can we mashup two different databases...like SQLServer and Siebel ? I mean is it dependent on a particular technology?
- Can Presto create mashups with unstructured data (i.e. word doc checked into a SharePoint site)?
- Will it cost a whole bunch to connect to SAP systems?
- 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?
- Do you have connectors to sources such as OLAP cubes?
- How does it integrate with SAP ERP and SAP BI? Do we need additional connectors to talk to SAP?
- Our firm is not going to go out and scrape info from the web. How about an example where internally we can mashup mainframe data, existing java webservice calls via SOAP, and data from an excel spreadsheet! Is this possible with the mashup platform?
- 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?!?
- Can mashups access historical data to show trending, or do aggregations for large volumes of data?
