http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/05/23/mashups-a-new-industry-is-born/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:38:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/05/23/mashups-a-new-industry-is-born/comment-page-1/#comment-158642 Ian Tomlin Sat, 24 May 2008 08:53:59 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=912#comment-158642 Joe - Not sure I'm convinced about the reasons highlighted in your articel for slow adoption. The tools are there today, the challenge we're seeing lies in 'norms of behavior' in IT procurement and the belief systems that exist around the IT department that you can't do 'serious IT' solutions with agile software. The only way to prove to industry that there are better ways of delivering enterprise IT is through compelling case studies. Since 2006 that's precisely what we've been doing with Encanvas. The key ingredient is critical mass of applications dexterity. If you can't deliver data source integration and ETL, data management, portal and mobile deployment, reporting and search, content management, GIS, visualization etc. out of the box, you may as well stay at home. Joe – Not sure I’m convinced about the reasons highlighted in your articel for slow adoption. The tools are there today, the challenge we’re seeing lies in ‘norms of behavior’ in IT procurement and the belief systems that exist around the IT department that you can’t do ’serious IT’ solutions with agile software. The only way to prove to industry that there are better ways of delivering enterprise IT is through compelling case studies. Since 2006 that’s precisely what we’ve been doing with Encanvas. The key ingredient is critical mass of applications dexterity. If you can’t deliver data source integration and ETL, data management, portal and mobile deployment, reporting and search, content management, GIS, visualization etc. out of the box, you may as well stay at home.

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